Uncertainty, Rationality, and Agency

• Main Author: Hoek, Wiebe van der (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2006.
• Subjects: Computer science.; Logic.; Artificial intelligence.; Economic theory.; Computer Science.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods.

This book is about Rational Agents, which can be humans, players in a game, software programs or institutions. Typically, such agents are uncertain about the state of affairs or the state of other agents, and under this partial information they have to decide on which action to take next. This book...

Table of Contents:

• The No Probabilities for Acts-Principle
• A Logic for Inductive Probabilistic Reasoning
• Rationality as Conformity
• On The Structure of Rational Acceptance: Comments on Hawthorne and Bovens
• Logic and the Foundations of the Theory of Games and Decisions: Introduction
• A Simple Modal Logic for Belief Revision
• Prolegomena to Dynamic Logic for Belief Revision
• From Knowledge-Based Programs to Graded Belief-Based Programs, Part I: On-Line Reasoning
• Order-Independent Transformative Decision Rules
• A Pragmatic Solution for the Paradox of Free Choice Permission
• A Logical Framework for Convention.