Rational Consensus in Science and Society: A Philosophical and Mathematical Study

One: A Philosophical Theory of Rational Consensus.- 1. Consensus and Philosophical Issues.- 2. The Elementary Method and Consensual Probability.- 3. The Elementary Method and Social Choice.- 4. The Extended Model.- 5. Applications of the Consensus Model.- Two: The Formal Foundations of Rational Consensus.- 6. Allocation and Ordering by Weighted Arithmetic Averaging - An Axiomatic Approach.- 7. Convergence to Consensus - The Elementary Model.- 8. Convergence to Consensus - The Extended Model.- References.- Index of Names.- Index of Subjects.