Belief as a Cognitive and Practical Commitment

Rationality, Belief and Commitment

Characterizing Belief with Minimum Commitment

We describe a new approach for reasoning with belief functions in this paper. This approach is fundamentally unrelated to probabilities and is consistent with Shafer and Tversky's canonical examples.

Practical Relativistic Bit Commitment.

Bit commitment is a fundamental cryptographic primitive in which Alice wishes to commit a secret bit to Bob. Perfectly secure bit commitment between two mistrustful parties is impossible through an asynchronous exchange of quantum information. Perfect security is, however, possible when Alice and Bob each split into several agents exchanging classical information at times and locations suitably...

Belief and the Logic of Religious Commitment

Belief and Rationality In recent years deep questions have been raised not only about what constitutes rational justification for religious beliefs, but also about the relevance of standard notions of justification to the analysis of a believer’s relation to her beliefs. Indeed, the net tendency of the Anglo-American discussion since (roughly) 1983 has been to say that religious persons can be ...

Practical quantum bit commitment protocol

A quantum protocol for bit commitment the security of which is based on technological limitations on non demolition measurements and long-term quantum memory is presented.