Around the Tree
Semantic and Metaphysical Issues Concerning Branching and the Open Future
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Beschreibung
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.
First edited volume presently on a hotly debated topic Contributors are a mix of internationally recognized philosophers and young promising researchers The core topics addressed by the volume can meet the interests of any teacher or graduate student working in the area of philosophy of language, philosophical logic, or metaphysics ?
Autor*in
Fabrice Correia
Themen in »Around the Tree«
Actual future Branching spacetime Branching time Branching time structure Determinate truth Ersatz times Future contingents Growing block theory Identity across time Indeterminacy Indeterminism and action Moment-history pair Open Future Persistence through time Possible course of events