Nuel Belnap on Indeterminism and Free Action

This volume seeks to further the use of formal methods in clarifying one of the central problems of philosophy: that of our free human agency and its place in our indeterministic world. It celebrates the important contributions made in this area by Nuel Belnap, American logician and philosopher. Phi...

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Coauteur: SpringerLink (Online service)
Andere auteurs: Müller, Thomas (Redacteur)
Formaat: Elektronisch E-boek
Taal:Engels
Gepubliceerd in: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
Reeks:Outstanding Contributions to Logic, 2
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Online toegang:http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01754-9
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Inhoudsopgave:
  • Introduction: The many branches of Belnap’s knowledge; Müller, Thomas
  • Decisions in branching time; Bartha; Paul
  • Internalizing case-relative truth in CIFOL+; Belnap, Nuel
  • A stit Logic Analysis of Morally Lucky and Legally Lucky Action Outcomes; Broersen, Jan
  • Worlds Enough, and Time: Musings on Foundations; Brown, Mark
  • Open Futures in the Foundations of Propositional Logic; Garson, James W
  • On Saying What Will Be; Green, Mitchell
  • The Intelligibility Question For Free Will: Agency, Choice And Branching Time; Kane, Robert
  • What William of Ockham and Luis de Molina would have said to Nuel Belnap: A Discussion of some Arguments Against “The Thin Red Line”; Øhrstrøm, Peter
  • Branching for general relativists; Placek, Tomasz
  • Some examples formulated in a `seeing to it that' logic: Illustrations, observations, problems; Sergot, Marek
  • In Retrospect: Can BST models be reinterpreted for what decisions, speciation events and ontogeny might have in common?; Strobach, Niko
  • Theory of Possible Ancestry in the Style of Nuel Belnap’s Branching Space-Time; Pleitz, Martin and Strobach, Niko.-Connecting Logics of Choice and Change; van Benthem, Johan and Pacuit, Eric
  • Intentionality and Minimal Rationality in the Logic of Action; Vanderveken; Daniel
  • Group Strategies and Independence; Xu, Ming
  • Interview with Nuel Belnap.