The Unawareness Bibliography

by Burkhard C. Schipper

If you want to have your work included or something needs updating, please email me (bcschipper@ucdavis.edu)
Last update: March 13, 2024



Accorsi, R., Basin, D., Vigano, L. (2003). Towards an awareness-based semantics for security protocol analysis, Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science 55, 5-24.

Agotnes, T., Alechina, N. (2014). A logic for reasoning about knowledge of unawareness, Journal of Logic, Language, and Information 23, 197-217.

Agotnes, T., Alechina, N. (2007). Full and relative awareness: A decidable logic for reasoning about knowledge of unawareness, in: Samet, D. (Ed.), Proceedings of the 11th Conference on Theoretical Aspects of Rationality and Knowledge (TARK 2007), Presses Universitaires De Louvain, 6-14.

Araujo, F., Piermont, E. (2023). Unawareness and risk taking: The role of context, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 208, 61-79. 

Artemov, S. (2020). Justification awareness, Journal of Logic and Computation 30, 1431-1446.

Artemov, S. (2018). Justification awareness models, in: Artemov, S., Nerode, A. (eds.) Logical Foundations of Computer Science, LFCS 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 10703. Springer, 22-36.

Auster, S. (2013). Asymmetric awareness and moral hazard, Games and Economic Behavior 82, 503-521.

Auster, S., Pavoni, N. (2024). Optimal delegation and information transmission under limited awareness, Theoretical Economics 19, 245-284.

Auster, S., Pavoni, N. (2022). Limited awareness and financial intermediation, mimeo., University of Bonn.

Becker, C.K., Melkonyan, T., Proto, E., Sofianos, A., Trautmann, S.T. (2021). Reverse Bayesianism: Revising beliefs in light of unforeseen events, mimeo., University of Heidelberg. 

Belardinelli, G., Rendsvig K.R. (2023). Awareness logic: Kripke lattices as a middle ground between syntactic and semantic models, Journal of Logic and Computation 33, 1186-1215.

Belardinelli, G., Rendsvig, K.R. (2021). Awareness logic: A Kripke-based rendition of the Heifetz-Meier-Schipper model and a dynamic extension, in: Logical Aspects in Multi-Agent Systems and Strategic Reasoning, LAMAS&SR 2021.

Belardinelli, G., Rendsvig, K.R. (2020). Awareness logic: A Kripke-based rendition of the Heifetz-Meier-Schipper model, in: Martins, M.A., Sedlár, I. (eds.), Dynamic Logic. New Trends and Applications. DaLi 2020, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 12569. Springer.

Belardinelli, G., Schipper, B.C. (2024). Tacit knowledge, mimeo., University of California, Davis. 

Belardinelli, G., Schipper, B.C. (2024). Implicit knowledge in unawareness structures, Synthese, forthcoming.

Belardinelli, G., Schipper, B.C. (2023). Implicit knowledge in unawareness structures - Extended abstract, in: Theoretical Aspects of Rationality and Knowledge, Proceedings of the Nineteens Conference (TARK 2023), Rineke Verbrugge (Ed.), Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science 379, 93-112.

van Benthem, J., Velazquez-Quesada, F.R. (2010). The dynamic of awareness, Synthese 177, 5-27.

van den Berg, L., Atencia, M., Euzenat J. (2023). Raising awareness without disclosing truth, Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence 91, 431-464.

Blume, A., Gneezy, U. (2010). Cognitive forward induction and coordination without common knowledge: theory and evidence, Games and Economic Behavior, 68, 488-511.

Board, O., Chung, K.S. (2022). Object-based unawareness: Theory and applications, Journal of Mechanism and Institution Design 7, 1-43.

Board, O., Chung, K.S. (2021). Object-based unawareness: Axioms, Journal of Mechanism and Institution Design 6, 1-36.

Board, O., Chung, K.S., Schipper, B.C. (2011). Two models of unawareness: Comparing the object-based and subjective-state-space approaches, Synthese 179, 13-34.Free PDF

Bryan, K, Ryall, M., Schipper, B.C. (2022). Value-capture in the face of known and unknown unknowns, Strategy Science 7, 157–189. Free PDF

Burrieza, A., Fernandez-Fernandez, C. (2015). Distributed explicit knowledge and collective awareness, Bulletin of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science 116, 195-203.

