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Social Choice and Defeasible Reasoning

I’m the author of the article on “Defeasible Reasoning” in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. In revising my entry this month, I came across a fascinating idea proposed in 1991 by Sten Lindström (in an article first published in Theoria in 2022). As I argue in my article, the best approach to formalizing a defeasibleContinue reading “Social Choice and Defeasible Reasoning”

Strategic and Insincere Voting

Real-World Examples of Voting Paradoxes William H. Riker, Liberalism against Populism (Waveland Press, 1982). 1912 US Presidential race Popular vote: 42% Wilson 27% Roosevelt 24% Taft Thanks to the plurality rule, Wilson won (the Electoral College didn’t make a significant difference in this case. Let’s suppose that the voters formed three blocs with the followingContinue reading “Strategic and Insincere Voting”