Project

Reasoning with Priorities: Broadening the Scope

Code

3E018514

Duration

01 October 2014 → 30 September 2022

Funding

Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund, Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)

Promotor

Joke Meheus

Fellow

Frederik Van De Putte

Research disciplines

Humanities and the arts
- Theory and methodology of philosophy
- Philosophy
- Other philosophy, ethics and religious studies not elsewhere classified
Social sciences
- General pedagogical and educational sciences
- Communication sciences

Keywords

logic formal epistemology problem solving processes prioritized defeasible reasoning Philosophy

Project description

In prioritized reasoning, we rely on degrees of importance, plausibility, specificity, recency, etc. to solve certain logical problems. A range of models has been proposed for these kinds of reasoning. In my project, (i) I want to further develop some of these models, and (ii) I want to study the way priorities arise in the first place.