Year: 2013
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: Human rationality involves arguing for one's beliefs as well as revising those beliefs in the face of good reasons to do so.An important problem in computer science and philosophical logic is to find models that combine argumentation and belief updating in one formal framework.In this article, we present the Laputa model which attempts to do precisely this.Laputa differs from some other frameworks with similar goals (a) in being Bayesian, (b) in taking pro et contra argumentation as the paradigm case, and (c) in taking the persuasive effect of an argument, rather than its strict acceptability, to be the more fundamental notion.This article provides a general introduction to the model for a computer science audience as a way of integrating argumentation and belief updating.It features detailed derivations of how inquirers in a social network update their credences and trust assessments in response to inquiry and argumentation.1
Authors: George Masterton, Erik J Olsson
Language: English
Subfield: Artificial Intelligence
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W30476246