Positionally-sensitive action-ascription

Belief Ascription and Context Dependence

This article considers the question whether belief ascriptions exhibit context dependence. I first distinguish two potential forms of context dependence in belief ascription. Propositional context dependence (PCD) concerns what the subject believes, whereas attitudinal context dependence (ACD) concerns what it is to believe a proposition. I then discuss three potential sources of PCD and two po...

When Can You Play Positionally?

We consider infinite antagonistic games over finite graphs. We present conditions that, whenever satisfied by the payoff mapping, assure for both players positional (memoryless) optimal strategies. To verify the robustness of our conditions we show that all popular payoff mappings, such as mean payoff, discounted, parity as well as several other payoffs satisfy them.

Positionally dependent renal artery restenosis.

A 63-year-old woman with extensive atherosclerotic vascular disease, including long-standing renal artery stenosis, was evaluated for newly uncontrolled hypertension with frequent headaches despite the use of 4 antihypertensive agents. Her blood pressure had been well controlled previously. She had a remote history of right renal artery occlusion and had undergone left renal artery stenting 9 y...

Knowledge Ascription by Grammatical Construction

An Anomaly in Intentional Action Ascription: More Evidence of Folk Diversity

A side effect is a foreseen but not intended consequence of some intended action. Joshua Knobe has discovered that most people judge that a good side effect is not brought about intentionally, but a bad side effect is brought about intentionally. These responses are meant to indicate something about the folk concept of intentional action— namely, that goodness and badness play a role in people'...