There exists a considerable body of work on epistemic logics for resource-bounded reasoners. In this paper, we concentrate on a less studied aspect of resource-bounded reasoning, namely, on the ascription of beliefs and inference rules by the agents to each other. We present a formal model of a system of bounded reasoners which reason about each other’s beliefs, and investigate the problem of b...

Abstract Schegloff (1996) has argued that grammars are “positionally-sensitive”, implying the situated use and understanding of linguistic formats depends on their sequential position. Analyzing German format Kannst du X? (corresponding to English Can you ) based 82 instances from a large corpus talk-in-interaction (FOLK), this paper shows how different action-ascriptions turns using same depen...

This paper discusses the extension of ViewGen, an algorithm derived for belief ascription, to the areas of speech acts, intensional object representation and metaphor. ViewGen represents the beliefs of agents as explicit, partitioned proposition-sets known as environments. Environments are convenient, even essential, for addressing important pragmatic issues of reasoning. The paper concentrates...

Abstract Ascribing autonomous status to agents is a valuable practice. As such, we ought care about how engage in practices of autonomy ascription. However, disagreement between first-personal experiences an agent's and third-personal determinations their presents challenges ethical epistemic concern. My view that insights from dialogical rather than nondialogical account give us the resources ...

BACKGROUND Cooperation is necessary in many types of human joint activity and relations. Evidence suggests that cooperation has direct and indirect benefits for the cooperators. Given how beneficial cooperation is overall, it seems relevant to investigate the various ways of enhancing individuals' willingness to invest in cooperative endeavors. We studied whether ascription of a transparent col...

In this paper we discuss the problenl of ascribing beliefs to an agent, given partial knowledge of his beliefs. The particular kind of ascription we are interested in we call explanatory ascription, since it ascribes beliefs to an agent as a means of explaining the beliefs we already know he has. We explore two approaches to explanatory ascription. In the first, we develop a model of belief cal...

Reasoning with legal cases by balancing factors (reasons to decide for and against the disputing parties) is a two stage process: first must be ascribed then these reasons weighed reach decision. While task of determining which set stronger has received much attention, factor ascription not. Here we present argument schemes ascription, illustrated detailed example.

This article considers the question whether belief ascriptions exhibit context dependence. I first distinguish two potential forms of context dependence in belief ascription. Propositional context dependence (PCD) concerns what the subject believes, whereas attitudinal context dependence (ACD) concerns what it is to believe a proposition. I then discuss three potential sources of PCD and two po...