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Knowledge and blameworthiness

Knowledge and blameworthiness
Knowledge and blameworthiness
Blameworthiness of an agent or a coalition of agents is often defined in terms of the principle of alternative possibilities: for the coalition to be responsible for an outcome, the outcome must take place and the coalition should have had a strategy to prevent it. In this article we argue that in the settings with imperfect information, not only should the coalition have had a strategy, but it also should have known that it had a strategy, and it should have known what the strategy was. The main technical result of the article is a sound and complete bimodal logic that describes the interplay between knowledge and blameworthiness in strategic games with imperfect information.
cs.AI, cs.GT, cs.LO
Naumov, Pavel
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Tao, Jia
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Naumov, Pavel
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Tao, Jia
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Abstract

Blameworthiness of an agent or a coalition of agents is often defined in terms of the principle of alternative possibilities: for the coalition to be responsible for an outcome, the outcome must take place and the coalition should have had a strategy to prevent it. In this article we argue that in the settings with imperfect information, not only should the coalition have had a strategy, but it also should have known that it had a strategy, and it should have known what the strategy was. The main technical result of the article is a sound and complete bimodal logic that describes the interplay between knowledge and blameworthiness in strategic games with imperfect information.

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Published date: 5 November 2018
Keywords: cs.AI, cs.GT, cs.LO

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Local EPrints ID: 479357
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/479357
PURE UUID: ce3c4da1-96c7-4b56-a66e-f621d4825c88
ORCID for Pavel Naumov: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-1687-045X

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Date deposited: 20 Jul 2023 17:34
Last modified: 17 Mar 2024 04:10

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Author: Pavel Naumov ORCID iD
Author: Jia Tao

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