
Facing the Future
Agents and Choices in Our Indeterminist World
Oxford University Press
Published on 16. August 2001
Book
Hardback
520 pages
978-0-19-513878-8 (ISBN)
Description
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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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
39 line illus
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 35 mm
Weight
987 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-513878-8 (9780195138788)
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Nuel Belnap | Michael Perloff | Ming Xu
Facing the Future
Agents and Choices in Our Indeterminist World
E-Book
08/2001
1st Edition
OUP eBook
€117.99
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Persons
Author
Professor of PhilosophyProfessor of Philosophy
LecturerLecturer
Visiting Assistant Professor of PhilosophyVisiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy, all at University of Pittsburgh