Feedback loop reasoning in physiological contexts

Reasoning in Epistemic Contexts

“Epistemology is about to leave philosophy and join the sciences as other disciplines have done in the past. Briefly, work on the artificial intelligence problem (i.e. the problem of making machines, specifically electronic computers, behave intelligently) will require a theory of how knowledge can be obtained by a system in interaction with its environment, what knowlege is (i.e. its mathemati...

Contexts of Reasoning

2010 This dissertation consists of a extended introduction, including synopsis of the conceptual development and supplementary material, and these papers:

Relational Reasoning about Contexts

Probabilistic Contexts for Reasoning

We present a view of a context hypothesization process performed using the probabilistic knowledge of a domain. We outline the underlying asumptions and requirements for a focussed construction of interesting hypothetical contexts for probabilistic reasoning. The formalism presented seeks to construct consistent, minimal, and desirable probabilistic contexts by selecting suitable domain attribu...

Deontic Reasoning Across Contexts

Contrastivism about ‘ought’ holds that ‘ought’ claims are relativized, at least implicitly, to sets of mutually exclusive but not necessarily jointly exhaustive alternatives. This kind of theory can solve puzzles that face other linguistic theories of ‘ought’, via the rejection or severe restriction of principles that let us make inferences between ‘ought’ claims. By rejecting or restricting th...