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Facing the Future: Agents and Choices in Our Indeterminist World

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Facing the Future: Agents and Choices in Our Indeterminist World - Belnap, Nuel, and Perloff, Michael, and Xu, Ming
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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 ...

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Facing the Future: Agents and Choices in Our Indeterminist World 2001, Oxford University Press, USA, Oxford, England

ISBN-13: 9780195138788

Hardcover