Advances in belief dynamics: Introduction
Jia Liu, Olivier Roy · Synthese · 2010
hasprovedanimportantplatformforthediffusionofcontemporaryresearchalongthesetwolines,witness, e.g. Agotnes et al. (2009) and van Ditmarsch et al. (2009), a trend that weproudly follow in the present special issue.The themes of interaction and information dynamics have, of course, not beenpursued in parallel. As is often the case in logic (Gabbay et al. 2003), their productgenerated a rich, but rather complex array of new problems. Table 1 gives a bird’seyeviewoftheresultinglandscape, whichwillhelpussituatethecontributionsinthepresent issue.The top-left cell (a) is the classical locus of investigation in epistemology: theindividual knower and her static environment (Steup 2001). It is also the origin ofmost logical investigations into the concepts of knowledge and beliefs, i.e. with thepioneering work of (Hintikka 1962). Many fundamental issues are still being studiedinthisarea,e.g.thenotionof