@techreport{TR-DCC-94-08, number = {DCC-94-08}, author = {Wainer, Jacques}, title = {Reasoning about Another Agent Through Empathy}, month = {September}, year = {1994}, institution = {Department of Computer Science, University of Campinas}, note = {In English, 9 pages. \par\selectlanguage{english}\textbf{Abstract} This paper formalizes the idea of reasoning about the knowledge of another agent by ``putting oneself on the other's shoes,'' and then attributing to the other agent the conclusions that follows from that. We call this form of reasoning empathy. We formalize empathy for monotonic knowledge and show that the same principles would apply to nonmonotonic knowledge, that is reasoning about the knowledge of nonmonotonic agents. } }