Chakravarty, S., Kelsey, D., Teitelbaum, J.C. (2022). Reverse Bayesianism and act independence, Journal of Economic Theory 203, 105495.

Chang, C., Liu, S.H. (2011). Unawareness and the standard-state space models, mimeo., National Tsing Hua University. 

Chen, Y.C., Ely, J., Luo, X. (2012). Note on unawareness: Negative introspection versus AU introspection (and KU introspection), International Journal of Game Theory 41, 325-329.

Chen, Y.J., Zhao, X.J. (2013). Solution concepts of principal-agent models with unawareness of actions, Games 4, 508-531.

Chen, Y.J., Zhao, X.J. (2009). Contractual traps, in: Heifetz, A. (Ed.), Proceedings of the 12th Conference on Theoretical Aspects of Rationality and Knowledge (TARK 2009).

Chen, Z.W., Zhao, X.J. (2023). Strategic information suppression in borrowing and pre-lending cognition: Theory and evidence, Games 14, 1-24.

Chung, K.S., Fortnow, L. (2016). Loopholes, Economic Journal 126, 1774–1797.

Copic, J., Galeotti, A. (2007). Awareness equilibrium, mimeo., UCLA.

Cozic, M. (2016). Probablistic unawareness, Games 7, 38.

Dekel, E., Lipman, B., Rustichini, A. (1998). Standard state-space models preclude unawareness, Econometrica 66, 159-173.

Devanur, N.R., Fortnow, L. (2009). A computational theory of awareness and decision making, in: Heifetz, A. (Ed.), Proceedings of the 12th Conference on Theoretical Aspects of Rationality and Knowledge (TARK 2009), 99-107.

Diaye, M.A. and D. Schoch (2010). A generalized state space for unawareness, mimeo., Université de Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. 

Dietrich, F. (2018). Savage's theorem under changing awareness, Journal of Economic Theory 176, 1-54.

van Ditmarsch, H., French, T. (2014). Semantics for knowledge and change of awareness, Journal for Logic, Language, and Information 23, 169-195.

van Ditmarsch, H. and T. French (2011). On the interactions of awareness and certainty, in: D. Wang and M. Reynolds (Eds.), Proceedings of 24th Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI 11), LNCS 7106, Springer, 727-738.

van Ditmarsch, H. and T. French (2011). Becoming aware of propositional variables, in: M. Banerjee and A. Seth (Eds.), ICLA 2011, LNAI 6521, Springer, 204-218.

van Ditmarsch, H. and T. French (2009). Awareness and forgetting of facts and agents, in: P. Boldi and G. Vizzari and G. Pasi and R. Baeza-Yates (Eds.),Proceedings of WI-IAT Workshops 2009, IEEE Press, 478-483. (WorkshopWLIAMAS.)

van Ditmarsch, H., French, T., Velazquez-Quesada, F. R., and Y. N. Wang (2018). Implicit, explicit, and speculative knowledge, Artificial Intelligence 256, 35-67.

van Ditmarsch, H., French, T., Velazquez-Quesada, F. R., and Y. N. Wang (2013). Knowledge, awareness, and bisimulation, in: B.C. Schipper (Ed.), Proceedings of 14th Conference on Theoretical
Aspects of Rationalityand Knowledge (TARK 2013), ACM, 61-70.

van Ditmarsch, H., French, T., and F.R. Velazquez-Quesada (2012). Action models for knowledge and awareness. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Miltiagent Systems (AAMAS 2012), 1091-1098.

Dominiak, A., Tserenjigmid, G. (2022). Ambiguity under growing awareness, Journal of Economic Theory 199, 105256.

Dominiak, A., Tserenjigmid, G. (2018). Belief consistency and invariant risk preferences, Journal of Mathematical Economics 79, 157–162.

Dubus, A. (2020). Asymmetric awareness and heterogeneous agents, Rationality and Society 32, 461-484.

