Agents necessitating effects in newtonian time and space: from power and opportunity to effectivity.

We extend stit logic by adding a spatial dimension. This enables us to distinguish between powers and opportunities of agents. Powers are agent-specific and do not depend on an agent's location. Opportunities do depend on locations, and are the same for every agent. The central idea is to define the...

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Published in:	Synthese Vol. 196; no. 1; pp. 31 - 69
Main Author:	Broersen, Jan
Format:	Article
Published:	Springer Nature Jan2019
Subjects:	Agent (Philosophy) Spacetime Action theory (Psychology) Powers (Law) Opportunity
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