Short Description
Qualitative grading (e.g., ‘very promising’, ‘quite unlikely’) is pervasive in scientific evaluations and policy recommendations by expert panels, yet its formal foundations and aggregation methods remain underexplored. This project addresses this gap by applying formal resources dispersed across formal (social) epistemology and social choice theory, developing a novel theoretical framework for qualitative judgments (grades) and their aggregation, and applying them to science.
The project is led by Thomas Boyer-Kassem (Poitiers), Dunja Šešelja (RUB) and Minkyung Wang (LMU). You find the official webpage here.
Recent Activity
2026-04-22 : Reading Group for Qualitative Grading Project
2026-05-06 : Dunja gave a talk in the Higher Seminar in Philosophy at Stockholm University