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Author: Eduardo Fermé Publisher: Springer ISBN: 3319605356 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 125
Book Description
This book explains how the logic of theory change employs formal models in the investigation of changes in belief states and databases. The topics covered include equivalent characterizations of AGM operations, extended representations of the belief states, change operators not included in the original framework, iterated change, applications of the model, its connections with other formal frameworks, and criticism of the model.
Author: Eduardo Fermé Publisher: Springer ISBN: 3319605356 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 125
Book Description
This book explains how the logic of theory change employs formal models in the investigation of changes in belief states and databases. The topics covered include equivalent characterizations of AGM operations, extended representations of the belief states, change operators not included in the original framework, iterated change, applications of the model, its connections with other formal frameworks, and criticism of the model.
Author: Joseph R. Lao Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1351378392 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 467
Book Description
This book examines the human proclivity to resist changing our beliefs. Drawing on psychological, neurological, and philosophical research, and integrating topics as wide ranging as emotion, cognition, social (and physical) context, and learning theory, Lao and Young explore why this resistance to change impedes our learning and progression. They also suggest that failure to adapt our beliefs to available and informed evidence can incur costs that may be seen in personal growth, politics, science, law, medicine, education, and business. Resistance to Belief Change explores the various manifestations of resistance, including overt, discursive, and especially inertial forms of resistance. As well as the influential factors that can impact upon them, the book also examines how the self-directed learner, as well as teachers, may structure the learning experience to overcome resistance and facilitate progressive and adaptive learning. Lao and Young find that the impediments to learning and resistance to change are far more prevalent and costly than previously suggested in research, and so this book will be of interest to a range of people in cognitive development, social psychology, and clinical and educational psychology.
Author: Aaron C. T. Smith Publisher: Springer ISBN: 1137578955 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 277
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Belief change lies at the heart of all human aspirations. From career progression, weight loss, spiritual commitment, and ideological passion, to love, grief, war, identity, and sport, beliefs guide our lives and to a great extent, determine our success, satisfaction and happiness. Cognitive Mechanisms of Belief Change is relevant to anyone interested in the machinations of how this occurs. It explains how certain ideas and concepts steal a place in the mind because they latch on to hardwired ways of thinking, experiencing, and behaving. Concepts throw light upon the mind’s desires, which in turn casts a kaleidoscope of silhouettes against the walls of thought, with those taking distinct shape forging the outlines for beliefs to inhabit. Beliefs infiltrate our minds, and this book shows how they arrive and change in ways critical to our sense of meaning and identity.
Author: David McRaney Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 0593190297 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 353
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The 2022 Porchlight Marketing and Sales Book of the Year A brain-bending investigation of why some people never change their minds—and others do in an instant—by the bestselling author of You Are Not So Smart What made a prominent conspiracy-theorist YouTuber finally see that 9/11 was not a hoax? How do voter opinions shift from neutral to resolute? Can widespread social change only take place when a generation dies out? From one of our greatest thinkers on reasoning, HOW MINDS CHANGE is a book about the science, and the experience, of transformation. When self-delusion expert and psychology nerd David McRaney began a book about how to change someone’s mind in one conversation, he never expected to change his own. But then a diehard 9/11 Truther’s conversion blew up his theories—inspiring him to ask not just how to persuade, but why we believe, from the eye of the beholder. Delving into the latest research of psychologists and neuroscientists, HOW MINDS CHANGE explores the limits of reasoning, the power of groupthink, and the effects of deep canvassing. Told with McRaney’s trademark sense of humor, compassion, and scientific curiosity, it’s an eye-opening journey among cult members, conspiracy theorists, and political activists, from Westboro Baptist Church picketers to LGBTQ campaigners in California—that ultimately challenges us to question our own motives and beliefs. In an age of dangerous conspiratorial thinking, can we rise to the occasion with empathy? An expansive, big-hearted journalistic narrative, HOW MINDS CHANGE reaches surprising and thought-provoking conclusions, to demonstrate the rare but transformative circumstances under which minds can change.
Author: Sven Ove Hansson Publisher: Springer ISBN: 3319530615 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 239
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This book provides a critical examination of how the choice of what to believe is represented in the standard model of belief change. In particular the use of possible worlds and infinite remainders as objects of choice is critically examined. Descriptors are introduced as a versatile tool for expressing the success conditions of belief change, addressing both local and global descriptor revision. The book presents dynamic descriptors such as Ramsey descriptors that convey how an agent’s beliefs tend to be changed in response to different inputs. It also explores sentential revision and demonstrates how local and global operations of revision by a sentence can be derived as a special case of descriptor revision. Lastly, the book examines revocation, a generalization of contraction in which a specified sentence is removed in a process that may possibly also involve the addition of some new information to the belief set.
