Abstract
The rationality of individual agents is secured for the most part by their make-up or design. Some agents, however - in particular, human beings - rely on the intentional exercise of thinking or reasoning in order to promote their rationality further; this is the activity that is classically exemplified in Rodin's sculpture of Le Penseur. Do group agents have to rely on reasoning in order to maintain a rational profile? Recent results in the theory of judgment aggregation show that under a range of plausible conditions they do. In a slogan: group agents are made, not born.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 495-519 |
| Number of pages | 25 |
| Journal | Dialectica |
| Volume | 61 |
| Issue number | 4 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2007 |
| Externally published | Yes |