Around the Tree
Semantic and Metaphysical Issues Concerning Branching and the Open Future
1st Edition
Published on 30. November 2012
VIII, 168 pages
978-94-007-5167-5 (ISBN)
Description
Over the past few years, the tree model of time has been widely employed to deal with issues concerning the semantics of tensed discourse. The thought that has motivated its adoption is that the most plausible way to make sense of indeterminism is to conceive of future possibilities as branches that depart from a common trunk, constituted by the past and the present. However, the thought still needs to be further articulated and defended, and several important questions remain open, such as the question of how actuality can be understood and formally represented in a branching framework. The present volume is intended to be a 360 degree reflection on the tree model. The contributions is gathers concern the model and its alternatives, both from a semantic and from a metaphysical point of view.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Dordrecht
Netherlands
Publishing group
Springer Netherland
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Reflowable
Illustrations
VIII, 168 p.
File size
2,07 MB
ISBN-13
978-94-007-5167-5 (9789400751675)
DOI
10.1007/978-94-007-5167-5
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Fabrice Correia | Andrea Iacona
Around the Tree
Semantic and Metaphysical Issues Concerning Branching and the Open Future
Book
12/2014
Springer
€106.99
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Fabrice Correia | Andrea Iacona
Around the Tree
Semantic and Metaphysical Issues Concerning Branching and the Open Future
Book
11/2012
Springer
€106.99
Shipment within 15-20 days
Content
Preface.- Manuel García-Carpintero: Relativism, the Open Future, and Propositional Truth.- Andrea Iacona: Timeless Truth.- Sven Rosenkranz: Determinism, the Open Future and Branching Time.- E. J. Lowe: Branching Time and Temporal Unity.- Craig Bourne & Emily Caddick: Fictional Branching Time?.- Storrs McCall: The Open Future, and its Exploitation by Rational Agents.- Andrea Borghini & Giuliano Torrengo: The Metaphysics of the Thin Red Line.- Ned Markosian: The Truth About the Past and the Future.- Fabrice Correia: Non-Proxy Reductions of Eternalist Discourse.
