Each year, the NMR workshop brings together researchers from the field of nonmonotonic reasoning to present their work and discuss their research. This series of online talks on nonmonotonic reasoning aims to continue and extend the exchange in the 11 months between the workshops.
The series consists of regular online talks followed by a Q&A/discussion phase. The aim of the series is to offer a platform for the presentation of new and developing ideas in NMR. We encourage both the presentation of preliminary and ongoing work as well as mature results.
The scope of the series is nonmonotonic reasoning and all its subtopics, e.g., belief revision, uncertain reasoning, argumentation, and answer set programming.
The talks are given online via Zoom and are announced on the Planet KR mailing list. While there is no strict time limit, we aim for up to one hour for each talk (including questions and discussion).
This talk presents a broad view on inductive reasoning by embedding it in theories of epistemic states, conditionals, and belief revision. More precisely, we consider nonmonotonic inductive reasoning as a specific case of belief revision on epistemic states which include conditionals as a basic means for representing beliefs. We present a general framework for inductive reasoning from conditional belief bases that induces a variety of different revision scenarios quite naturally and particularly allows for taking background beliefs into account. As a proof of concept, we instantiate this framework by ranking-theoretic reasoning based on so-called c-revisions. We illustrate the constructive usefulness of our approach, as well as its integrating power.
This talk is based on the paper "Inductive Reasoning, Conditionals, and Belief Dynamics" by Gabriele Kern-Isberner and Wolfgang Spohn, Journal of Applied Logics, Special Issue on Foundations, Applications, and Theory of Inductive Logic, Guest Editors Martin Adamcík and Matthias Thimm, Volume 11, Number 1: January 2024, p. 89–127. https://www.collegepublications.co.uk/ifcolog/?00063
This seminar series is currently organized by Jonas Haldimann and Giovanni Casini. For questions, or if you are interested in giving a talk, please contact us at jonas@haldimann.de or giovanni.casini@isti.cnr.it.