This book provides a critical examination of how the choice of what to
believe is represented in the standard model of belief change. In
particular the use of possible worlds and infinite remainders as
objects of choice is critically examined. Descriptors are introduced
as a versatile tool for expressing the success conditions of belief
change, addressing both local and global descriptor revision. The book
presents dynamic descriptors such as Ramsey descriptors that convey
how an agent’s beliefs tend to be changed in response to different
inputs. It also explores sentential revision and demonstrates how
local and global operations of revision by a sentence can be derived
as a special case of descriptor revision. Lastly, the book examines
revocation, a generalization of contraction in which a specified
sentence is removed in a process that may possibly also involve the
addition of some new information to the belief set.
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Belief Change through Direct Choice
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ISBN
9783319530611
Publisert
2018
Utgiver
Springer Nature
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
Digital bok
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