Studying deliberated preferences

Dans le cadre des réunions régulières autour de la thématique « philosoph-IA », nous recevons O. Cailloux, MCF à l'Université Paris-Dauphine, pour un séminaire exceptionnel.

Titre : Studying deliberated preferences

Résumé : Democratic institutions increasingly employ deliberative processes such as citizens’ assemblies to elicit considered rather than immediate preferences. Some philosophical approaches likewise justify their legitimacy by appeal to a reflective equilibrium aligning with their conclusions. Yet existing accounts lack systematic criteria for determining when deliberation is adequate or successful. This work formalizes deliberated preferences through a single observable relation with clear semantics, overcoming limitations of prior definitions. I will formally define the concept of theories of deliberated preferences and their desirable properties, show that a notion of falsification is necessary to address reduced observability, and establish possibility and impossibility results.