Nuel Belnap
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1121833 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Nuel Belnap |
| PRENOMES | Nuel |
| SOBRENOME | Belnap |
| ASSINATURA | BELNAP N |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Pittsburgh |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 17 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 101 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1978 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2012 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Newtonian determinism to branching space-times indeterminism in two moves
Indeterminism is a modal notion
The paper defends an Aristotelian notion of indeterminism, as rigorously formulated in the framework of branching space-times (BST) of Belnap (1992), against criticism by Earman’s (2008) based on a model-theoretic characterization of indeterminism. It delineates BST branching against the background provided by Earman’s (2008) distinction between individual versus ensemble branching. Partly in order to motivate our responses to Earman, it describe…
Branching with Uncertain Semantics
published
Funny business in branching space-times
Propensities and probabilities
How Causal Probabilities Might Fit into Our Objectively Indeterministic World
Prosentence, Revision, Truth, and Paradox
A Theory of Causation
Branching space-times (BST) theory, as developed elsewhere, permits a sound and rigorously definable notion of ‘originating cause’ or causa causans—a type of transition event—of an outcome event. Mackie has famously suggested that causes form a family of ‘inus’ conditions, where an inus condition is ‘an insufficient but non-redundant part of an unnecessary but sufficient condition’. In this essay the needed concepts of BST theory are developed in…
Facing the Future
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 o…
The Revision Theory of Truth
Indeterminism and the Thin Red Line
Central to the idea of indeterminism is this: At a given moment in the history of the world there are a variety of ways in which affairs might carry on. Before the toss of the coin there are two things that could happen, either Heads up or Tails up. This possibility is not merely epistemic, but in re., In spite of this it seems clear that the outcomes Heads and Tails could not be temporally related. Although Heads, if it happened, would be subseq…
The Revision Theory of Truth
In this rigorous investigation into the logic of truth Anil Gupta and Nuel Belnap explain how the concept of truth works in both ordinary and pathological contexts. The latter include, for instance, contexts that generate Liar Paradox. Their central claim is that truth is a circular concept. In support of this claim they provide a widely applicable theory (the "revision theory") of circular concepts. Under the revision theory, when truth is seen …
Branching space-time
Backwards and Forwards in the Modal Logic of Agency
By logic I mean logic whose grammar includes an intensional construct having sentences as both inputs and outputs. A logic of intends that some such construct express agency (or action), as, for example, the English construct a sees to it that Q. In the following four sections I (1) give brief retrospective, (2) restate some of the claims of Belnap and Perloff 1988, (3) motivate the desirability of modal logic of agency, and (4) draw ten pictures…
Before refraining
Seeing to it that
Entailment. The Logic of Relevance and Necessity. Volume I
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Entailment. The Logic of Relevance and Necessity. Volume I. By Alan Ross Anderson and Nuel D. Belnap, Jr. (Princeton and London: Princeton U.P. 1976, dated 1975. Pp. xxxii + 542. Price £13.70) Michael Clark Michael Clark Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 28, Issue 111, April 1978, Pages 172–174, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219366 Publis…
Branching space-time
Indeterminism and the Thin Red Line
Central to the idea of indeterminism is this: At a given moment in the history of the world there are a variety of ways in which affairs might carry on. Before the toss of the coin there are two things that could happen, either Heads up or Tails up. This possibility is not merely epistemic, but in re., In spite of this it seems clear that the outcomes Heads and Tails could not be temporally related. Although Heads, if it happened, would be subseq…
Indeterminism is a modal notion
The paper defends an Aristotelian notion of indeterminism, as rigorously formulated in the framework of branching space-times (BST) of Belnap (1992), against criticism by Earman’s (2008) based on a model-theoretic characterization of indeterminism. It delineates BST branching against the background provided by Earman’s (2008) distinction between individual versus ensemble branching. Partly in order to motivate our responses to Earman, it describe…
