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Within International Relations scholarship, the nature of
international organizations and their relationship with each other
and nation-states has been widely contested. This edited volume
brings together a team of experts to shed new light on
inter-organizational relations in world politics. The book covers
areas from the rule of law and international security to business
and sport. Through its analysis, it demonstrates that, just as
inter-organizations relations themselves are diverse and complex,
research on this topic should also be pluralistic in order to draw
new and valuable results and insights.
This volume seeks to further the use of formal methods in
clarifying one of the central problems of philosophy: that of our
free human agency and its place in our indeterministic world. It
celebrates the important contributions made in this area by Nuel
Belnap, American logician and philosopher. Philosophically,
indeterminism and free action can seem far apart, but in Belnap’s
work, they are intimately linked. This book explores their
philosophical interconnectedness through a selection of original
research papers that build forth on Belnap’s logical and
philosophical work. Some contributions take the form of critical
discussions of Belnap's published work, some develop points made in
his publications in new directions, and others provide additional
insights on the topics of indeterminism and free action. In Nuel
Belnap’s work on indeterminism and free action, three formal
frameworks figure prominently: the simple branching histories
framework known as "branching time;" its relativistic
spatio-temporal extension, branching space-times; and the “seeing
to it that” (stit ) logic of agency. As those frameworks provide
the formal background for the contributed papers, the volume
introduction gives an overview of the current state of their
development. It also introduces case-intensional first order logic
(CIFOL), a general intensional logic offering resources for a
first-order extension of the mentioned frameworks and a recent
research focus of Belnap’s. The volume also contains an extended
biographical interview with Nuel Belnap.
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