Collective Rationality and Collective Reasoning

by Christopher McMahon

Book Overview

This book examines the issue of rational cooperation, especially cooperation between people with conflicting moral commitments. Can such cooperation--the choice made by a group and the decision by each member to contribute to that choice-- be understood as guided by reason? Can the activity of reasoning itself take a cooperative form? The book is distinctive in offering an account of what people can accomplish by reasoning together, of the role of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521804620
• ISBN13: 9780521804622
• Release Date: August 2001
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"