Facing the future : agents and choices in our indeterminist world / Nuel Belnap, Michael Perloff, Ming Xu ; with contributions by Paul Bartha, Mitchell Green, John Horty.
2001
B105.A35 B45 2001eb
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Title
Facing the future : agents and choices in our indeterminist world / Nuel Belnap, Michael Perloff, Ming Xu ; with contributions by Paul Bartha, Mitchell Green, John Horty.
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ISBN
1423762274 (electronic bk.)
9781423762270 (electronic bk.)
9780195138788 (alk. paper)
0195138783 (alk. paper)
1280481072
9781280481079
9786610481071
6610481075
0195350073
9780195350074
9781423762270 (electronic bk.)
9780195138788 (alk. paper)
0195138783 (alk. paper)
1280481072
9781280481079
9786610481071
6610481075
0195350073
9780195350074
Imprint
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.
Language
English
Language Note
English.
Description
1 online resource (xvi, 501 pages) : illustrations
Call Number
B105.A35 B45 2001eb
System Control No.
(OCoLC)65183236
Summary
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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 475-482) and index.
Formatted Contents Note
I: Introduction to stit
1 Stit: A canonical form for agentives
1A Agentives
1B Stit: Simple cases
1C Grammar of the modal logic of agency
1D Mini-history of the modal logic of agency
1E Conclusion and summary
2 Stit: Introductory theory, semantics, and applications
2A Theory and semantics: The two stits
2B Applications of stit, with many pictures
3 Small yet important differences from earlier proposals
3A Von Wright
3B Chisholm
3C Kenny
3D Castañeda
3E Davidson
3F Conclusion
4 Stit and the imperative
4A The theory of fiats.
4B Ross's paradox and stit
4C Chellas's theory
4D Agentive constructions
4E Negations of imperatives
4F The many varieties of imperatives
4G Embedding imperatives
4H Conclusion
5 Promising: Stits, claims, and strategies
5A From stit to promising
5B From RR to promising
5C Strategic content of promises and word-givings
II: Foundations of indeterminism
6 Indeterminism and the Thin Red Line
6A Preliminary considerations
6B Parameters of truth
6C The assertion problem
6D The Thin Red Line
6E Time's wingèd chariot hurries near.
7 Agents and choices in branching time with instants
7A Theory of branching time
7B Theoretical reflections on indeterminism
7C Theory of agents and choices
7D Domain
8 Indexical semantics under indeterminism
8A Sources
8B Structure parameters: The ""world"" of the speakers
8C Interpretation and model: The ""language"" of the speakers
8D Points of evaluation, and policies
8E Generic semantic ideas
8F Semantics for stit-free locutions
8G Clauses for stit functors
III: Applications of the achievement stit
9 Could have done otherwise.
9A Could have been and might have been
9B Could have done and might have done
9C Might have been otherwise
9D Might not have done it
9E Could not have avoided doing
9F Could have prevented
9G Could have refrained
9H Might have refrained
9I Had available a strategy for not doing
9J Summary
10 Multiple and joint agency
10A Preliminary facts
10B Other-agent nested stits
10C Joint agency: Plain and strict
10D Other-agent nested joint stits
IV: Applications of the deliberative stit
11 Conditional obligation, deontic paradoxes, and stit.
11A Technical preliminaries
11B Semantics of obligation
11C Completeness
11D Conditional obligation
11E O -statements versus O-statements
11F The Good Samaritan
11G Contrary-to-duty obligations
11H Problems with the proposed semantics of obligation
12 Marcus and the problem of nested deontic modalities
12A The parking problem
12B The form of obligations
12C The Anderson/dstit simplification
12D The form of prohibitions
12E Generalized prohibitions
12F Generalization on agents
12G Temporal generalization
12H The outer ought
V: Strategies.
1 Stit: A canonical form for agentives
1A Agentives
1B Stit: Simple cases
1C Grammar of the modal logic of agency
1D Mini-history of the modal logic of agency
1E Conclusion and summary
2 Stit: Introductory theory, semantics, and applications
2A Theory and semantics: The two stits
2B Applications of stit, with many pictures
3 Small yet important differences from earlier proposals
3A Von Wright
3B Chisholm
3C Kenny
3D Castañeda
3E Davidson
3F Conclusion
4 Stit and the imperative
4A The theory of fiats.
4B Ross's paradox and stit
4C Chellas's theory
4D Agentive constructions
4E Negations of imperatives
4F The many varieties of imperatives
4G Embedding imperatives
4H Conclusion
5 Promising: Stits, claims, and strategies
5A From stit to promising
5B From RR to promising
5C Strategic content of promises and word-givings
II: Foundations of indeterminism
6 Indeterminism and the Thin Red Line
6A Preliminary considerations
6B Parameters of truth
6C The assertion problem
6D The Thin Red Line
6E Time's wingèd chariot hurries near.
7 Agents and choices in branching time with instants
7A Theory of branching time
7B Theoretical reflections on indeterminism
7C Theory of agents and choices
7D Domain
8 Indexical semantics under indeterminism
8A Sources
8B Structure parameters: The ""world"" of the speakers
8C Interpretation and model: The ""language"" of the speakers
8D Points of evaluation, and policies
8E Generic semantic ideas
8F Semantics for stit-free locutions
8G Clauses for stit functors
III: Applications of the achievement stit
9 Could have done otherwise.
9A Could have been and might have been
9B Could have done and might have done
9C Might have been otherwise
9D Might not have done it
9E Could not have avoided doing
9F Could have prevented
9G Could have refrained
9H Might have refrained
9I Had available a strategy for not doing
9J Summary
10 Multiple and joint agency
10A Preliminary facts
10B Other-agent nested stits
10C Joint agency: Plain and strict
10D Other-agent nested joint stits
IV: Applications of the deliberative stit
11 Conditional obligation, deontic paradoxes, and stit.
11A Technical preliminaries
11B Semantics of obligation
11C Completeness
11D Conditional obligation
11E O -statements versus O-statements
11F The Good Samaritan
11G Contrary-to-duty obligations
11H Problems with the proposed semantics of obligation
12 Marcus and the problem of nested deontic modalities
12A The parking problem
12B The form of obligations
12C The Anderson/dstit simplification
12D The form of prohibitions
12E Generalized prohibitions
12F Generalization on agents
12G Temporal generalization
12H The outer ought
V: Strategies.
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