We demonstrate a Semantic Web application that organizes social events for friends in the larger San Francisco Bay Area using real data from available web sources. We use a collection of techniques that will be at the heart of the next wave of applications on the web; entity extraction, querying federated databases, efficient spatial reasoning, temporal reasoning, practical RDFS++ reasoning, re...

In this paper we consider persuasion in the context of practical reasoning, and discuss the problems associated with construing reasoning about actions in a manner similar to reasoning about beliefs. We propose a perspective on practical reasoning as presumptive justification of a course of action, along with critical questions of this justification, building on the account of Walton. From this...

OSCAR is a fully implemented architecture for a cognitive agent, based largely on the author’s work in philosophy concerning epistemology and practical cognition. The seminal idea is that a generally intelligent agent must be able to function in an environment in which it is ignorant of most matters of fact. The architecture incorporates a general-purpose defeasible reasoner, built on top of an...

Ontologies have been increasingly used as a core representation formalism in medical information systems. Diagnosis is one of the highly relevant reasoning problems in this domain. In recent years this problem has captured attention also in the description logics community and various proposals on formalising abductive reasoning problems and their computational support appeared. In this paper, ...

since Aristotle it has been common among philosophers to distinguish between two fundamental types of reasoning, theoretical and practical. We do not only want to work out what is the case but also what we ought to do. This article offers a logical analysis of instrumental reasoning, which is the paradigm of practical reasoning. In the first section I discuss the major types of instrumental rea...

A key challenge for agent architectures and programming paradigms is to account for defeasible reasoning over mental attitudes and to provide associated conflict resolution mechanisms. A growing body of work is looking to address these challenges by proposing argumentation based approaches to agent defeasible and practical reasoning. This work conforms to Dung’s seminal argumentation semantics....

Taylor and Francis SEP_A_437580.sgm 10.1080/02691720903374026 Social Epistemology 0269-1728 (pri t)/1464-5297 (online) Original Article 2 0 & Francis 3 3/4 000July-December 200 Professor M amThalos m.th os@gm il.com On the classical instrumental view, practical reason is an all-things-considered enterprise, concerned not merely with identifying and evaluating appropriate means to the realizatio...

BACKGROUND Practical experience with clinical cases has played an important role in supporting the learning of clinical reasoning. However, learning through practical experience involves complex processes difficult to be captured by students. This study aimed to examine the effects of a computer-based cognitive-mapping approach that helps students to externalize the reasoning process and the kn...

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