Abstract Egalitarian considerations play a central role in many areas of social choice theory. Applications egalitarian principles range from ensuring everyone gets an equal share cake when deciding how to divide it, guaranteeing balance with respect gender or ethnicity committee elections. Yet, the approach has received little attention judgment aggregation—a powerful framework for aggregating...

judgment of bankruptcy leads to bankruptcy of merchant. therefore, merchant will be incapable and cannot possess in his asset. various provisions can be found in commercial code, regarding contract’s of bankrupt merchant, which is inconsistent with civil code. article 423 has stipulated that trades of merchant after bankruptcy, in three cases will be void. this position is not consistent with c...

of Medicine and other periodicals over the past decade. Dr. Feinstein's aim is nothing less than to induce doctors to think in new ways. He hopes that one result of his proposed revolution in clinical thinking will restore to clinical medicine the status it has lost owing to the explosive growth of molecular biology. He traces at length the growth and change of clinical investigation in this co...

Judgment aggregation theory generalizes social choice theory by having the aggregation rule bear on judgments of all kinds instead of barely judgments of preference. The paper briefly sums it up, privileging the variant that formalizes judgment by a logical syntax. The theory derives from Kornhauser and Sager’s doctrinal paradox and Pettit’s discursive dilemma, which List and Pettit turned into...

Beyond motivations to achieve particular outcomes, people also have motivations to use particular strategies while pursuing these outcomes. This article integrates research on the latter strategic preferences and discusses the place of such research in the broader investigation of motivated thinking. A review of studies examining the strategic preferences stemming from both motivations for prom...