Eichberger, J., Guerdjikova, A. (2023). Cases and states, University of Heidelberg.

Ewerhart, C. (2001). Heterogeneous awareness and the possibility of agreement, mimeo., University of Bonn.

Ewerhart, C. (2001). An example for a game involving unawareness: The tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, mimeo.

Fagin, R., Halpern, J. (1988). Belief, awareness, and limited reasoning, Artificial Intelligence 34, 39-76.

Fang, Y.H. (2011). Games with and without unawareness, mimeo., University of Chicago.

Feinberg, Y. (2021). Games with unawareness, B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics 21, 433-488.

Feinberg, Y. (2004). Subjective reasoning - games with unawareness, mimeo., Stanford University.

Feinberg, Y. (2005). Games with incomplete awareness, mimeo., Stanford University.

Feinberg, Y. (2011). Strategic communication, in: K.R. Apt (Ed.), Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Theoretical Aspects of Rationality and Knowledge (TARK 2011), ACM, 1-11.

Fernández-Fernández, C. (2021). Awareness in logic and epistemology, Springer-Verlag.

Fernández-Fernández, C. (2019). Awareness Logic: an epistemological defense, Kairos. Journal of Philosophy & Science 22, 72-85.

Fernández-Fernández, C., Velázquez-Quesada, F.R. (2021). Awareness of and awareness that: their combination and dynamics, Logic Journal of the IGPL 28, 601-628.

Fernández-Fernández, C., Velázquez-Quesada, F.R. (2018). A formal model for explicit knowledge as awareness-of plus awareness-that, in: Sedlar, I., Bilcha, M. (Eds.), The Logica Yearbook 2018, 101-115.

Filiz-Ozbay, E. (2012). Incorporating unawareness into contract theory, Games and Economic Behavior 76, 181-194.

Frackiewicz, P. (2019). Quantum penny flip game with unawareness, Quantum Information Processing 18, 15.

Frackiewicz, P. (2018). Quantum games with unawareness, Entropy 20, 555.

Frackiewicz, P., Bilski, J. (2019). Quantum games with unawareness with duopoly problems in view, Entropy 21, 1097.

Francetich, A., Schipper, B.C. (2023). Rationalizable screening and disclosure under unawareness, University of California, Davis.

Franke, M. (2014). Pragmatic reasoning about unawareness, Erkenntnis 79, 729-767.

Franke, M. (2010). Modal models for games with unawareness, mimeo., University of Tuebingen.

Franke, M., de Jager, T. (2011). Now that you mention it: Awareness Dynamics in Discourse and Decisions, in: Benz A., Ebert C., Jäger G., van Rooij R. (eds.) Language, Games, and Evolution. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6207. Springer, 60-91.

Franke, M., de Jager, T. (2007). The relevance of awareness, in: Aloni, M., Dekker, P., Roelofsen, F. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 16th Amsterdam Colloqium, 97-102.

Fritz, P., Lederman, H. (2015). Standard state-space models of unawareness, in: Ramanujam, R. (Ed.), Proceedings of the 15. Conference on Theoretical Aspects of Rationality and Knowledge (TARK 2015), Electronic Proceedings in Computer Science, Vol. 215.

Fukuda, S. (2024). On the axiomatization of an unawareness structure from knowing-whether operators, mimeo., Bocconi University.

Fukuda, S. (2023). Strategic games with a possibility correspondence model of belief and unawareness, mimeo., Bocconi University.  

Fukuda, S. (2020). Unawareness without AU introspection, Journal of Mathematical Economics 94, 102456.

Fukuda, S., Kamada, Y. (2023). Unprecedented, mimeo., Bocconi University.

Galanis, S. (2018). Speculation under unawareness, Games and Economic Behavior 109, 598-615.

Galanis, S. (2016). The value of information in risk-sharing environments with unawareness, Games and Economic Behavior 97, 1-18.

Galanis, S. (2015). The value of information under unawareness, Journal of Economic Theory 157, 384-396.

Galanis, S. (2013). Unawareness of theorems, Economic Theory 52, 41-73.

Galanis, S. (2011). Syntactic foundation for unawareness of theorems, Theory and Decision 71, 593-614.

