Facing the Future - Agents and Choices in Our Indeterminist World (Hardcover)

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The authors attempt to construct a logical analysis of human actions by focusing on actions based on choice. By looking at the so-called "stit" sentence (i.e. so-and-so is "seeing to it that"), which they take as a fundamental idiom in the way we discuss action, they provide formal semantics for "stit" in terms of a time continuum whereby a given action is true if an agent had made a certain choice at an earlier point within the process.

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The authors attempt to construct a logical analysis of human actions by focusing on actions based on choice. By looking at the so-called "stit" sentence (i.e. so-and-so is "seeing to it that"), which they take as a fundamental idiom in the way we discuss action, they provide formal semantics for "stit" in terms of a time continuum whereby a given action is true if an agent had made a certain choice at an earlier point within the process.

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Imprint

Oxford UniversityPress

Country of origin

United States

Release date

August 2001

Availability

Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days

First published

August 2001

Authors

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Dimensions

242 x 165 x 33mm (L x W x T)

Format

Hardcover

Pages

520

ISBN-13

978-0-19-513878-8

Barcode

9780195138788

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LSN

0-19-513878-3



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