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Record Nr.

UNINA9910438335803321

Titolo

Around the tree : semantic and metaphysical issues concerning branching and the open future / / Fabrice Correia, Andrea Iacona, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Dordrecht ; ; New York, : Springer, c2013

ISBN

1-283-86564-5

94-007-5167-2

Edizione

[1st ed. 2013.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (172 p.)

Collana

Synthese library : studies in epistemology, logic, methodology, and philosophy of science ; ; v. 361

Altri autori (Persone)

CorreiaFabrice

IaconaAndrea

Disciplina

160

Soggetti

Semantics

Metaphysics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Preface -- Manuel GarcĂ­a-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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.