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person1990s-present

Ming Xu

Disciplines:
logic
philosophy of action

Summary

Chinese-American logician who contributed to the development of the stit (sees to it that) theory of agency and branching-time logic.

Core Contribution

Co-developed and extended stit theory; contributed to the axiomatization of stit logics and to the formal analysis of agency in branching time.

Notable Works & Achievements

Facing the Future

Decidability of Deliberative STIT Theories

Historical Influences

Nuel Belnap

Intellectual Lineage

Analytic Logic

Contemporaries & Peers

Nuel Belnap Michael Perloff

Minds Influenced

No recorded minds influenced.

Intellectual Posterity

Stit Logic

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