A Two-tiered View on Acceptance

23rd Midwest Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science Conference 2012

Joëlle Proust

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来源: CEUR

【 摘 要 】

Experimental studies in metacognition indicate that a variety of norms are used by humans and some non-human agents to control and monitor their cognitive performances, such as accuracy, comprehensiveness, intelligibility, coherence, relevance, or consensus. This diversity of epistemic norms motivates a revision of the concept of acceptance. First, there are different forms of acceptance, corresponding to the specific epistemic norm(s) that constitute(s) them. Furthermore, acceptances need to include a strategic component, from which the epistemic component is insulated, whose function is to adjust the epistemic output to expected utility. Experimental evidence suggests that this twotiered analysis of acceptance is empirically adequate. Relevance to AI is briefly discussed.