Imagine the possibilities: information without overload

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Jago, Mark (2006) Imagine the possibilities: information without overload. Logique & Analyse, 49 (196). pp. 345-370.

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Abstract

Information is often modelled as a set of relevant possibilities, treated as logically possible worlds. However, this has the unintuitive consequence that the logical consequences of an agent's information cannot be informative for that agent. There are many scenarios in which such consequences are clearly informative for the agent in question. Attempts to weaken the logic underlying each possible world are misguided. Instead, I provide a genuinely psychological notion of epistemic possibility and show how it can be captured in a formal model, which I call a fan. I then show how to use fans to build formal models of being informed, as well as knowledge, belief and information update.

Item Type: Article
RIS ID: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1018447
Keywords: Epistemic possibility, information, update semantics, resourse bounded agents, bounded rationality, information overload, logical omniscience
Schools/Departments: University of Nottingham, UK > Faculty of Science > School of Computer Science
University of Nottingham, UK > Faculty of Arts > School of Humanities > Department of Philosophy
Depositing User: Jago, Mark
Date Deposited: 11 Apr 2006
Last Modified: 04 May 2020 20:29
URI: https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/id/eprint/384

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