The Logical Space of Democracy

1 The Logical Space of Democracy

Abstract: Can we design a perfect democratic decision procedure? Condorcet famously observed that majority rule, our paradigmatic democratic procedure, has some desirable properties, but sometimes produces inconsistent outcomes. Revisiting Condorcet’s insights in light of recent work on the aggregation of judgments, I show that there is a conflict between three initially plausible requirements ...

Logical Patterns in Space

In this paper, we revive the topological interpretation of modal logic, turning it into a general language of patterns in space. In particular, we deene a notion of bisimulation for topological models that compares diier-ent visual scenes. We reene the comparison by introducing Ehrenfeucht-Fra ss e style games between patterns in space. Finally, we consider spatial languages of increased logica...

On the open-endedness of logical space

On the conception of metaphysical possibility that I prefer, a metaphysical possibility is simply a coherent way for the world to be. That is a substantial view. There are conceptions of metaphysical possibility on which not every coherent way for the world to be counts as a metaphysical possibility. To illustrate this point, consider a conception of metaphysical possibility based on a simplifi...

Plantinga and the Logical Problem of Evil

Time as a logical space