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Facing the Future: Agents and Choices in Our Indeterminist World
by Xu, Ming
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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, imperatives, promises, strategies, joint agency, "could have done otherwise," deontic constructions, and assertions about a not yet settled future.
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- Oxford University Press Brand
- Aug 2, 2001 Pub Date:
- 0195138783 ISBN-10:
- 9780195138788 ISBN-13:
- English Language
- 9 in * 1.4 in * 6 in Dimensions:
- 2 lb Weight:
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