Facing the Future Agents and Choices in Our Indeterminist World

Name: Facing the Future Agents and Choices in Our Indeterminist World
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ISBN: 9780195138788

ISBN-10: 0195138783

ISBN-13: 9780195138788

Edition: 2001

Authors: Nuel Belnap, Michael Perloff, Ming Xu

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Here is an important new theory of human action, a theory that assumes actions are founded on choices made by agents who face an open future. It is a theory that makes indeterminism not only intelligible but illuminating. Tools from philosophy of language and philosophical logic help generate a full-scale account of agents "seeing to it that." The authors then proceed to clarify a variety of action-related topics such as determinism vs. indeterminism, imperatives, promises, strategies, joint agency, "could have done otherwise," deontic constructions, and assertions about a not yet settled future.

Book details

List price: $215.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/2/2001
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 520
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 1.42" tall
Weight: 1.760
Language: English




Introduction to stit



Stit: A canonical form for agentives



Stit: Introductory theory, semantics, and applications



Small yet important differences from earlier proposals



Stit and the imperative



Promising: Stits, claims, and strategies



Foundations of indeterminism



Indeterminism and the Thin Red Line



Agents and choices in branching time with instants



Indexical semantics under indeterminism



Applications of the achievement stit



Could have done otherwise



Multiple and joint agency



Applications of the deliberative stit



Conditional obligation, deontic paradoxes, and stit



Marcus and the problem of nested deontic modalities



Strategies



An austere theory of strategies



Deontic kinematics and austere strategies



Proofs and models



Decidability of one-agent achievement-stit theory with refref



On the basic one-agent achievement-stit theory



Decidability of many-agent deliberative-stit theories



Doing and refraining from refraining


App: Lists for reference


Bibliography


Index