Biological and Cultural Bases of Human Inference addresses the interface between social science and cognitive science. In this volume, Viale and colleagues explore which human social cognitive powers evolve naturally and which are influenced by culture. Updating the debate betwe…
The importance of questions is beyond doubt. But the degree of attention paid to them in logic and linguistics is still less than they deserve. (from the Preface) What is a question? How to represent questions in formal languages? How to model reasoning in which questions are in…
Foundations of Info-Metrics provides an overview of modeling and inference, rather than a problem specific model, and progresses from the simple premise that information is often insufficient to provide a unique answer for decisions we wish to make. Each decision, or solution, i…
This work provides a framework for info-metrics-the science of modeling, inference, and reasoning under conditions of noisy and insufficient information. Info-metrics is an inherently interdisciplinary framework that emerged from the intersection of information theory, statistic…
Introduction -- Rational inference : a constrained optimization framework -- The metrics of info-metrics : information, probabilities and entropy -- Entropy maximization -- Inference in the real world -- Advanced inference in the real world -- Efficiency, sufficiency, and optima…
Foundations of Info-Metrics provides an overview of modeling and inference, rather than a problem specific model, and progresses from the simple premise that information is often insufficient to provide a unique answer for decisions we wish to make. Each decision, or solution, i…
