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  1. Trust No One?Michael Baurmann & Daniel Cohnitz - 2021 - In Sven Bernecker, Amy K. Flowerree & Thomas Grundmann (eds.), The Epistemology of Fake News. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
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  2. Rational Fundamentalism? An Explanatory Model of Fundamentalist Beliefs.Michael Baurmann - 2007 - Episteme 4 (2):150-166.
    Abstract The article sketches a theoretical model which explains how it is possible that fundamentalist beliefs can emerge as a result of an individual rational adaptation to the context of special living conditions. The model is based on the insight that most of our knowledge is acquired by trusting the testimony of some kind of authority. If a social group is characterized by a high degree of mistrust towards the outer society or other groups, then the members of this group (...)
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    Der Markt der Tugend: Recht und Moral in der liberalen Gesellschaft : eine soziologische Untersuchung.Michael Baurmann - 1996 - Mohr Siebeck.
    English summary: A liberal market society is often critized as being a society in which morality and virtues are crowded out by increasing egoism and utility-maximization. Michael Baurmann develops quite a different picture. He shows that anonymous market-relations and competition are by no means the only traits of a liberal society. Freedom of cooperation and association is one of its main characteristics as well. This freedom lays the fundament for the emergence of moral commitment and civil virtues which are needed (...)
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    Meinungsdynamiken in fundamentalistischen Gruppen: Erklärungshypothesen auf der Basis von Simulationsmodellen.Michael Baurmann - 2014 - Analyse & Kritik 36 (1):61-102.
    If we want to understand how fundamentalist group ideologies are established, we have to comprehend the social processes which form the basis of the emergence and distribution of such beliefs. In our paper we present an innovative approach to examining these processes and explaining how they function: with the method of computer-based simulation of opinion formation we develop heuristic explanatory models which help to generate new and interesting hypotheses. The focus is thereby not on individuals and their idiosyncrasies but on (...)
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  5. The Golden Age of the Campfire: Should We Take Our Ancestors Seriously?Michael Baurmann - 2012 - Analyse & Kritik 34 (1):39-50.
    In his book The Ethical Project Philip Kitcher presents an ‘analytical history’ of the development of human ethical practice. According to this history the first ethical norms were launched in the ancient world of the hunters and gatherers and their initial function was to remedy altruism failures. Kitcher wants to show that the emergence of ethical norms can in this case and in general be explained without referring to supernatural causes or philosophical revelation. Furthermore, he claims that the first manifestation (...)
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  6. Die Autoren dieses Heftes.Andreas Balog, Michael Baurmann, Bruno S. Frey, Stefan Hölscher, Norbert Hoerster, Gebhard Kirchgässner, Hartmut Kliemt, Peter Koller, Julian Nida-Rümelin & Ernst Tugendhat - 1992 - Analyse & Kritik 14.
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    A Sociological Speculation about Law and Ethics.Michael Baurmann - 2012 - Analyse & Kritik 34 (2):285-298.
    It is argued that ethics is undergoing a similar development in modern societies as law did in former times. If this development continues, it could be that in the future collective decisions in many areas will be justified by the application of ethical principles just as today judicial decisions are justified by the application of the rules of law. The paper describes some of the remarkable similarities between law and ethics in modern societies and considers possible causes of this development.
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    Begegnungen mit Hans Albert.Michael Baurmann - 2018 - In Giuseppe Franco (ed.), Begegnungen Mit Hans Albert: Eine Hommage. Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden. pp. 35-38.
    Es gab zwei Stationen in meinem akademischen Leben, bei denen Hans Albert prägend und wichtig war: Zum einen habe ich ihn sehr früh als Gegenspieler zur Frankfurter Schule und dann insbesondere zu Jürgen Habermas und seinem gesellschaftstheoretischen und wissenschaftlichen Programm wahrgenommen. Der legendäre Positivismus-Streit hatte mich als jungen Studenten in Frankfurt zunächst auf der Seite „meiner“ Frankfurter gesehen. Aufgrund des damaligen nicht sehr offenen und pluralistischen Klimas an der Frankfurter Universität habe ich mich mit den Vertretern der Frankfurter Schule mehr (...)