A Theory of Causation
Branching space-times (BST) theory, as developed elsewhere, permits a sound and rigorously definable notion of ‘originating cause’ or causa causans—a type of transition event—of an outcome event. Mackie has famously suggested that causes form a family of ‘inus’ conditions, where an inus condition is ‘an insufficient but non-redundant part of an unnecessary but sufficient condition’. In this essay the needed concepts of BST theory are developed in…
How Causal Probabilities Might Fit into Our Objectively Indeterministic World
Before refraining
Branching with Uncertain Semantics
published
Funny business in branching space-times
Backwards and Forwards in the Modal Logic of Agency
By logic I mean logic whose grammar includes an intensional construct having sentences as both inputs and outputs. A logic of intends that some such construct express agency (or action), as, for example, the English construct a sees to it that Q. In the following four sections I (1) give brief retrospective, (2) restate some of the claims of Belnap and Perloff 1988, (3) motivate the desirability of modal logic of agency, and (4) draw ten pictures…
Newtonian determinism to branching space-times indeterminism in two moves
Entailment. The Logic of Relevance and Necessity. Volume I
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Entailment. The Logic of Relevance and Necessity. Volume I. By Alan Ross Anderson and Nuel D. Belnap, Jr. (Princeton and London: Princeton U.P. 1976, dated 1975. Pp. xxxii + 542. Price £13.70) Michael Clark Michael Clark Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 28, Issue 111, April 1978, Pages 172–174, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219366 Publis…
Seeing to it that
Backwards and Forwards in the Modal Logic of Agency
By logic I mean logic whose grammar includes an intensional construct having sentences as both inputs and outputs. A logic of intends that some such construct express agency (or action), as, for example, the English construct a sees to it that Q. In the following four sections I (1) give brief retrospective, (2) restate some of the claims of Belnap and Perloff 1988, (3) motivate the desirability of modal logic of agency, and (4) draw ten pictures…
Before refraining
Branching space-time
The Revision Theory of Truth
In this rigorous investigation into the logic of truth Anil Gupta and Nuel Belnap explain how the concept of truth works in both ordinary and pathological contexts. The latter include, for instance, contexts that generate Liar Paradox. Their central claim is that truth is a circular concept. In support of this claim they provide a widely applicable theory (the "revision theory") of circular concepts. Under the revision theory, when truth is seen …
Indeterminism and the Thin Red Line
Central to the idea of indeterminism is this: At a given moment in the history of the world there are a variety of ways in which affairs might carry on. Before the toss of the coin there are two things that could happen, either Heads up or Tails up. This possibility is not merely epistemic, but in re., In spite of this it seems clear that the outcomes Heads and Tails could not be temporally related. Although Heads, if it happened, would be subseq…
The Revision Theory of Truth
Facing the Future
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 o…
A Theory of Causation
Branching space-times (BST) theory, as developed elsewhere, permits a sound and rigorously definable notion of ‘originating cause’ or causa causans—a type of transition event—of an outcome event. Mackie has famously suggested that causes form a family of ‘inus’ conditions, where an inus condition is ‘an insufficient but non-redundant part of an unnecessary but sufficient condition’. In this essay the needed concepts of BST theory are developed in…
How Causal Probabilities Might Fit into Our Objectively Indeterministic World
Prosentence, Revision, Truth, and Paradox
Propensities and probabilities
Funny business in branching space-times
Branching with Uncertain Semantics
published
Newtonian determinism to branching space-times indeterminism in two moves
Indeterminism is a modal notion
The paper defends an Aristotelian notion of indeterminism, as rigorously formulated in the framework of branching space-times (BST) of Belnap (1992), against criticism by Earman’s (2008) based on a model-theoretic characterization of indeterminism. It delineates BST branching against the background provided by Earman’s (2008) distinction between individual versus ensemble branching. Partly in order to motivate our responses to Earman, it describe…
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