Jon Barwise

Jon Barwise was a philosopher and logician known for his work in epistemic logic, which studies how knowledge and belief affect reasoning and decision-making. He explored how agents possess knowledge, how they reason about what others know, and the implications of this for communication and information sharing. Barwise also contributed to understanding the structure of information and how it can be represented formally—his work bridges logic, philosophy, and computer science, influencing how we think about knowledge in social contexts and in relation to actions and beliefs.