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This dissertation not only aims to give a thorough analysis of Wittgenstein~s view on human subjectivity, but also wants to evaluate the objections that are frequently raised against such non-Cartesian accounts.
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In this dissertation I proposed a new, context-based analysis of
focusing in the framework of Inquisitive Semantics (2008). The logical
system of Groenendijk's framework is introduced for modeling dialogues
and motivated by this aim it is defined in such a way that it can
handle both questions an...
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Mathematical representation of knowledge and belief has become a topic
of increasing interest.
An individual knows or believes certain things based on the
information she has. What type of mathematical models can we use for
precise representations of her information, knowledge or beliefs?
When a...
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Temporal expectations and their violations
Olivia Ladinig
This thesis contains a collection of papers that investigate temporal
expectations.
Responses that indicate that a stimulus is perceived as unnatural,
complex, or surprising, as opposed to a stimulus being perceived as
natural, simple, o...
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This dissertation applies the notion of unawareness to problems of
formal se- mantics and pragmatics. Unawareness is an epistemic
attitude that has recently raised a lot of interest in epistemic logic
circles, as well as in what we might call "formal epistemic
economics". Informally it is closely...
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This thesis offers a general game theoretic model of language use and
interpretation and applies it to linguistic pragmatics in the vein of
(Grice 1989). The model presented here ---called the IBR model---
explains pragmatic phenomena, such as conversational implicatures, as
arising from a sequen...
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In this dissertation we present a framework for compactly
representing cardinal preferences over combinatorial domains and show
the feasibility of using this framework for auctions and voting.
Our framework uses goalbases---sets of weighted propositional
formulas---to represent utility functions...
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This thesis is in the field of Descriptive Set Theory and examines
some consequences of the Axiom of Determinacy concerning partition
properties that define large cardinals. The Axiom of Determinacy (AD)
is a game-theoretic statement expressing that all infinite two-player
perfect information gam...
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Statistical parsing models aim to assign accurate syntactic analyses
to natural language sentences based on the patterns and frequencies
observed in human-annotated training data. State-of-the-art
statistical parsers to date demonstrate excellent performance
in parsing English, but when the same ...
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The title of this dissertation is not very informative as to its contents.
We do not look exactly at how information is `played with',
but rather at how information the players have affects the play of the game:
at how they play, with information.
So for example some of the theorems we discuss
ar...
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Modeling rational agents' reasoning in interactive contexts and
identifying its logic is the general analytic project to which this
dissertation contributes. The borders of this project run through
economics, computer science and philosophy. It includes several
theoretical lines that we are conn...