Active Agents

@article{Hendricks2003ActiveA,
  title={Active Agents},
  author={Vincent F. Hendricks},
  journal={Journal of Logic, Language and Information},
  year={2003},
  volume={12},
  pages={469-495}
}
  • V. Hendricks
  • Published 1 September 2003
  • Philosophy
  • Journal of Logic, Language and Information
The purpose of this survey is twofold: (1) to place some centralthemes of epistemic logic in a general epistemological context,and (2) to outline a new framework for epistemic logic developedjointly with S. Andur Pedersen unifying some key ``mainstream''epistemological concerns with the ``formal'' epistemologicalapparatus. 
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