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    Demokratie aus Gewohnheit? Ein Essay über die stabilisierende Wirkung des Nichtwissens.Michael Baurmann - 2018 - In Karl Marker, Annette Schmitt & Jürgen Sirsch (eds.), Demokratie und Entscheidung. Beiträge zur Analytischen Politischen Theorie. Springer. pp. 263-275.
    Bei der akademischen Feier zu seinem achtzigsten Geburtstag ist der Politikwissenschaftler Kurt Shell gefragt worden, ob er aufgrund seiner großen akademischen Expertise und jahrzehntelangen persönlichen Erfahrung mit dem Niedergang und Wiedererstarken von Demokratien ein Resümee ziehen könne, auf welchen Hauptfaktoren seiner Meinung nach stabile Demokratien beruhen.
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    “Führer befiehl, wir folgen dir!” Charismatic Leaders in Extremist Groups.Michael Baurmann, Gregor Betz & Rainer Cramm - 2017 - In Thomas Christiano, Ingrid Creppell & Jack Knight (eds.), Morality, Governance, and Social Institutions: Reflections on Russell Hardin. Cham: Springer Verlag. pp. 259-287.
    If we want to understand how extremist group ideologies are established, we have to comprehend the social processes which form the basis of the emergence and distribution of such beliefs. In our chapter, we present an innovative approach to examining these processes and explaining how they function: with the method of computer-based simulation of opinion formation, we develop heuristic explanatory models which help to generate new and interesting hypotheses. The focus is thereby not on individuals and their idiosyncrasies but on (...)
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    Homo Ökonomikus als Idealtypus. Oder: Das Dilemma des Don Juan.Michael Baurmann - 2008 - Analyse & Kritik 30 (2):555-573.
    Neither the model of homo oeconomicus nor Max Weber’s concept of the ideal type have a good reputation these days - to try to combine the two does not seem a promising idea, therefore. It could result in the attempt to tie two sinking ships together - to borrow a metaphor of Alasdair MacIntyre’s which he used in a different context as a comment on the programme of Analyse & Kritik 30 years ago. But perhaps the reasons for the bad (...)
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    Künstliche Intelligenz in den Sozialwissenschaften: Expertensysteme als Instrumente der EinsteUungsforschung.Michael Baurmann & Dieter Mans - 1984 - Analyse & Kritik 6 (2):103-159.
    INTERDAT is computer software which substitutes a human interviewer. INTERDAT asks questions and tries to understand the responses by attributing mental models to the interviewee. The correctness of these models is tested by forecasting the responses to new questions. INTERDAT has many possibilities to adapt its models till it reaches the desired degree of understanding. Technologically INTERDAT is an Artificial Intelligence programme which is written entirely in LISP and to our knowledge the first Al application in sociological research.
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  13. Legal authority as a social fact.Michael Baurmann - 2000 - Law and Philosophy 19 (2):247-262.
    From a sociological point of view, the conceptual and logical relations between the norms of legal order represent empirical and causal relations between social actors. The claim that legal authority is based on the validity of empowering norms means, sociologically, that the capability to enact and enforce legal norms is based on an empirical transfer of power from one social actor to another. With this process, sociology has to explain how a proclamation of legal rights by the creation of empowering (...)
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  14. Mehrheit ohne Moral? Warum demokratische Entscheidungen ethische Prinzipien erfordern.Michael Baurmann - 2004 - In Christoph Lütge & Gerhard Vollmer (eds.), Fakten statt Normen?: Zur Rolle einzelwissenschaftlicher Argumente in einer naturalistischen Ethik. Baden-Baden: Nomos.
     
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    Rechte und Normen als soziale Tatsachen: Zu James S. Colemans Grundlegung der Sozialtheorie.Michael Baurmann - 1993 - Analyse & Kritik 15 (1):36-61.
