Around the Tree

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vii

   PDF

2. Relativism, the Open Future, and Propositional Truth

   • Manuel García-Carpintero

   Pages 1-27

3. Timeless Truth

   • Andrea Iacona

   Pages 29-45

4. Determinism, the Open Future and Branching Time

   • Sven Rosenkranz

   Pages 47-72

5. Branching Time and Temporal Unity

   • E. J. Lowe

   Pages 73-80

6. Fictional Branching Time?

   • Craig Bourne, Emily Caddick Bourne

   Pages 81-94

7. The Open Future and Its Exploitation by Rational Agents

   • Storrs McCall

   Pages 95-104

8. The Metaphysics of the Thin Red Line

   • Andrea Borghini, Giuliano Torrengo

   Pages 105-125

9. The Truth About the Past and the Future

   • Ned Markosian

   Pages 127-141

10. Non-proxy Reductions of Eternalist Discourse

    • Fabrice Correia

    Pages 143-168

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. ​

• 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

• Philosophy, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

  Fabrice Correia

• Humanities, University of L’Aquila, L’Aquila, Italy

  Andrea Iacona

Policies and ethics