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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Among the topics of discussion in this world, none are more common than those concerning the achievements and refrainings, obligations and prohibitions, successes and failures of the agents with whom we share a common space. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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busy choosers, stit sentence, achievement stit, restricted complement thesis, deontic kinematics, busy choice sequence, stit theory, austere strategics, refref equivalence, slit sentence, choice between undivided histories, deliberative stit, stit approach, assertability thesis, nested stits, normal form thesis, nested deontic modalities, immobile parameters, joint stits, deontic equivalences, paraphrase thesis, agentive sentences, undefined locution, linear tense logic, nbc structures Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- The Realm of Rights by Judith Jarvis Thomson on page 97, and page 106
- The Lady of Shalott: Alfred Lord Tennyson's Poem. by Alfred Tennyson, Baron, Tennyson on page 183
- Nicomachean Ethics (Library of Essential Reading) by Aristotle on page 36
- Thin Red Line by Rh Value Publishing on page 132
- Lady of Shalott by Alfred Tennyson on page 183
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