Overview
- Introduces a new approach to belief change that is based on a cognitively more realistic model than previous approaches
- Written by a leading expert in this field
- Development of new model done in logical detail, including axiomatic characterizations of the new operations of change
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Trends in Logic (TREN, volume 46)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Why a New Approach?
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Front Matter
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Descriptor Revision
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Front Matter
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Sentential Change Revisited
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Front Matter
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Epilogue
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Back Matter
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About this book
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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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Descriptor Revision
Book Subtitle: Belief Change through Direct Choice
Authors: Sven Ove Hansson
Series Title: Trends in Logic
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53061-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-53060-4Published: 11 December 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-85051-1Published: 30 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-53061-1Published: 26 November 2017
Series ISSN: 1572-6126
Series E-ISSN: 2212-7313
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 239
Number of Illustrations: 18 b/w illustrations
Topics: Logic, Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages, Database Management, Epistemology, Mathematical Logic and Foundations