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Is Arrow’s Theorem interesting?
Suppose a group of people has to make a choice from a set S of options. Each member of the group ranks the options in S from best to worst. A “voting system” is a mechanism for aggregati… more →
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Sui Sistemi Elettorali
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wrote 19 hours ago: Dal momento che l’attualità ci spinge a parlare di legge elettorale, voglio presentare alcune … more →
Our Spiritual Unrest 2 – David Malouf
wrote 1 week ago: For Condorcet, as for the Plato-Protagoras of the Epimetheus story, Man is driven; there is no end t … more →
Condorcet's Omlette - Sermon 1st March 2009
wrote 3 months ago: Genesis 9:8-17 Psalm 25:1-10 1 Peter 3:18-22 Mark 1:9-15 Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de … more →
Ghosts of Dijonettes Past
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wrote 3 months ago: There’s a book in the Condorcet Center (our home base) that contains little bits of advice and … more →
Condercet on Women's Rights
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wrote 8 months ago: While preparing for class I learned something tonight I hadn’t known. Condorcet, one of those … more →
wrote 9 months ago: SurveyMonkey is inviting survey respondents to help predict the results of the next presidential ele … more →
Preferences + Utility
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wrote 1 year ago: CHALLENGE: I have described rational choice. Remember, the purpose of a challenge is to provide peop … more →
Who's #1?
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wrote 1 year ago: First, apologies for this teaser of a title! This post is not about who is #1 in whatever category y … more →
This is It
wrote 1 year ago: I’m in the midst of E. O. Wilson’s Consilience: the Unity of Knowledge, preparing for my long-procra … more →
Searching for the Self in Modern European Thought
wrote 1 year ago: The evolution of the modern Self has been a convoluted process. At times, under the influence of the … more →
wrote 1 year ago: Les amis de la vérité sont ceux qui la cherchent et non ceux qui se vantent de l’avoir trouvée … more →
Metric System Use in the World
wrote 1 year ago: In the map, areas shaded green show where the metric system is used where as the areas in grey use t … more →
Is Arrow's Theorem interesting?
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wrote 1 year ago: Suppose a group of people has to make a choice from a set S of options. Each member of the group ra … more →
An analytical discussion comparing the views of the French writer, Marquis de Condorcet and the Scottish writer, David Hume in regard to their beliefs on the concept of knowledge of the Enlightenment.
wrote 1 year ago: Both Condorcet (1743 – 1794) and Hume (1711 – 1776) were significant writers of the Enlightenment; t … more →
Condorcet on French mathematics as underdog
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wrote 2 years ago: Quite striking and strange for a modern mathematician to read the following, from Condorcet’s … more →
Condorcet was an interesting dude
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wrote 2 years ago: I knew about him only in relation with the voting paradox. But he also wrote The Future Progress of … more →
Collective decision making, just like the bees
wrote 2 years ago: What can we learn from how social animals make decisions? From The Economist, Feb 13th 2009: Decisio … more →
"Undoing" multiculturalism
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wrote 2 years ago: Houdon's Condorcet, 1785 In my last blog, I summarized those who benefited from the institution … more →
Capstone Proposal
wrote 2 years ago: The time has come for me to submit the proposal for my Capstone Senior Project. I have decided that … more →
