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SYNTHESE LIBRARY STUDIES IN EPISTEMOLOGY, LOGIC, METHODOLOGY, AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

Editor-in-Chief:

JOHN SYMONS, University of Texas at El Paso, U.S.A. VINCENT F. HENDRICKS, Roskilde University, Denmark

Honorary Editor: JAAKKO HINTIKKA, Boston University, U.S.A.

Editors: DIRK VAN DALEN, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands THEO A.F. KUIPERS, University of Groningen, The Netherlands TEDDY SEIDENFELD, Carnegie Mellon University, U.S.A. PATRICK SUPPES, Stanford University, California, U.S.A. JAN WOLEN´SKI, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland

VOLUME 322

KNOWLEDGE CONTRIBUTORS Edited by

VINCENT F. HENDRICKS Roskilde University, Denmark

KLAUS FROVIN JØRGENSEN Roskilde University, Denmark and

STIG ANDUR PEDERSEN Roskilde University, Denmark

SPRINGER-SCIENCE+BUSINESS MEDIA, B.V.

A C.I.P. Catalogue record for this book is available from the Library of Congress.

ISBN 978-1-4020-1748-3 DOI 10.1007/ 978-94-007-1001-6

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978-94-007-1001-6 (eBook)

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CONTENTS Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix V.F. HENDRICKS, K.F. JØRGENSEN AND S.A. PEDERSEN / Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1. Agent and System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 2. Active Agenthood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 3. Multiple Active Agents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 4. Multi-Modalities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 5. Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 W. LENZEN / Knowledge, Belief, and Subjective Probability: Outlines of a Unified System of Epistemic/Doxastic Logic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 1. The Logic of Conviction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2. The Logic of Knowledge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .