Facing the Future

Agents and Choices in Our Indeterminist World

Nuel Belnap, Michael Perloff, Ming Xu (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

520 Seiten

2001
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-513878-8 (ISBN)

Infos

In this work, the authors 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, deontic logic, strategies, determinism, and promising assertion.

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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, deontic logic, strategies, determinism, and promising assertion. One of the work's provocative conclusions is that one, actual future does not exist; instead, all possible futures are on par with one another.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.8.2001
• Zusatzinfo: 39 line illus
• Verlagsort: Oxford
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 152 x 229 mm
• Gewicht: 930 g
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Logik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
• ISBN-10: 0-19-513878-3 / 0195138783
• ISBN-13: 978-0-19-513878-8 / 9780195138788
• Zustand: Neuware