Facing the Future : Agents and Choices in Our Indeterminist World - Nuel Belnap

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Facing the Future

Agents and Choices in Our Indeterminist World

By: Nuel Belnap, Michael Perloff, Ming Xu

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Hardcover | 1 May 2001

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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.

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Introduction to stit
Stit: A canonical form for agentives	p. 3
Stit: Introductory theory, semantics, and applications	p. 28
Small yet important differences from earlier proposals	p. 59
Stit and the imperative	p. 82
Promising: Stits, claims, and strategies	p. 97
Foundations of indeterminism
Indeterminism and the Thin Red Line	p. 133
Agents and choices in branching time with instants	p. 177
Indexical semantics under indeterminism	p. 220
Applications of the achievement stit
Could have done otherwise	p. 255
Multiple and joint agency	p. 271
Applications of the deliberative stit
Conditional obligation, deontic paradoxes, and stit	p. 295
Marcus and the problem of nested deontic modalities	p. 318
Strategies
An austere theory of strategies	p. 341
Deontic kinematics and austere strategies	p. 364
Proofs and models
Decidability of one-agent achievement-stit theory with refref	p. 381
On the basic one-agent achievement-stit theory	p. 415
Decidability of many-agent deliberative-stit theories	p. 435
Doing and refraining from refraining	p. 451
App: Lists for reference	p. 459
Bibliography	p. 475
Index	p. 483
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