Traditional philosophical discourse draws a distinction between ontology and epistemology and generally enforces this distinction by keeping the two subject areas separated and unrelated. In addition, the relationship between the two areas is of central importance to physics and philosophy of physics. For instance, all kinds of measurement-related problems force us to consider both our knowledg...

The point of departure for modern epistemic and doxastic logic is Jaakko Hintikka’s seminal book Knowledge and Belief: An Introduction to the Logic of the Two Notions (1962)1. While Hintikka’s project sparked some discussion among mainstream epistemologists (especially regarding the “KK Principle”: Does knowing something imply that one knows that one knows it?2), much of the work on epistemic a...

Epistemic planning can be used for decision making in multi-agent situations with distributed knowledge and capabilities. Recently, Dynamic Epistemic Logic (DEL) has been shown to provide a very natural and expressive framework for epistemic planning. We extend the DEL-based epistemic planning framework to include perspective shifts, allowing us to define new notions of sequential and condition...

Evidence Theory is an important tool of uncertainty modelling when both epistemic and aleatory uncertainties are present in the problem under consideration. In the absence of empirical data, experts in related fields provide necessary information. The fundamental objects of this theory of evidence are called focal elements, and the primitive function associated with it is called basic probabili...

The concept of stability á la J. von Neumann and O. Morgenstern, which is composed of a pair of internal and external stability requirements, formalizes the idea of standard of behavior. This paper studies the decisiontheoretic foundation of stability, by establishing some epistemic conditions for a “stable” pattern of behavior in the context of strategic interaction. JEL Classification: C70, C...

Abstract This paper argues that we should reject G. E. Moore’s anti-skeptical argument as it is presented in “Proof of an External World.” However, the reason I offer different from traditional objections. A proper understanding “proof” requires paying attention to important distinction between two forms skepticism. call these Ontological Skepticism and Epistemic . The former skepticism about o...

This research paper lays stress on philosophies of human desire. All the human being has some psychical need in addition to physical needs. And to satisfy the psychical needs, there is a need for stimulants, more in case of exclusive pedestrian precincts. Having exclusively Pedestrian precincts/Cores in city design draws its inspiration from the fact that public zones, accessible to majority of...

Reliability evaluation of a large composite generation and transmission system involves extensive and time-consuming calculations. Application of reliability equivalent networks therefore seems necessary in the reliability evaluation of large power systems. An approach is presented to develop an adequacy equivalent of a composite system using network screening. In the proposed method, a power s...

In the recent literature on Moore’s Proof of an external world, it has emerged that different diagnoses of the argument’s failure are prima facie defensible. As a result, there is a sense that the appropriateness of the different verdicts on it may depend on variation in the kinds of context in which the argument is taken to be a move, with different characteristic aims. In this spirit Martin D...