The mouse and the ball: Towards a cognitively-based and ontologically-grounded logic of agency

We discuss steps towards a formalisation of the principles of an agentive naïve proto-physics, designed to match a level of abstraction that reflects the pre-linguistic conceptualisations and elementary notions of agency, as they develop during early human cognitive development. To this end, we present an agentive extension of the multi-dimensional image schema logic ISL based on variants of STIT theory, thus replacing the temporal dimension of ISL with an action-agnostic theory of agency. To begin grasping the notion of 'animate agent', we apply the newly defined logic to model the image schematic notion of 'self movement' as a means to distinguish the agentive capabilities of a mouse from those of a ball. Finally, we outline the prospects for employing the theory in cognitive robotics.

Publication type: 
Contributo in atti di convegno
Author or Creator: 
Kutz O.
Troquard N.
Hedblom M.M.
Porello D.
Publisher: 
Springfield, Amsterdam , Paesi Bassi
Source: 
Formal Ontology in Information Systems - Proceedings of the 10th International Conference, {FOIS} 2018, Cape Town, South Africa, 19-21 September 2018, pp. 141–148, Cape Town, South Africa, 19-21 September 2018
info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Kutz O.; Troquard N.; Hedblom M.M.; Porello D./congresso_nome:Formal Ontology in Information Systems - Proceedings of the 10th International Conference, {FOIS} 2018, Cape Town, South Africa, 19-21 September 2018/congresso_luogo
Date: 
2018
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http://www.cnr.it/prodotto/i/415061
https://dx.doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-910-2-141
info:doi:10.3233/978-1-61499-910-2-141
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Eng
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