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Facing the Future: Agents and Choices in Our Indeterminist World
Facing the Future: Agents and Choices in Our Indeterminist World, 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, Facing the Future: Agents and Choices in Our Indeterminist World has a rating of 4 stars
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Facing the Future: Agents and Choices in Our Indeterminist World, 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, Facing the Future: Agents and Choices in Our Indeterminist World
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  • Facing the Future: Agents and Choices in Our Indeterminist World
  • Written by author Nuel Belnap
  • Published by Oxford University Press, USA, August 2001
  • 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
  • In this elucidating work, the authors attempt to construct a logical analysis of human actions, focusing on those actions based on choice. Using their examination of "seeing to it that," they investigate a large number of topics, including imperatives, de
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IIntroduction to stit
1Stit: A canonical form for agentives3
2Stit: Introductory theory, semantics, and applications28
3Small yet important differences from earlier proposals59
4Stit and the imperative82
5Promising: Stits, claims, and strategies97
IIFoundations of indeterminism
6Indeterminism and the Thin Red Line133
7Agents and choices in branching time with instants177
8Indexical semantics under indeterminism220
IIIApplications of the achievement stit
9Could have done otherwise255
10Multiple and joint agency271
IVApplications of the deliberative stit
11Conditional obligation, deontic paradoxes, and stit295
12Marcus and the problem of nested deontic modalities318
VStrategies
13An austere theory of strategies341
14Deontic kinematics and austere strategies364
VIProofs and models
15Decidability of one-agent achievement-stit theory with refref381
16On the basic one-agent achievement-stit theory415
17Decidability of many-agent deliberative-stit theories435
18Doing and refraining from refraining451
App: Lists for reference459
Bibliography475
Index483


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