Author: Bob Burnham Publisher: ISBN: 9780984846238 Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 260
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How close are you to Being, Doing and Having everything you want in life? Bob Burnham asked this question and the answer that always came back to him is One Thought Away. Our lives always go in the direction of our thoughts. So all as we have to do is change our thoughts. Sounds easy right? Here's the problem! We think our thoughts over and over again until they become a belief and then even our truth. This does not serve our highest good in truly living the life we want to live. We may buy into our beliefs so deeply we think they're real but in fact they are all made up and are just thoughts. In most cases we've inherited our thoughts and beliefs from parents, coaches, teachers and even TV. We've bought into these beliefs and thoughts so deeply some of us will even die for them. Does that give you a sense of how powerful beliefs can be? That power is an illusion and is only fuelled by our thoughts-which we have the power to change in one moment. In this life-changing book you'll discover how: Putting action behind his new belief lights up the darkest period of Lorenzo Lamas's life. Being proactive about her new belief transformed Vanna White's biggest career error into her new role as America's Sweetheart. What was once a shameful secret for Jeannie Trasolini became a catalyst for others to find the courage to look for their own lost children. Taking the plunge to invest in herself propelled Lisa Sasevich, the Queen Of Sales Conversion, to make millions of dollars per year sharing her blessings with the world. Getting dumped on national TV became the impetus to help Tammi Baliszewski, Ph.D and other women find true authentic love. Challenging actor Robert Calvert's biggest fear gave his audience their biggest laughs. A limiting belief about weight was transformed by internationally-known healer Ann Taylor into a life of love, support and connection. After being stuck in an abusive relationship, Kathy Kovacs, one of Canada's favorite sports anchors, finds freedom in a new life on her own terms. And over 30 more stories along with a special Belief Change Tools section! This extraordinary book is life-changing. It shows you how to unlock more of your true potential than you ever thought possible. Brian Tracy, Author, Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life Change One Belief is a wakeup call for everyone - a challenge to take a look at our own lives and ask the difficult and freeing questions. Annette Elton, Author and Ghostwriter of over 30 books Don't let your beliefs stop you! Get Change One Belief now, believe in yourself, follow your heart, live your dreams and start creating the life you were born to live. Jim Donovan, Author, This is Your Life, Not a Dress Rehearsal Authors: Bob Burnham, Jeff McCallum, Rosemary Sneeringer and Kathryn Bartman
Author: Dov M. Gabbay Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 9401150540 Category : Mathematics Languages : en Pages : 452
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Belief change is an emerging field of artificial intelligence and information science dedicated to the dynamics of information and the present book provides a state-of-the-art picture of its formal foundations. It deals with the addition, deletion and combination of pieces of information and, more generally, with the revision, updating and fusion of knowledge bases. The book offers an extensive coverage of, and seeks to reconcile, two traditions in the kinematics of belief that often ignore each other - the symbolic and the numerical (often probabilistic) approaches. Moreover, the work encompasses both revision and fusion problems, even though these two are also commonly investigated by different communities. Finally, the book presents the numerical view of belief change, beyond the probabilistic framework, covering such approaches as possibility theory, belief functions and convex gambles. The work thus presents a unified view of belief change operators, drawing from a widely scattered literature embracing philosophical logic, artificial intelligence, uncertainty modelling and database systems. The material is a clearly organised guide to the literature on the dynamics of epistemic states, knowledge bases and uncertain information, suitable for scholars and graduate students familiar with applied logic, knowledge representation and uncertain reasoning.
Author: Alexander Bochman Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 3662045605 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 439
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This is the first book that integrates nonmonotonic reasoning and belief change into a single framework from an artificial intelligence logic point-of-view. The approach to both these subjects is based on a powerful notion of an epistemic state that subsumes both existing models for nonmonotonic inference and current models for belief change. Many results and constructions in the book are completely new and have not appeared earlier in the literature.
Author: Neil Tennant Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0199655758 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 364
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An account of how a rational agent should revise beliefs in the light of new evidence. Computationally implementable, it provides rigorous mathematical theory of dependency networks and investigates the complexity of algorithms for rational agents revising beliefs.
Author: Eduardo Fermé
Author: Eduardo Fermé
Author: Joseph R. Lao
Author: Aaron C. T. Smith
Author: David McRaney
Author: Sven Ove Hansson
Author: Bob Burnham
Author: Dov M. Gabbay
Author: Alexander Bochman
Author: Matthew McKay
Author: Neil Tennant