Information, Interaction, and Agency
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: September 19, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9781402036002
Subjects: Information theory; Philosophy; Artificial Intelligence - General; Ethics & Moral Philosophy; Logic; Belief Revision; Doxastic Logic; Epistemic Logic; Game Theory; Multi-Agent Systems; Philosophy / Logic
Description: Contemporary epistemological and cognitive studies, as well as recent trends in computer science and game theory have revealed an increasingly important and intimate relationship between Information, Interaction, and Agency. Agents perform actions based on the available information and in the presence of other interacting agents. From this perspective Information, Interaction, and Agency neatly ties together classical themes like rationality, decision-making and belief revision with games, strategies and learning in a multi-agent setting. Unified by the central notions Information, Interaction, and Agency, the essays in this volume provide refreshing methodological perspectives on belief revision, dynamic epistemic logic, von Neumann games, and evolutionary game theory; all of which in turn are central approaches to understanding our own rationality and that of other agents.