Facing the Future: Agents and Choices in Our Indeterminist World

by Nuel D. Belnap

Here is an important new theory of human action, a theory that assumes actions are founded on choices made by agents who face an open future. It is a theory that makes indeterminism not only intelligible but illuminating. Tools from philosophy of language and philosophical logic help generate a full-scale account of agents "seeing to it that." The authors then proceed to clarify a variety of action-related topics such as determinism vs. indeterminism,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195138783
• ISBN13: 9780195138788
• Release Date: August 2001
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 520 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"