Galanis, S., Kotronis, S. (2021). Updating awareness and information aggregation, B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics 21, 613-635.

Grant, S., Guerdjikova, A., Quiggin, J. (2021). Ambiguity and awareness: A coherent multiple priors model, B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics 21, 571-612.

Grant, S., Kline, J., O’Callaghan, P., Quiggin, J. (2015). Sub-models for interactive unawareness, Theory and Decision 79, 601-613.

Grant, S., Kline, J., Quiggin, J. (2012). Differential awareness and incomplete contracts: A model of contractual disputes, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 82, 494-504.

Grant, S., Meneghel, I., Tourky, R. (2022). Learning under unawareness, Economic Theory 74, 447-475.

Grant, S., Quiggin, J. (2017). The evolution of awareness, Journal of Economic Psychology 63, 86-92, 2017.

Grant, S., Quiggin, J. (2015). A preference model for choice subject to surprise, Theory and Decision 79, 167-180.

Grant, S., Quiggin, J. (2013). Inductive reasoning about unawareness, Economic Theory 54, 717-755.

Grant, S., Quiggin, J. (2013). Bounded awareness, heuristics and the Precautionary Principle, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 93, 17-31.

Grant, S., Quiggin, J. (2008). Bounded rationality and small worlds, mimeo., Rice University.

Grossi, D., Velazquez-Quesada, F.R. (2015). Syntactic awareness in logical dynamics, Synthese 192, 4071–4105.

Grossi, D., Velazquez-Quesada, F.R. (2009). Twelve angry men: A study on the fine-gain of announcements, in: X. He, J. Horty, and E. Pacuit (Eds.), LORI 2009, LNAI 5834, Springer, 147-160.

Guarino, P. (2020). An epistemic analysis of dynamic games with unawareness, Games and Economic Behavior 120, 257-288.

Guerdjikova, A., Quiggin, J. (2021). Financial market equilibrium with bounded awareness, mimeo., University of Grenoble.

Gui, Z.Q., Huang, S., Zhao, X.J. (2024). Financial fraud and investor awareness, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 219, 104-123.

Gui, Z.Q., Huang, S., Zhao, X.J. (2021). Whom to educate? Financial literacy and investor awareness, China Economic Review 67, 101608.

Guthman, R.R. (2023). Imperfect competition as a result of unawareness, mimeo., Alberto Hurtado University.

Halpern, J. (2001). Alternative semantics for unawareness, Games and Economic Behavior 37, 321-339.

Halpern, J., Piermont, E. (2020). Dynamic awareness, Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR2020).

Halpern, J., Piermont, E. (2019). The logic for partial awareness, Proceedings of the Thirty-Third AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence.

Halpern, J., Rego, L.C. (2014). Extensive games with possibly unaware players, Mathematical Social Sciences 70, 42-58.

Halpern, J., Rego, L.C. (2013). Reasoning about knowledge of unawareness revisited, Mathematical Social Sciences 66, 73-84.

Halpern, J., Rego, L.C. (2009). Reasoning about knowledge of unawareness, Games and Economic Behavior 67, 503-525.

Halpern, J., Rego, L.C. (2008). Interactive unawareness revisited, Games and Economic Behavior 62, 232-262.

Halpern, J., Rong, N., Saxena, A. (2010). MDPs with unawareness, Proceedings of the 32nd Conference on Uncertainty in AI, 627-636.

Heifetz, A., Meier, M., Schipper, B.C. (2007/2021). Prudent rationalizability in generalized extensive-form games with unawareness, B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics 21, 525-556.

Heifetz, A., Meier, M., Schipper, B.C. (2013). Dynamic unawareness and rationalizable behavior, Games and Economic Behavior 81, 50-68.

Heifetz, A., Meier, M., Schipper, B.C. (2013). Unawareness, beliefs, and speculative trade, Games and Economic Behavior 77, 100-121. Free Prior PDF version with the universal type space

Heifetz, A., Meier, M., Schipper, B.C. (2008). A canonical model of interactive unawareness, Games and Economic Behavior 62, 304-324. Free PDF

Heifetz, A., Meier, M., Schipper, B.C. (2007). A canonical model for interactive unawareness, in: Theoretical Aspects of Rationality and Knowledge, Proceedings of the 11th Conference (TARK 2007), Dov Samet (Ed.), Presses Universitaires De Louvain, 177-182.

