Facing the future : agents and choices in our indeterminist world /
Belnap, Nuel, 1930-
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. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001. - 1 online resource (xvi, 501 pages) : illustrations - - OUP E-Books. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 475-482) and index.
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.
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.
English.
1423762274 (electronic bk.) 9781423762270 (electronic bk.) 9780195138788 (alk. paper) 0195138783 (alk. paper) 1280481072 9781280481079 9786610481071 6610481075 0195350073 9780195350074
00064995
Agent (Philosophy)
Choice (Psychology)
Free will and determinism.
Choice Behavior
Personal Autonomy
Choix (Psychologie)
Libre arbitre et déterminisme.
PHILOSOPHY--Movements--Humanism.
Agent (Philosophy)
Choice (Psychology)
Free will and determinism.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
B105.A35 / B45 2001eb
128/.4
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. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001. - 1 online resource (xvi, 501 pages) : illustrations - - OUP E-Books. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 475-482) and index.
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.
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.
English.
1423762274 (electronic bk.) 9781423762270 (electronic bk.) 9780195138788 (alk. paper) 0195138783 (alk. paper) 1280481072 9781280481079 9786610481071 6610481075 0195350073 9780195350074
00064995
Agent (Philosophy)
Choice (Psychology)
Free will and determinism.
Choice Behavior
Personal Autonomy
Choix (Psychologie)
Libre arbitre et déterminisme.
PHILOSOPHY--Movements--Humanism.
Agent (Philosophy)
Choice (Psychology)
Free will and determinism.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
B105.A35 / B45 2001eb
128/.4