Million dollar questions: why deliberation is more than information pooling

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dc.contributor.authorHoek, Danielen
dc.contributor.authorBradley, Richarden
dc.date.accessioned2023-01-12T13:21:23Zen
dc.date.available2023-01-12T13:21:23Zen
dc.date.issued2022-03-29en
dc.date.updated2023-01-11T20:47:57Zen
dc.description.abstractModels of collective deliberation often assume that the chief aim of a deliberative exchange is the sharing of information. In this paper, we argue that an equally important role of deliberation is to draw participants’ attention to pertinent questions, which can aid the assembly and processing of distributed information by drawing deliberators’ attention to new issues. The assumption of logical omniscience renders classical models of agents' informational states unsuitable for modelling this role of deliberation. Building on recent insights from psychology, linguistics and philosophy about the role of questions in speech and thought, we propose a different model in which beliefs are treated as answers directed at specific questions. Here, questions are formally represented as partitions of the space of possibilities and individuals’ information states as sets of questions and corresponding partial answers to them. The state of conversation is then characterised by individuals’ information together with the questions under discussion, which can be steered by various deliberative inputs. Using this model, deliberation is then shown to shape collective decisions in ways that classical models cannot capture, allowing for novel explanations of how group consensus is achieved.en
dc.description.versionPublished versionen
dc.format.extent20 page(s)en
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dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1007/s00355-022-01392-9en
dc.identifier.eissn1432-217Xen
dc.identifier.issn0176-1714en
dc.identifier.orcidHoek, Daniel [0000-0002-5331-2409]en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/113144en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherSpringeren
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dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en
dc.subjectEROTETIC THEORYen
dc.subjectDEMOCRACYen
dc.subjectBELIEFen
dc.titleMillion dollar questions: why deliberation is more than information poolingen
dc.title.serialSocial Choice and Welfareen
dc.typeArticle - Refereeden
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