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

Currently unavailable, currently targeted to be due back around 12th August 2026, but could change

Facing the Future cover

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: 229mm x 152mm x 33mm

Weight: 930g

520 pages