Facing the Future: Agents and Choices in Our Indeterminist World

by Nuel D. Belnap, Michael Perloff, Ming Xu

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, determinism, and promising assertion. One of the work's provocative conclusions is that one, actual future does not exist; instead, all possible futures are on par with one another.

Genres: Philosophy, Logic

501 pages, ebook

First published January 1, 2001