Freedom and Enforcement in Action A Study in Formal Action Theory /

• Main Author: Czelakowski, Janusz (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: Trends in Logic, Studia Logica Library, 42
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Logic.; Mathematical logic.; Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages.; Mathematical Logic and Foundations.

Action theory is the object of growing attention in a variety of scientific disciplines, and this is the first volume to offer a synthetic view of the range of approaches possible in the topic. The volume focuses on the nexus of formal action theory with a startlingly diverse set of subjects, which...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Part 1. Elements of Formal Action Theory
• Chapter 1. Elementary Action Systems
• Chapter 2. Situational Action Systems
• Chapter 3. Ordered Action Systems
• Part 2. Freedom and Enforcement in Action
• Chapter 4. Action and Deontology
• Chapter 5. Stit Frames as Action Systems
• Chapter 6. Epistemic Aspects of Action Systems
• Bibliography
• Index.