Introduction to judgment aggregation

and Ben Polak Introduction to judgment aggregation

This introduces the symposium on judgment aggregation. The theory of judgment aggregation asks how several individuals’judgments on some logically connected propositions can be aggregated into consistent collective judgments. The aim of this introduction is to show how ideas from the familiar theory of preference aggregation can be extended to this more general case. We …rst translate a proof o...

INTRODUCTION TO JUDGMENT AGGREGATION BY CHRISTIAN LIST and BEN POLAK COWLES FOUNDATION PAPER NO. 1297 COWLES FOUNDATION FOR RESEARCH IN ECONOMICS

This introduces the symposium on judgment aggregation. The theory of judgment aggregation asks how several individuals’ judgments on some logically connected propositions can be aggregated into consistent collective judgments. The aim of this introduction is to show how ideas from the familiar theory of preference aggregation can be extended to this more general case. We first translate a proof...

An Introductory Course to Judgment Aggregation

Reaching some form of consensus is often necessary for autonomous agents that want to coordinate their actions or otherwise engage in joint activities. One way to reach a consensus is by aggregating individual information, such as decisions, beliefs, preferences and constraints. Judgment aggregation is a social choice method, which generalises voting , that studies the aggregation of individual...

An Introduction to Belief Merging and its Links with Judgment Aggregation

Introduction to Judgment Aggregation

The present notes are an improved version of the notes that served as teaching materials for the course Introduction to Judgment Aggregation given at the 23rd European Summer School on Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI’11, Ljubljana). The notes are structured as follows: Section 1 introduces the field of judgment aggregation, its relations to preference aggregation and some formal prelimi...