Around the Tree Semantic and Metaphysical Issues Concerning Branching and the Open Future /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Correia, Fabrice (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Iacona, Andrea (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Σειρά: Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science ; 361
• Θέματα: Philosophy.; Logic.; Metaphysics.; Language and languages > Philosophy.; Philosophy of Language.

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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.