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    Tamminga

    contemporaryAnalytic Philosophy / Formal Epistemology

    Allard Tamminga is a contemporary Dutch logician and philosopher specializing in formal epistemology, deontic logic, and the logic of agency. His work bridges philosophical logic with game theory, focusing on belief revision, collective agency, and normative reasoning in multi-agent systems.

    Notable Achievements

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    Developed formal frameworks for collective agency and group obligations in deontic logic

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    Contributed to the logic of belief revision and plausibility updates in sequential decision-making

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    Advanced expressive completeness results for logics of agency and ability

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    Published influential work bridging game theory and philosophical logic

    Positions & Arguments(1)

    Skepticism

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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.

    Truth & Knowledge

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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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    Analytic Philosophy / Formal Epistemology

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