Belief Change
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Comment peut-on croire à l’incroyable ? Il semble déraisonnable d’adhérer aux croyances les plus extrêmes, invraisemblables ou ubuesques. Il paraît tout aussi irrationnel qu’un adepte continue à croire fervemment alors que les faits sont... more
... Dworkin [1977, 26] and, more clearly, Peczenick [1991]. On comparative evaluations and defeasibility in moral thinking, of. WD Ross [1930; 1939]. Page 3. NORMATIVE CONFLICTS IN LEGAL REASONING 211 more tractable [cf. ...
The European food industry has been regulated for a long time. Since the 1960s, the European market has been protected from imports by relatively high taxes. Companies in Europe therefore never had to fear real competition from outside... more
Dans le domaine de l’adhésion et de la désadhésion à un mouvement marginal – appelé « secte » par les uns et « Nouveaux Mouvements Religieux » par les autres –, il semble mystérieux de voir un individu accepter des croyances et des... more
Page 1. Using Predicate Logic to Integrate Qualitative Reasoning and Classical Decision Theory JOHN FOX, DOMINIC A. CLARK, ANDRZEJ J. GLOWINSKI, AND MICHAEL J. O'NEIL ALtrmt -Classical decision theop can be ...
Les croyances défiant le sens commun sont souvent taxées d’irrationnelles en ce qu’elles s’opposent parfois radicalement aux savoirs ordinaires et aux connaissances scientifiques. Chacun peut s’étonner d’entendre que l’eau récoltée sur... more
This paper provides a logical framework for negotiation be- tween agents that are assumed to be rational, cooperative and truthful. We present a characterisation of the permissible out- comes of a process of negotiation in terms of a set... more
The ability to entertain possibilities and draw inferences about them is essential to human intelligence. We examine the hypothesis that conditional if-then statements trigger a mental simulation process in which people suppose the... more
Exploration des mécanismes cognitifs qui sont à l’oeuvre dans le processus qui mène des adeptes à adhérer puis à désadhérer à des croyances généralement considérées comme « invraisemblables ». Si les croyances étudiées s’opposent aux... more
During persistent surveillance of a given population in a conflict situation, data management can quickly become unwieldy due to the inundation of low-level information from many, disparate sources. Computational population models can... more
We investigate the logical and conceptual connections between abductive reasoning construed as a process of belief change, on the one hand, and truth approximation, construed as increasing (estimated) verisimilitude, on the other. We... more
... Mr Phillip Stacey QUT, Brisbane, Australia p.stacey@qut.edu.au ... However, very little research, apart from pilot work undertaken by the author (see Brownlee, Berthelsen & Boulton-Lewis, 2004), has investigated the development of... more