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Facing the Future

Agents and Choices in Our Indeterminist World

Ming Xu author Nuel Belnap author Michael Perloff author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Published:16th Aug '01

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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.

ISBN: 9780195138788

Dimensions: 152mm x 229mm x 33mm

Weight: 930g

520 pages