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- Celebrates the important contributions made in the areas of indeterminism and free action by Nuel Belnap, American logician and philosopher
- Includes an introduction to case-intensional first order logic (CIFOL), a recent research focus of Belnap’s, as reflected in his own contribution to this volume?
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Outstanding Contributions to Logic (OCTR, volume 2)
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
- Action to free will
- Action with non-determinate effect
- Analysis of propositional contents of attitudes
- Assertion problem
- BST structures and structures of FTA
- BST with a new PCP
- Basic Theory of Possible Ancestry
- Branching Time and Ontic Frugality
- CIFOL+ and elementary ranges
- Core features of Ockhamist branching time
- Fields and Outcomes Bordering Fields
- Future-directed speech acts
- How to generalize BST1992
- Intuitionistic Logic
- Logical Frameworks for Agency
- Modeling indeterminacy of action
- Open Future Semantics
- Stit Frames
- Syntax and semantics
- Thin Red Line theory
- branching time
- case-relative truth in CIFOL+
- concept of case relative truth
- concepts of speech act theory
- decision theory and deontic logic
- modal realism objection
About this book
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.
Philosophically, indeterminism and free action can seem far apart, but in Belnap’s work, they are intimately linked. This book explores their philosophical interconnectedness through a selection of original research papers that build forth on Belnap’s logical and philosophical work. Some contributions take the form of critical discussions of Belnap's published work, some develop points made in his publications in new directions, and others provide additional insights on the topics of indeterminism and free action.
In Nuel Belnap’s work on indeterminism and free action, three formal frameworks figure prominently: the simple branching histories framework known as "branching time;"its relativistic spatio-temporal extension, branching space-times; and the “seeing to it that” (stit ) logic of agency. As those frameworks provide the formal background for the contributed papers, the volume introduction gives an overview of the current state of their development. It also introduces case-intensional first order logic (CIFOL), a general intensional logic offering resources for a first-order extension of the mentioned frameworks and a recent research focus of Belnap’s. The volume also contains an extended biographical interview with Nuel Belnap.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Nuel Belnap on Indeterminism and Free Action
Editors: Thomas Müller
Series Title: Outstanding Contributions to Logic
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01754-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and the Author(s) 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-01753-2Published: 03 April 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-34945-9Published: 03 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-01754-9Published: 21 March 2014
Series ISSN: 2211-2758
Series E-ISSN: 2211-2766
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 409
Number of Illustrations: 42 b/w illustrations
Topics: Logic, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Science