We define grounding in terms of shared public commitments, and link public commitments to other, private, attitudes within a decidable dynamic logic for computing implicatures and predicting an agent’s next dialogue move.

Perception is riddled with cases of reliable misperception. These are in which a perceptual state tokened inaccurately any time it under normal conditions. On the face it, this fact causes trouble for theories that provide an analysis content non-semantic, non-intentional, and non-phenomenal terms, such as those found Millikan (1984), Fodor (1990), Neander (2017), Schellenberg (2018). I show ho...

In this paper we present a modal semantics for our approach based on social commitments and arguments for conversational agents. Our formal framework based on this approach uses three basic elements: social commitments, actions that agents apply to these social commitments and arguments that agents use to support their actions. This framework, called Commitment and Argument Network (CAN), forma...

This study aimed to explore teachers’ Internet self-efficacy and information commitments. More importantly, this study also attempted to identify possible factors that affect the teachers’ Internet self-efficacy. The participants were 301 elementary school teachers. In this study, the Internet Self-efficacy Survey (ISS) and the Information Commitments Survey (ICS) were used. Through both explor...

The idea of “information commitments” refers to both learners’ online searching strategies and the evaluative standards that students use to assess the accuracy and usefulness of information in web-based learning environments. Based upon the results of a pioneering and qualitative study on information commitments, this study aimed to develop an Information Commitments Survey (ICS) for assessing...