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- First edited volume presently on a hotly debated topic
- Contributors are a mix of internationally recognized philosophers and young promising researchers
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Part of the book series: Synthese Library (SYLI, volume 361)
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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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Keywords
- 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
- Propositional Truth
- Relativism / absolutism about truth
- Semantics of temporal discourse
- Supervaluational semantics
- Temporal logic
- Temporal ontology
- Tense logic
- Thin red line
- Truthmaker problem for presentism
- Truthmakers for temporary truths
- Two-dimensional semantics
- Utterance truth
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Front Matter
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Around the Tree
Book Subtitle: Semantic and Metaphysical Issues Concerning Branching and the Open Future
Editors: Fabrice Correia, Andrea Iacona
Series Title: Synthese Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5167-5
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-5166-8Published: 29 November 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-017-8161-9Published: 14 December 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-5167-5Published: 30 November 2012
Series ISSN: 0166-6991
Series E-ISSN: 2542-8292
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 168
Topics: Philosophy of Language, Metaphysics, Logic