Heifetz, A., Meier, M., Schipper, B.C. (2007). Unawareness, beliefs and games, in: Theoretical Aspects of Rationality and Knowledge, Proceedings of the 11th Conference (TARK 2007), Dov Samet (Ed.), Presses Universitaires De Louvain, 183-192.

Heifetz, A., Meier, M., Schipper, B.C. (2006). Interactive unawareness, Journal of Economic Theory 130, 78-94. Free PDF

Heifetz, A., Meier, M., Schipper, B.C. (2003). Multiperson unawareness, in: Halpern, J.Y. (Ed.), Proceedings of the 9th Conference on Theoretical Aspects of Rationality and Knowledge (TARK 2003), 148-158.

Heinsalu, S. (2014). Universal type structures with unawareness, Games and Economic Behavior 83, 255-266.

Heinsalu, S. (2012). Equivalence of the information structure with unawareness to the logic of awareness, Journal of Economic Theory 147, 2453-2468.

Hernandes, M. (2012). Players who are learning how to play: A Haskell implementation of awareness dynamics,  In: Okumura, M., Bekki, D., Satoh, K. (Eds.), New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence. JSAI-isAI 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 7258, Springer,

Hill, B. (2007). The Logic of Awareness Change, Proceedings of ILCLI International Workshop on Logic and Philosophy of Knowledge, Communication and Action, University of the Basque Country Press.

Hill, B. (2010). Awareness dynamics, Journal of Philosophical Logic 39, 113-137.

Hill, B. (2013). Awareness and equilibrium, Synthese 190, 851-869.

Holliday, W.H. (2022). A partial state-space model for unawareness, mimeo., University of California at Berkeley.

Hoshi, T., Isaac, A. (2010). The strategic equivalence of games with unawareness, in: Grossi, D., Kurzen, L, Velazquez-Quesada, F.R. (Eds), Logic and the interactive rationality, Institute for Logic Language and Computation, 203-225.

Huang, Z.S., Kwast, K. (1991). Awareness, negation and logical omniscience, in J. van Eijck (Ed.), Logics in AI, volume 478 of Lectures Notes in Computer Science, pages 282-300, Springer.

Innes, C., Lacaradis, A. (2020). Learning factored Markov decision processes with unawareness, Proceedings of The 35th Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence Conference, PMLR 115, 123-133.

Konolige, K. (1986). What awareness isn't: A sentential view of implicit and explicit belief, in: J. Halpern (Ed.), Proceedings of the 1st Conference on Theoretical Aspects of Reasoning and Knowledge (TARK 1986), Morgan Kaufmann, 241-250.

Karni, E. (2024). Decisions and discovery, Johns Hopkins University.

Karni, E., Valenzuela-Stookey, Q., Vier
ø, M.-L. (2021). ``Reverse Bayesianism'': A generalization, B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics 21, 557--569.

Karni, E., Vier
ø, M.-L. (2017). Awareness of unawareness: A theory of decision making in the face of ignorance, Journal of Economic Theory 168, 301--328.

Karni, E., Vierø, M.-L. (2015). Probabilistic sophistication and reverse Bayesianism, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 50, 189–208.

Karni, E.,Vierø, M.-L. (2013). "Reverse Bayesianism": A choice-based theory of growing awareness, American Economic Review 103, 2790-2810.

Kawamura, E. (2005). Competitive equilibrium with unawareness in economies with production, Journal of Economic Theory 121, 167-191.

Kochov, A. (2018). A behavioral definition of unforeseen contingencies, Journal of Economic Theory 175, 265–290.

Kubono, Y. (2024). Logic of awareness for nested knowledge, Shizuoka University.

Kubono, Y., Racharak, T., Tojo, S. (2023). Logic of awareness in agent's reasoning, Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART.

