16 September 2009
Seminar in Logic and Games at CUNY: Formalizing stories as games of mistaken beliefs
Posted by Rasmus Rendsvig under: Activities; Belief revision, conditioning, imaging and other belief; Courses, seminars and special lectures; Games for logic, dialogic games. .
| Friday, September 18, 2009 | ||
| 2:00 pm | to | 4:00 pm |
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Speaker: Benedikt Loewe, ILLC, University of Amsterdam
Title: Formalizing stories as games of mistaken beliefs
Friday, September 18, 2-4 PM, Room 4419, CUNY Graduate Center
Abstract: This talk reports on joint work with Eric Pacuit and Sanchit Saraf. Finding out what makes two stories equivalent is a daunting task for a formalization of narratives. We introduce a high-level language of beliefs and preferences for describing stories and a simple algorithm for analyzing them. Finally, we consider actual narratives from the the TV crime series “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (TM)” and identify a small number of basic building blocks sufficient to construct the doxastic game structure of these narratives.
Note that the time is earlier than our usual time in view of Rosh Hashanah.
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