People
Michael Perloff, Lecturer and Undergraduate Advisor
Theory of Action
PhD, Pittsburgh, 1974
Michael Perloff is lecturer in philosophy and assistant chair of the department. Before returning to the University of Pittsburgh, he taught at the University of Illinois-Chicago. His work in the logic of agents adopts a modal approach to agency, with agents represented in a branching time structure as facing a future replete with real possiblities, some of which are realized by agents making choices. It is central to the theory that choices and the actions they ground are radically indeterministic. He is co-author, with Nuel Belnap and Ming Xu, of Facing the Future: Agents and Choices in Our Indeterministic World He has published articles in Theoria, Synthese, American Philosophical Quarterly, Studia Logica, and Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence
Select Publications
"Taking agents seriously." Cybernetics and Systems 34 (2003).
Facing the future: agents and choices in our indeterminist world (with Nuel Belnap and Ming Xu), Oxford, 2001.