Lei, H.R., Zhao, X.J. (2021). Delegation and information disclosure with unforeseen contingencies, B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics 21, 637-656.

Lehrer, E., Teper, R. (2014). Extension rules or what would the sage do?, American Economic Journal: Microeconomics 6, 5-22.

Li J. (2008a). Modeling unawareness with an arbitrary state space, mimeo., University of Pennsylvania.

Li J. (2008b). A note on unawareness and zero probability, mimeo., University of Pennsylvania.

Li J. (2008c). Interactive knowledge with unawareness, mimeo., University of Pennsylvania.

Li J. (2006). Dynamic games of complete information with unawareness, mimeo., University of Pennsylvania.

Li J. (2003/2009). Information structures with unawareness, Journal of Economic Theory 144, 977-993.

Li S.X., Peitz, M., Zhao, X.J. (2016). Information disclosure and consumer awareness, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 128, 209-230.

Li S.X., Peitz, M., Zhao, X.J. (2014). Vertically differentiated duopoly with unaware consumers, Mathematical Social Sciences 70, 59-67.

Li Y.X., Schipper, B.C. (2024). Disclosure under unawareness: An experiment, mimeo., University of California, Davis.

Liu, Z. (2008/2017). Information acquisition in the era of fair disclosure: An application of asymmetric awareness, B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics 17, 20160027.

Liu, Z. (2016). Games with incomplete information when players are partially aware of others' signals, Journal of Mathematical Economics 65, 58-70.

Liu, Z. (2008). The Dirty Face Problem with Unawareness, B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics 8, Article 28.

Liu, Z., Qiu, C. (2011). Consumer unawareness and competitive strategies, mimeo., University of Buffalo.

Lorini, E., Song, P. (2023). A computational grounded logic of awareness, Journal of Logic and Computation 33, 1463-1496. 

Ma, W.J., Schipper, B.C. (2017). Does exposure to unawareness affect risk preferences? A preliminary result, Theory and Decision 83, 245–257.

Mace, N., Clifton, J., Kollin, S. (2023). Open-minded updatelessness, AI Alignment Forum

Mahtani, A. (2021). Awareness growth and dispositional attitudes, Synthese 198, 8981--8997.

Mandotto, M., Severino, F. (2023). Heterogeneous awareness in financial markets, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 216, 26-41.

Meier, M., Schipper, B.C. (2023). Conditional dominance in games with unawareness, mimeo., The University of California, Davis.

Meier, M., Schipper, B.C. (2014). Bayesian games with unawareness and unawareness perfection, Economic Theory 56, 219-249. Free PDF

Meier, M., Schipper, B.C. (2014). Speculative trade under unawareness: The infinite case, Economic Theory Bulletin 2, 147-160. Free PDF

Mengel, F., Tsakas, E., Vostroknutov, A. (2016). Past experience of uncertainty affects risk aversion, Experimental Economics 19, 151–176.

Mengel, F., Tsakas, E., Vostroknukov, A. (2012). Decision making with imperfect knowledge of the state space, mimeo., Maastricht University.

Mengel, F., Tsakas, E., Vostroknukov, A. (2009). Awareness in repeated games, mimeo., Maastricht University.


Modica, S. (2008). Unawareness, priors and posteriors, Decisions in Economics and Finance 31, 81-94.

Modica, S., Rustichini, A. (1999). Unawareness and partitional information structures, Games and Economic Behavior 27, 265-298.

Modica, S., Rustichini, A. (1994). Awareness and partitional information structures, Theory and Decision 37, 107-124.

Modica, S., Rustichini, A., Tallon, J.-M. (1998). Unawareness and bankruptcy: A general equilibrium model, Economic Theory 12, 259-292.

Montiel Olea, J.L. (2008). A characterization of trivial unawareness, mimeo., ITAM.

Nielsen, C. and A. Sebald (2016). Smple unawareness in dynamic psychological games, B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics 16, 1-29.

Ozbay, E. (2008). Unawareness and strategic announcements in games with uncertainty, mimeo., University of Maryland.

Perea, A. (2022). Common belief in rationality in games with unawareness, Mathematical Social Sciences 119, 11-30.

