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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing
2014, 2014
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2014 |
| Series: | Outstanding Contributions to Logic
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 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