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ACTION TYPES IN STIT SEMANTICS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 August 2017

JOHN HORTY  and
ERIC PACUIT
JOHN HORTY*
Affiliation:
University of Maryland
ERIC PACUIT*
Affiliation:
University of Maryland
*
*PHILOSOPHY DEPARTMENT UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK, MD 20742, USA E-mail: horty@umd.edu
†PHILOSOPHY DEPARTMENT UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK, MD 20742, USA E-mail: epacuit@umd.edu
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Abstract

Stit semantics grows out of a modal tradition in the logic of action that concentrates on an operator representing the agency of an individual in seeing to it that some state of affairs holds, rather than on the actions the individual performs in doing so. The purpose of this paper is to enrich stit semantics, and especially epistemic stit semantics, by supplementing the overall framework with an explicit treatment of action types. We show how the introduction of these new action types allows us to define a modal operator capturing an epistemic sense of agency, and how this operator can be used to express an epistemic sense of ability.

Keywords

03B4203B4403B45stit semanticsability action types
Type
Research Article
Information
The Review of Symbolic Logic , Volume 10 , Issue 4 , December 2017 , pp. 617 - 637
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Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 2017 

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