Concrete transitions

Belnap, Nuel (1999) Concrete transitions.

Abstract

Following von Wright, ``transitions'' are needed for
understanding agency. I indicate how von Wright's account
of transitions should be adapted to take account of
objective indeterminism, using the idea of branching
space-time. The essential point is the need to locate
transitions not merely in space-time, but concretely amid
the indeterministic, causally structured possibilities of
our (only) world. (This is a ``postprint'' of Belnap 1999, as cited in the paper. The page numbers do not, of course, match those of the original.)