Facing the Future: Agents and Choices in Our Indeterminist World, Nuel Belnap (Professor of Philosophy),Michael Perloff (Lecturer),Ming Xu (Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy, all at University of Pittsburgh),Ming Xu (9780195138788) — Readings Books
Facing the Future: Agents and Choices in Our Indeterminist World
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Facing the Future: Agents and Choices in Our Indeterminist World

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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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Format
Hardback
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Country
United States
Date
1 May 2001
Pages
520
ISBN
9780195138788

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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Format
Hardback
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Country
United States
Date
1 May 2001
Pages
520
ISBN
9780195138788