Abstract The 1985 paper by Carlos Alchourrón (1931–1996), Peter Gärdenfors, and David
Makinson (AGM),“On the Logic of Theory Change: Partial Meet Contraction and Revision …

Publisher Summary The study of the process of belief revision, which gave rise to an exciting
research area with the same name, can be traced back to the early 1980s. The framework …

What does it mean to be a realist about science if one takes seriously the view that scientific
knowledge is always perspectival, namely historically and culturally situated? In …

Are people rational? This question was central to Greek thought; and has been at the heart
of psychology, philosophy, rational choice in social sciences, and probabilistic approaches …

Conditional sentences are among the most intriguing and puzzling features of language:
analysis of their meaning and function has important implications for, and uses in, many …

To evaluate the postulates Gardenfors has proposed for theory change, it is useful to have
available a concrete construction or modelling for this process. Some results of this nature …

Handbook of Knowledge Representation describes the essential foundations of Knowledge
Representation, which lies at the core of Artificial Intelligence (AI). The book provides an up …

Belief revision is a topic of much interest in theoretical computer science and logic, and it
forms a central problem in research into artificial intelligence. In simple terms: how do you …

A long-standing goal of AI is to enable robots to plan in the face of uncertain and incomplete
information, and to handle task failure intelligently. This paper shows how to achieve this …

Belief Revision Page 1 Belief Revision Peter Gärdenfors and Hans Rott Contents 1
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 1.1 The problem of belief revision: An example …