Beyond Belief: Logic In Multiple Attitudes - HAL-SHS - Sciences de l'Homme et de la Société
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Beyond Belief: Logic In Multiple Attitudes

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Logical models of the mind focus on beliefs, and how one reasons with beliefs. But we also have desires, intentions, preferences, and other attitudes-and arguably we reason with them, particularly when making decisions. To enable a logical analysis of someone's psychology and decision-making, we generalize three classic logical desiderata on beliefs -- consistency, completeness, and implication-closedness -- towards multiple attitudes. The three resulting 'logical' desiderata on our psychology contrast with the classic notion of 'rationality requirements': requirements of having transitive preferences, non-contradictory beliefs, non-acratic intentions, intentions consistent with preferences, and so on. We prove a theorem that connects the logical desiderata to rationality requirements: each of the three logical desiderata (generalized to multiple attitudes) is equivalent to the satisfaction of a certain class of rationality requirements. This result connects logic with choice theory and psychology, and has implications for whether reasoning can make our attitudes consistent, complete, and closed.
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halshs-03023012 , version 1 (08-01-2020)
halshs-03023012 , version 2 (25-11-2020)

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Franz Dietrich, Antonios Staras, Robert Sugden. Beyond Belief: Logic In Multiple Attitudes. 2019. ⟨halshs-03023012v1⟩
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