Abstract
Publisher Summary Philosophers have been concerned with epistemology, which is the study of knowledge, for thousands of years, going back to the great Chinese, Greek, and Indian thinkers. The focus of much of their analysis was on the fundamental questions regarding the nature of knowledge. This chapter discusses the basic concepts of reasoning about knowledge and belief. The task of obtaining relevant knowledge and that of affecting the knowledge of others are important goals in many applications. This crucial connection between knowledge and action is what makes knowledge and belief two of the most frequently used notions in everyday discourse. Rigorous frameworks for reasoning about knowledge and belief can be of value when analyzing scenarios involving multiple agents. A central goal of communication among agents is to ensure that particular agents obtain certain knowledge (or beliefs).
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