Dynamic interactive epistemology

Additional Material on “Hierarchies of Conditional Beliefs and Interactive Epistemology in Dynamic Games”

On the Role of Interactive Epistemology in Multiagent Planning

This paper focuses on the foundational role of interactive epistemology in the problem of generating plans for rational agents in multiagent settings. Interactive epistemology deals with the logic of knowledge and belief when there is more than one agent. In multiagent settings, we are interested in not only the agent’s knowledge of the state of the world, but also its belief over the other age...

Dynamic psychological games

The motivation of decision makers who care for emotions, reciprocity, or social conformity may depend directly on beliefs (about choices, beliefs, or information). Geanakoplos, Pearce & Stacchetti (Games and Economic Behavior, 1989) point out that traditional game theory is ill-equipped to address such matters, and they pioneer a new framework which does. However, their toolbox — psychological ...

Changing Metaphors for Designing Interactive Multimedia for Higher Education: From Media Producer to Dialogical Collaborator

In this paper, we: (a) review briefly the problematic nature of the initial design process and the subsequent paradigm shift in which the formerly separate strands of research and design became interwoven into a dialectical collaborative process, (b) outline the way in which the multimedia program makes possible a multi-dimensional curriculum including a constructivist epistemology of undergrad...

Hierarchies of Conditional Beliefs and Interactive Epistemology in Dynamic Games1

The epistemic analysis of solution concepts for dynamic games involves statements about the players’ beliefs conditional upon different histories of play, their conditional beliefs about each other’s conditional beliefs, etc. To represent such statements, we construct a space of infinite (coherent) hierarchies of conditional probability systems, defined with respect to a fixed collection of rel...