On bringing it about

DOI10.1007/BF01306966MaRDI QIDQ1908787zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Brian F. Chellas

Publication date 16 July 1996

Published in Journal of Philosophical Logic (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01306966

zbMATH Keywords

action operatorlogic of agency

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations (03A05) Modal logic (including the logic of norms) (03B45) Other nonclassical logic (03B60)

Review text

I set out Segerberg's account of ``bringing it about and focus on one of the two special axioms for his action operator. Much of \textit{K. Segerberg}'s work since ``Bringing it about [ibid. 18, No. 4, 327-347 (1989; Zbl 0696.03005)], particularly in ``Accepting failure in dynamic logic [Proc. 9th Int. Congr. of Logic, Methodol. and Philos. Sci., Uppsala 1991, Stud. Logic Found. Math. 134, 327-349 (1994; Zbl 0838.03027)]\ and ``Action incompleteness [Stud. Log. 51, No. 3/4, 533-550 (1992; Zbl 0786.03004)], has been devoted to the question of strengthening the second axiom. As I shall explain, I believe the axiom is already too strong, and so it is more important to ask whether it can be maintained at all.

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