Facing the Future
Agents and Choices in Our Indeterminist World
ISBN13: 9780195138788ISBN10: 0195138783
Hardback,
520 pages
Jul 2001,
In Stock
Price:
$110.00 (04)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.Product Details
520 pages; 39 line illus; 6-1/8 x 9-1/4; ISBN13: 978-0-19-513878-8ISBN10: 0-19-513878-3About the Author(s)
Nuel Belnap, Professor of Philosophy , Michael Perloff, Professor of Philosophy , and Ming Xu, Visiting Assistant Instructor in the Department of Philosophy, all at University of Pittsburgh