Piermont, E. (2024). Eliciting awareness, mimeo., Royal Holloway.

Piermont, E. (2023). Algebraic semantics for relative truth, awareness, and possibility, Review of Symbolic Logic, forthcoming. 

Piermont, E. (2021). Unforeseen evidence, Journal of Economic Theory 193, 105235.

Piermont, E. (2017). Introspective unawareness and observable choice, Games and Economic Behavior 106, 134--152.

Pinter, M., Udvari, Z. (2011). Generalized type spaces, mimeo., Corvinus University.

Pires, C. (1994/2021). Do I know Omega? An axiomatic model of awareness and knowledge, B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics 21, 395-432.

Proietti, C., Velazquez-Quesada, F.R., Yuste-Ginel, A. (2023). An abstract look at awareness models and their dynamics, in: Verbrugge, R. (Ed.), Theoretical Aspects of Rationality and Knowledge 2023 (TARK 2023), EPTCS 379, 455-469.

Quiggin, J. (2017). Dynamic awareness and zero probability beliefs, Theory and Decision 83, 309-313.

Quiggin, J. (2015). The value of information and the value of awareness, Theory and Decision 80, 167-185.

Quiggin, J., Siddiqi, H. (2014). Differential awareness, financial innovation and financial crises, mimeo., University of Queensland.

Rathke, A.A.T. (2023). On the state-space model of unawareness, mimeo., University of São Paulo.

Rego, L.C., Halpern, J.  (2012). Generalized solution concepts in games with possibly unaware players, International Journal of Game Theory 41, 131-155.

Rego, L.C., Vieira, G.I.A. (2022). Interactive unawareness in the graph model for multilateral conflicts, Discrete Applied Mathematics 318, 31-46.

Rego, L.C., Vieira, G.I.A. (2020). Interactive Unawareness in the graph model for conflict resolution, IEEE Transactions on Systems Man Cybernetics-Systems 50, 829-839.

Rong, N. (2016). Learning in the presence of unawareness, PhD Thesis, Cornell University,

Rong, N., Halpern, J.Y., Saxena, A. (2016). MDPs with unawareness in robotics, Proceedings of the 32nd Conference on Uncertainty in AI, 627-636,

Roussos, J. (2021). Awareness growth and belief revision, mimeo., Institute of Future Studies.

Sadzik, T. (2006/2021). Knowledge, awareness and probabilistic beliefs, B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics 21, 489-524.

Sasaki, Y. (2022). Unawareness of decision criteria in multicriteria games, Mathematical Social Sciences 119, 31–40.

Sasaki, Y. (2017). Generalized Nash equilibrium with stable belief hierarchies in static games with unawareness, Annals of Operations Research 256, 271–284

Sasaki, Y. (2016). An equivalence result on the reduction of games with unawareness, International Game Theory Review 18, 1650009.

Schipper, B.C. (2024). Predicting the unpredictable under subjective expected utility, mimeo., University of California, Davis. 

Schipper, B.C. (2021). Interactive awareness of unawareness, mimeo., University of California, Davis.

Schipper, B.C. (2021). Discovery and equilibrium in games with unawareness, Journal of Economic Theory 198, 105365. Free PDF

Schipper, B.C. (2017). Self-confirming games: Unawareness, discovery, and equilibrium, in: Theoretical Aspects of Rationality and Knowledge, Proceedings of the Sixteens Conference (TARK 2017), Jerome Lang (Ed.), Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science 251, 470–488.

Schipper, B.C. (2016). Network formation in a society with fragmented knowledge and awareness, mimeo., University of California, Davis.

Schipper, B.C. (2016). Kuhn's Theorem for Extensive Games with Unawareness, mimeo., University of California, Davis.

Schipper, B.C. (2015). Awareness, in: Handbook of Epistemic Logic, Chapter 3, H. van Ditmarsch, J.Y. Halpern, W. van der Hoek and B. Kooi (Eds.), College Publications, London, 77–146.

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Financial support via NSF Grant No. 0647811 and ARO Contract W911NF2210282 is gratefully acknowlegded.