Epistemology — Building Relationships

Building Relationships with Trust

Abstract In this chapter we put together two major threads of work: trust in the enactment of contracts and the modelling of relationships between agents. We depart from previous work where trust is defined as the relationship between commitment of action and instant observation of the actual actions being performed. Here we generalise the approach by assuming a time delay between the observati...

Building successful mentoring relationships.

Building Patient Relationships

In the past decade, technology growth in healthcare has exploded, and along with the tide of newly emerging technology comes the smartphone and accompanying applications. A smartphone is a cellular telephone with additional features including cameras, video playback, MP3 player, built-in applications, and Internet access for Web browsing and e-mail. Smartphone sales are predicted to reach 1.5 b...

Building Business Relationships with Negotiation

Successful negotiators prepare by determining their position along five dimensions. We introduce a negotiation model based on these dimensions and on two primitive concepts: intimacy (degree of closeness) and balance (degree of fairness). The intimacy is a pair of matrices that evaluate both an agent’s contribution to the relationship and its opponent’s contribution each from an information vie...

Genetic Epistemology and Naturalized Epistemology

When I started studying philosophy at the lycée , the very first book that I read happened to be Piaget’s Sagesse et illusions de la philosophie. I hated it. It explained that philosophy can, to some extent, keep its traditional role of searching for wisdom in the practical domain, but that it is no better than poetry when it tries to say things about the nature of the world, and even when it s...