Inference on the Low Level

1 Introduction.- 2 Preliminaries.- I The Explication of Monotonic and Nonmonotonic Inference.- 3 Belief.- 4 Inference.- II The Justification of Monotonic and Nonmonotonic Inference.- 5 General Remarks on Justification and Justified Belief.- 6 An Informal Account of Our Theory of Justified Inference.- 7 A Discussion of Reliability.- 8 A Theory of Justified Inference.- III The Logic of Justified Monotonic and Nonmonotonic Inference.- 9 The Semantics of Deductive and Nonmonotonic Logic.- 10 Systems of Deductive and Nonmonotonic Logic.- 11 Soundness and Completeness Results.- 12 Further Consequences for Justified Inference.- IV The Cognition of Justified Monotonic and Nonmonotonic Inference by Low-Level Agents.- 13 Introductory Remarks.- 14 Inhibition Nets as Simple Neural Networks.- 15 Interpreted Inhibition Net Agents.- 16 Cumulative-Ordered Interpreted Inh. Net Agents and the System CL.- 17 Cumulative-Ordered Interpreted Inhibition Net Agents as Ideal Agents.- 18 Inhibition Nets and Other Forms of Nonmonotonic Reasoning.- 19 Inhibition Nets and Artificial Neural Networks.- 20 Discussion.- V Appendix.- 21 Digression on States, Dispositions, Causation, Processes.- 22 Goldman’s Reliability Account of Justified Belief.- 23 A Sketch of Logic Programming.- 24 Preferential Interpreted Inhibition Net Agents and the System P.- 25 Cumulative Interpreted Inhibition Net Agents and the System C.- 26 Simple Cumulative Interpreted Inhibition Net Agents and the System CM.- 27 Simple Preferential Interpreted Inhibition Net Agents and the System M.- References.