List, Christian 
ORCID: 0000-0003-1627-800X
(2008)
Distributed cognition: a perspective from social choice theory.
In: Albert, Max, Schmidtchen, Dieter and Voigt, Stefan, (eds.)
Scientific Competition: Theory and Policy.
Conferences on New Political Economy (25).
Mohr Siebeck (Firm), Tübingen, Germany, pp. 285-308.
ISBN 9783161494130
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Abstract
Distributed cognition refers to processes which are (i) cognitive and (ii) distributed across multiple agents or devices rather than performed by a single agent. Distributed cognition has attracted interest in several fields ranging from sociology and law to computer science and the philosophy of science. In this paper, I discuss distributed cognition from a social-choice-theoretic perspective. Drawing on models of judgment aggregation, I address two questions. First, how can we model a group of individuals as a distributed cognitive system? Second, can a group acting as a distributed cognitive system be ‘rational’ and ‘track the truth’ in the outputs it produces? I argue that a group’s performance as a distributed cognitive system depends on its ‘aggregation procedure’ – its mechanism for aggregating the group members’ inputs into collective outputs – and I investigate the properties of an aggregation procedure that matter.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
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| Official URL: | http://www.mohr.de/index_e.html |
| Additional Information: | © 2008 Christian List |
| Divisions: | Government Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method CPNSS |
| Subjects: | J Political Science > JA Political science (General) B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology |
| Date Deposited: | 17 Jul 2008 14:16 |
| Last Modified: | 15 Sep 2023 09:26 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/19606 |
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