Facing the Future Agents and Choices in Our Indeterminist World

Nuel D. Belnap, Michael Perloff, Ming Xu

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Publisher's Synopsis

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.

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Book information

ISBN:	9780195138788
Publisher:	OUP OXFORD
Imprint:	Oxford University Press
Pub date:	16 Aug 2001
DEWEY:	128.4
DEWEY edition:	21
Language:	English
Number of pages:	501
Weight:	918g
Height:	237mm
Width:	160mm
Spine width:	39mm