Talking about actions

DOI10.1007/BF00671565MaRDI QIDQ1115852zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Krister Segerberg

Publication date 1988

Published in Studia Logica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00671565

zbMATH Keywords

automatoncausalitydeliberate actionsdeontic logiceventintentional actionsprocessstate-of-affairstense operators

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations (03A05) Other nonclassical logic (03B60)

Review text

This is a brief sketch of the author's recent studies in deontic logic. The universe is considered as a kind of an automaton with different ``total states. A calculation of a program is a path in the set of all states, and there is ``nature's choice function whose value c(\(\alpha\),p) is the continuation of the path p according to the program \(\alpha\). Agents in the world have their own wills; a formal analogue of a will is a ``routine. There is also the ``nature's aggregation function C such that \(C(r_ 1,...,r_ n)\) is the program resulting from routines \(r_ 1,...,r_ n\). There are three kinds of facts about the world: a ``state-of-affairs is a set of states, an ``event is a set of paths, a ``process is a special set of events. In this context some tense operators are introduced (e.g., ``the event E is occurring). Some non-formal discussions concerning deliberate actions, intentional actions, and causality are given.

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