DELIBERATION AND PREDICTION: IT'S COMPLICATED

Deliberation and its Role in the Formation of Intentions

Deliberation plays an important role in the design of rational agents embedded in the real-world. In particular, deliberation leads to the formation of intentions, i.e., plans of action that the agent is committed to achiev­ ing. In this paper, we present a branching­ time possible-worlds model for representing and reasoning about, beliefs, goals, inten­ tions, time, actions, probabilities, and...

Prediction and its limits.

Deliberation and Metaphysical Freedom

Proponents of the “Belief in Ability Thesis” (BAT) maintain that one deliberates about whether to perform a given action only if one believes that one can perform the action in question. In An Essay on Free Will, Peter van Inwagen endorsed BAT and deployed it in an argument for the incompatibility of deliberation and consistent belief in the nonexistence of free will. Van Inwagen’s argument att...

Autonomy and Agent Deliberation

An important aspect of agent autonomy is the decision making capability of the agents. We discuss several issues that agents need to deliberate about in order to decide which action to perform. We assume that there is no unique (rational or universal) deliberation process and that the deliberation process can be specified in various ways. The deliberation process is investigated from two perspe...

Deliberation and Intentions

Deliberation plays an important role in the design of rational agents embedded in the real-world. In particular, deliberation leads to the formation of intentions, i.e., plans of action that the agent is committed to achieving. In this paper, we present a branching-time possible-worlds model for representing and reasoning about, beliefs, goals, intentions, time, actions, probabilities, and payo...