The cognitive and behavioral mediation of institutions : Towards 3 an account of institutional actions 4 Action editors : Luca Tummolini and Cristiano Castelfranchi 5

The cognitive and behavioral mediation of institutions: Towards an account of institutional actions

The aim of this paper is to provide an analysis of institutional actions from the standpoint of cognitive science. The notion of constitutive rules have been proposed to describe the conceptual nature of institutions. In this paper it is extended to cover specific processes of ‘recognition’ that provide the agents with additional artificial powers. The power of doing an institutional action is ...

Collective representational content for shared extended mind Action editors : Luca Tummolini and Cristiano Castelfranchi

Some types of species exploit the external environment to support their cognitive processes, in the sense of patterns created in the environment that function as external mental states and serve as an extension to their mind. In the case of social species the creation and exploitation of such patterns can be shared, thus obtaining a form of shared mind or collective intelligence. This paper exp...

Agents, Simulation and Applications

The Dialectics between an Individual and His Role

Agents are intelligent entities, situated in an environment and capable of flexible and autonomous behavior. Cognitive agents make use of different cognitive elements and processes in order to choose their behavior. Examples of such cognitive elements include an agent’s beliefs, desires, goals, or his capacities of situation assessment or planning. In general, agents must interact to other agen...

A simple logic of trust based on propositional assignments

Cristiano Castelfranchi and Rino Falcone introduced an influential cognitive theory of social trust that is based on the concepts of belief, goal, ability, willingness and opportunity. In this paper we propose a simple logic of belief and action that allows to express these concepts. While our logic of belief is standard, our logic of action has a very simple kind actions: actions setting the t...