Facing the Future: Agents and Choices in Our Indeterminist World Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Facing the Future: Agents and Choices in Our Indeterminist World Book

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.Read More

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  • 0195138783
  • 9780195138788
  • Nuel Belnap, Michael Perloff, Ming Xu
  • 16 August 2001
  • OUP USA
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 520
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