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Facing the future : agents and choices in our indeterminist world /
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, determinis...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2001.
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| Colección: | OUP E-Books.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- I: Introduction to stit
- 1 Stit: A canonical form for agentives
- 1A Agentives
- 1B Stit: Simple cases
- 1C Grammar of the modal logic of agency
- 1D Mini-history of the modal logic of agency
- 1E Conclusion and summary
- 2 Stit: Introductory theory, semantics, and applications
- 2A Theory and semantics: The two stits
- 2B Applications of stit, with many pictures
- 3 Small yet important differences from earlier proposals
- 3A Von Wright
- 3B Chisholm
- 3C Kenny
- 3D Castañeda
- 3E Davidson
- 3F Conclusion
- 4 Stit and the imperative
- 4A The theory of fiats.
- 4B Ross's paradox and stit
- 4C Chellas's theory
- 4D Agentive constructions
- 4E Negations of imperatives
- 4F The many varieties of imperatives
- 4G Embedding imperatives
- 4H Conclusion
- 5 Promising: Stits, claims, and strategies
- 5A From stit to promising
- 5B From RR to promising
- 5C Strategic content of promises and word-givings
- II: Foundations of indeterminism
- 6 Indeterminism and the Thin Red Line
- 6A Preliminary considerations
- 6B Parameters of truth
- 6C The assertion problem
- 6D The Thin Red Line
- 6E Time's wingèd chariot hurries near.
- 7 Agents and choices in branching time with instants
- 7A Theory of branching time
- 7B Theoretical reflections on indeterminism
- 7C Theory of agents and choices
- 7D Domain
- 8 Indexical semantics under indeterminism
- 8A Sources
- 8B Structure parameters: The ""world"" of the speakers
- 8C Interpretation and model: The ""language"" of the speakers
- 8D Points of evaluation, and policies
- 8E Generic semantic ideas
- 8F Semantics for stit-free locutions
- 8G Clauses for stit functors
- III: Applications of the achievement stit
- 9 Could have done otherwise.
- 9A Could have been and might have been
- 9B Could have done and might have done
- 9C Might have been otherwise
- 9D Might not have done it
- 9E Could not have avoided doing
- 9F Could have prevented
- 9G Could have refrained
- 9H Might have refrained
- 9I Had available a strategy for not doing
- 9J Summary
- 10 Multiple and joint agency
- 10A Preliminary facts
- 10B Other-agent nested stits
- 10C Joint agency: Plain and strict
- 10D Other-agent nested joint stits
- IV: Applications of the deliberative stit
- 11 Conditional obligation, deontic paradoxes, and stit.
- 11A Technical preliminaries
- 11B Semantics of obligation
- 11C Completeness
- 11D Conditional obligation
- 11E O -statements versus O-statements
- 11F The Good Samaritan
- 11G Contrary-to-duty obligations
- 11H Problems with the proposed semantics of obligation
- 12 Marcus and the problem of nested deontic modalities
- 12A The parking problem
- 12B The form of obligations
- 12C The Anderson/dstit simplification
- 12D The form of prohibitions
- 12E Generalized prohibitions
- 12F Generalization on agents
- 12G Temporal generalization
- 12H The outer ought
- V: Strategies.