This paper provides an overview of the issues involved in recent debates about the epistemological relevance of emotions. We first survey some key issues in epistemology and the theory of emotions that inform various assessments of emotions’ potential significance in epistemology. We then distinguish five epistemic functions that have been claimed for emotions: motivational force, salience and ...

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...

In this survey we analyze and compare various sufficient epistemic conditions for backward induction that have been proposed in the literature. To this purpose we present a simple epistemic base model for games with perfect information, and express the conditions of the different models in terms of our base model. This will enable us to explictly analyze the differences and similarities between...

Modeling epistemic processes in scientific discovery satisfactorily is an indispensable step to automating scientific discovery processes. This paper presents some significant fundamental observations and assumptions on scientific discovery processes and their automation at first. Based on the observations and assumptions, the paper shows why classical mathematical logic, its various classical ...

The paper discusses objections against non-hidden variable versions of the epistemic conception of quantum states—the view that quantum states do not describe the properties of quantum systems but reflect, in some way to be specified, the epistemic conditions of agents assigning them. In the first half of the paper, the main motivation for the epistemic conception of quantum states is sketched,...

Modeling epistemic processes in scientific discovery satisfactorily is an indispensable step to automating scientific discovery processes. This paper presents some significant fundamental observations and assumptions on scientific discovery processes and their automation at first. Based on the observations and assumptions, the paper shows why classical mathematical logic, its various classical ...