Facing the Future: Agents and Choices in Our Indeterminist World

by Nuel Belnap, Michael Perloff, and Ming Xu

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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.
  • ISBN10 0195138783
  • ISBN13 9780195138788
  • Publish Date 16 August 2001 (first published 1 January 2001)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Oxford University Press Inc
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 520
  • Language English