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    contemporaryAnalytic Philosophy / Formal Epistemology

    Wesley H. Holliday is a contemporary American philosopher and logician working primarily in epistemic logic, modal logic, and formal epistemology. He is known for contributions to the semantics of knowledge, possibility semantics, and the logic of rational agency, including work on dynamic epistemic logic and game-theoretic reasoning.

    Notable Achievements

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    Developed possibility semantics as an alternative to possible-worlds semantics for modal logic

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    Contributed foundational work on epistemic logic and the logic of knowledge

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    Published extensively on dynamic epistemic logic and belief revision

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    Advanced formal analyses of voting theory and social choice

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    Professor of Philosophy at UC Berkeley

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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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