Criminology as Epistemic Necropolitics

Epistemic Actions as Resources

We provide algebraic semantics together with a sound and complete sequent calculus for information update due to epistemic actions. This semantics is flexible enough to accommodate incomplete as well as wrong information e.g. due to secrecy and deceit, as well as nested knowledge. We give a purely algebraic treatment of the muddy children puzzle, which moreover extends to situations where the c...

Computational Criminology

In this report, we present our work done in spring 2011 on the UK crimes dataset. This dataset was first released in December 2010, and contains reports of crimes committed in England and Wales, with their type and location. We first perform some exploratory analysis on this data, by looking at the correlation of crime rates with some independent variables, such as the population density or the...

Mathematical symbols as epistemic actions

Recent experimental evidence fromdevelopmental psychology and cognitive neuroscience indicates that humans are equippedwith unlearned elementarymathematical skills. However, formal mathematics has properties that cannot be reduced to these elementary cognitive capacities. The question then arises how human beings cognitively deal with more advanced mathematical ideas. This paper draws on the ex...

Psychiatry and Criminology

Tests as Epistemic Updates: Pursuit of Knowledge

32 Acknowledgements Thanks are due to Frans Voorbraak for providing us with example 3.12. 31 (2) after the agent performs the action s/he should know that s/he had just performed the action 5. (3) the agent knows that the observable result holds after the test is performed just in case that the observable precondition was true before the test was performed. These demands diier substantially fro...