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    Eric Pacuit

    contemporaryAnalytic Philosophy

    Eric Pacuit is a contemporary American philosopher and logician specializing in logic, game theory, and social choice theory. He is known for his work on dynamic epistemic logic, the foundations of game theory, and the logical analysis of rational agency and collective decision-making.

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    Notable Achievements

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    Developed formal frameworks for dynamic epistemic logic and belief revision

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    Contributed foundational work on the logic of rational agency in game theory

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    Authored influential work on voting theory and social choice

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    Professor of Philosophy at the University of Maryland

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    Co-authored research on plausibility models in sequential games

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    Plausibility updates in sequential games during actual play differ in interpretation from plausibility updates used in pregame deliberation for Backward Induction.

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    Plausibility updates in sequential games during actual play differ in interpretation from plausibility updates used in pregame deliberation for Backward Induction.

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