This paper studies commitments in multiagent systems. A dialectical commitment corresponds to an agent taking a position about a putative fact, including for the sake of argument. A practical commitment corresponds to an agent being obliged to another to bring about a condition. Although commitments have been used in many works, an adequate formal semantics and axiomatization for them does not ...

Hinge epistemology is a family of views that offers novel approach to avoiding skeptical conclusions about the possibility posteriori justification our empirical beliefs. They claim at basis beliefs lie certain commitments whose rational status not determined by evidence. These are called hinge commitments. Prominent epistemologists have claimed either or arational but yet I argue such subject ...

Social commitments are commitments made from an agent to another agent to bring about a certain property. In broad terms, a social commitment represents the commitment that an agent, called debtor, has towards another agent, called creditor, to bring about some property or state of affairs, which is the subject of the commitment. Commitments are a well-known concept in Multi-Agent Systems (MAS)...