This paper might change your mind

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ID21364072
AuthorsJosh Dever (Department of Philosophy University of Texas at Austin Austin Texas USA), Herbert I Schiller (0000-0001-7229-9337, Department of Philosophy University of Texas at Austin Austin Texas USA, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume55
Issue4
Pages863-890
Publication date2021-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueNoûs (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0029-4624 • E-ISSN: 1468-0068
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/nous.12336
OpenAlexW3024465365
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited25

Linguistic intervention in rational decision making is standardly captured in terms of information change. But the standard view gives us no way to model interventions involving expressions that only have an attentional effects on conversational contexts. How are expressions with non‐informational content – like epistemic modals – used to intervene in rational decision making? We show how to model rational decision change without information change: replace a standard conception of value (on which the value of a set of worlds reduces to values of individual worlds in the set) with one on which the value of a set of worlds is determined by a selection function that picks out a generic member world. We discuss some upshots of this view for theorizing in philosophy and formal semantics

Epistemology · Function (biology) · Linguistics · Machine learning · Possible world · Selection (genetic algorithm) · Semantics (computer science) · Set (abstract data type) · Value (mathematics) · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics · Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge · Philosophy · Philosophy and Theoretical Science · Psychology

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