Who Cares What You Accurately Believe?

Can you believe what you read?

What you believe versus what you think they believe: a neuroimaging study of conceptual perspective-taking.

Social communication requires shared representations as well as a cognitive flexibility for successful interactions between self and other. What neural mechanisms underlie the ability to distinguish between our own perspective vs. the perspective of others at a conceptual level? In this PET study subjects who were medical students were asked according to the experimental conditions to respond t...

Who cares about mumps? You should!

Until the 1970s, mumps was one of the most common pediatric infectious diseases. Childhood mumps, which most often manifested as fever and bilateral par-otitis, was generally not very severe but could result in meningoencephalitis, and in adult men, it could lead to painful or-chitis. Fortunately, this latter complication was generally unilateral and rarely led to decreased fertility [1]. With ...

What You Should Believe: Obligations and Beliefs

This paper presents and discusses a novel approach to indeterministic belief revision. An indeterministic belief revision operator assumes that, when an agent is confronted with a new piece of information, it can revise its belief base in more than one way. We define a rational agent not only in terms of what it believes, as often assumed in belief revision, but also of what it ought or is obli...

Can you believe what you read in medical journals?

(Chest 1992; 101:1417-19) T he Editor of the ACP Journal Club, Dr. R. Brian Haynes, maintains that “About 9() 1)ercelit of any journal ill l)e publications of prelmniinary studies. Only a small pr porti I) ‘ill l e studies that should he applied in clinical practice. Physicians have to he able to detect those that are appropriate for clinical practice aniong (Itlite a variety that aren’t.” Do 1...