Questions and dependence

Relevant information for agents is tied to issues that the information is about. Bringing in issues leads to a dynamics of issue change, that can happen via questions or other acts that change the current relevance structure. Dynamic-epistemic logics exist for direct questions and related acts of issue management. But questions also occur embedded in sentences, and also relevant here are recent dynamic-epistemic perspectives on wh-constructions such as knowing who, knowing how or knowing why.


 

Basic papers

 

Further directions  
  • Jie Fan, Yanjing Wang, Hans van Ditmarsch. Contingency and Knowing Whether. The Review of Symbolic Logic, 8(1):75-107, 2015.
  • Alexandru Baltag, Rachel Boddy, Sonja Smets. Group knowledge in interrogative epistemology. To appear in Outstanding Contributions to Logic volume dedicated to Jaakko Hintikka, Springer, 2016. Prepublication version available.
  • Yanjing Wang. Beyond knowing that: a new generation of epistemic logics. To appear in Outstanding Contributions to Logic volume dedicated to Jaakko Hintikka, Springer, 2016. Prepublication version available.
  • Alexandru Baltag. To know is to know the value of a variable. In Advances in Modal Logic 11, 135–155, College Publications, 2016.
  • Jan van Eijck, Malvin Gattinger, Yanjing Wang. Knowing Values and Public Inspection. In Logic and Its Applications (ICLA 2017), 77-90, Springer, 2017. Prepublication version available.
  • Yanjing Wang. A New Modal Framework for Epistemic Logic. In TARK 2017, 515-534, 2017.