    The concept of right plays a central role in Coleman’s Foundations of Social Theory. It is defined as an empirical concept which refers to rights as social facts. One consequence of this view is according to Coleman that the normative-ethical question of how rights ought to be distributed can have no answer. The following article wants to show that this thesis is not convincing. The main focus of the article is a critical analysis of Coleman's theory of the relationship between (...)
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  16. Trust and Community on the Internet.Michael Baurmann, Bernd Lahno, Uwe Matzat & Anton Leist (eds.) - 2004 - Lucius & Lucius (Analyse und Kritik 26(1).
     
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    Universalisierung und Partikularisierung der Moral: Ein individualistisches Erklärungsmodell.Michael Baurmann - 1997 - In Rainer Hegselmann & Hartmut Kliemt (eds.), Moral Und Interesse: Zur Interdisziplinären Erneuerung der Moralwissenschaften. München: Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag. pp. 65-110.
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  18. Vertrauen, Kooperation und große Zahlen.Michael Baurmann & Bernd Lahno - 2001 - In Rainer Schmalz-Bruns (ed.), Politisches Vertrauen. Nomos Verlag. pp. 191-220.
     
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    Volksabstimmungen, Verhandlungen und der Schleier der Insignifikanz: Kommentar zu Bruno S. Frey/gebhard Kirchgassner: ‘Diskursethik, Politische Ökonomie und Volksabstimmungen’.Michael Baurmann & Hartmut Kliemt - 1993 - Analyse & Kritik 15 (2):150-167.
    To combine some views of 'Diskursethik' and Constitutional Political Economy seems to be promising. In our comments on Frey's and Kirchgässner's attempt to join the forces of Discourse theory and Political Economy in defending the wider spread use of referenda we direct attention to three points. Firstly, the normative basis of both concepts is unsettled. Secondly, an economic approach contrary to the supposition of Frey and Kirchgässner provides substantial insights into the processes which precede collective decisions. Thirdly, the 'veil of (...)
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    Zum Programm einer kritischen Sozialwissenschaft−Empirie und Theorie.Michael Baurmann, Anton Leist & Dieter Mans - 1979 - Analyse & Kritik 1 (1):1-29.
    The article argues for a synthesis between analytical philosophy and social sciences as relevant and necessary. The motivation and framework of such a synthesis is outlined on the basis of a critical social science. The authors illuminate such a perspective negatively in a critique of empirical and theoretical sociology, then positively in a clarification of the critical standpoint. Four theses, two under each-aspect, are defended: 1. Concerning empirical social sciences Neither the quantitative nor the qualitative paradigm of empirical social science (...)
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    Zum Programm einer kritischen Sozialwissenschaft – Theorie der gerechten Gesellschaft und Ideologiekritik.Michael Baurmann, Anton Leist & Dieter Mans - 1979 - Analyse & Kritik 1 (2):105-124.
    Critical social science has to acknowledge that every fundamental critique of society implies the justification of alternative norms and institutions. Several current objections against such an explicitly normative understanding of critical social science are discussed. The following outline of a theory of a just society tries to meet two demands: the rational consensus of all individuals concerned and the satisfaction of individual interests. In societies characterized by class struggles, however, these two aims turn out to be incompatible. Therefore an ethical (...)
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    What should the voter know? Epistemic trust in democracy.Michael Baurmann & Geoffrey Brennan - 2009 - Grazer Philosophische Studien 79 (1):157-186.
    Alvin Goldman develops the concept of “core voter knowledge” to capture the kind of knowledge that voters need to have in order that democracy function successfully. As democracy is supposed to promote the people's goals, core voter knowledge must, according to Goldman, first and foremost answer the question which electoral candidate would successfully perform in achieving that voter's ends. In our paper we challenge this concept of core voter knowledge from different angles. We analyse the dimensions of political trustworthiness and (...)
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    Perspectives in Moral Science. Contributions from Philosophy Economics, and Politics in Honour of Hartmut Kliemt.Bernd Lahno & Michael Baurmann (eds.) - 2009 - Frankfurt School Verlag.