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Relevance rides again? Aggregation and local relevance
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van Gils, Aart and Tomlin, Patrick (2020) Relevance rides again? Aggregation and local relevance. In: Sobel, David and Vallentyne, Peter and Wall, Steven, (eds.) Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy. Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy Series, 6 . Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198852636
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198852636.003.0008
Abstract
Often institutions or individuals are faced with decisions where not all claims can be satisfied. Sometimes, these claims will be of differing strength. In such cases, it must be decided whether or not weaker claims can be aggregated in order to collectively defeat stronger claims. Many are attracted to a view, which this chapter calls Limited Aggregation, where this is sometimes acceptable and sometimes not. A new version of this view, Local Relevance, has recently emerged. This chapter seeks to explore and evaluate this view. In order to do so, the chapter offers a more precise interpretation of this basic approach, calling it ‘Sequential Claims-Matching’. The chapter shows how Sequential Claims-Matching avoids problems that dog other Limited Aggregation views but suffers from difficulties and ambiguities of its own. In particular, the chapter shows that it is hard to accommodate some core Limited Aggregation intuitions around tie-break cases within the Local Relevance view.
Item Type: | Book Item | ||||||
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > B Philosophy (General) J Political Science > JA Political science (General) |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Philosophy | ||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Political science -- Philosophy, Complexity (Philosophy), Relevance, Ethics, Utilitarianism | ||||||
Series Name: | Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy Series | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy | ||||||
Publisher: | Oxford University Press | ||||||
Place of Publication: | Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY | ||||||
ISBN: | 9780198852636 | ||||||
Book Title: | Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy | ||||||
Editor: | Sobel, David and Vallentyne, Peter and Wall, Steven | ||||||
Official Date: | March 2020 | ||||||
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Volume: | 6 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1093/oso/9780198852636.003.0008 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | "This material was originally published in Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy edited by David Sobel; Peter Vallentyne; Steven Wall, and has been reproduced by permission of Oxford University Press https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198852636.003.0008 For permission to reuse this material, please visit http://global.oup.com/academic/rights." | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 20 March 2019 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 1 March 2022 | ||||||
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