Most formal models of deliberative democracy posit actors who want to guide a collective choice. This assumption stands in stark contrast to deliberative democratic theory as it was originally developed. The baseline non-formal model of this theory is the ideal speech situation, in which actors aim to understand and be understood, rather than to manipulate the outcome (Cohen 1989, Habermas 1990...

The literature in argumentation and artificial intelligence has distinguished five types of burden of proof in persuasion dialogs, but there appears to have been no serious investigation so far on how burdens of proof should be modeled in deliberation dialogs. The work in this paper is directed toward filling that gap by extending existing formal models of deliberation dialog to analyze four ex...

Intuition and deliberation are two modes of thinking for decision making. The objective this research was to compare latent means between men women’s preference intuition deliberation. However, empirical studies on the Preference Deliberation scale (PID) measurement invariance were not available. results our study showed original PID-based model did show a good fit data. Nevertheless, revised s...

Proponents of the “Belief in Ability Thesis” (BAT) maintain that one deliberates about whether to perform a given action only if one believes that one can perform the action in question. In An Essay on Free Will, Peter van Inwagen endorsed BAT and deployed it in an argument for the incompatibility of deliberation and consistent belief in the nonexistence of free will. Van Inwagen’s argument att...

Information-based agency is founded on two observations: everything in an agent’s world model is uncertain, and everything that an agent communicates gives away valuable information. The agent’s deliberative mechanism manages interaction using plans and strategies in the context of the relationships the agent has with other agents, and is the means by which those relationships develop.

In this paper, we focus on the process of delivering software artifacts. Especially we analyze the process of delivering software requirement speci cation using email. From the results of a preliminary experiment, we de ne implicit versions, which do not exist explicitly such as in the form of documents or description in the speci cation. We assume that the implicit versions will have bad in ue...

There is an apparent tension in current accounts of the relationship between reason giving and self knowledge. Philosophers like Richard Moran (2001) claim that deliberation and justification can give rise to first-person authority over the attitudes that subjects form or defend on the basis of what they take to be their best reasons. On the other hand, the psychological evidence on the introsp...

This paper focuses on a Social Agent which has been modeled using probabilistic networks and acts in an educational application. Using the Social Agent as a testbed, we present a way to perform the deliberation process in BDI (Belief-Desire-Intention) and Bayesian networks. The assemblage of mental states and Bayesian Networks is done by viewing beliefs as networks, and desires and intentions a...

This paper examines how three Dutch political parties employ the Internet as a tool to enhance ‘digital democracy’. The potential of digital democracy is considered to be strongest in the sphere of collective action outside the domain of political institutions. In this article, however, attention is given to how institutionalized channels might be supportive of digital democracy. Three componen...