Fabrizio Cariani: The Modal Future

Cover: 9781108465472 | The Modal Future | Fabrizio Cariani | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2023

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Beschreibung

It is commonly assumed that we conceive of the past and the future as symmetrical. In this book, Fabrizio Cariani develops a new theory of future-directed discourse and thought that shows that our linguistic and philosophical conceptions of the past and future are, in fact, fundamentally different. Future thought and talk, Cariani suggests, are best understood in terms of a systematic analogy with counterfactual thought and talk, and are not just mirror images of the past. Cariani makes this case by developing detailed formal semantic theories as well as by advancing less technical views about the nature of future-directed judgment and prediction. His book addresses in a thought-provoking way several important debates in contemporary philosophy, and his synthesis of parallel threads of research will benefit scholars in the philosophy of language, metaphysics, epistemology, linguistics and cognitive science.

Über den Autor

Fabrizio Cariani is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Maryland, College Park. He has published extensively on the philosophy of language, epistemology and logic, and is editor of the journal Philosopher's Imprint.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; Part I. Background: 1. The symmetric paradigm; 2. Symmetric semantics in an asymmetric world; Part II. The Road to Selection Semantics: 3. The modal challenge; 4. Modality without quantification; 5. Basic selection semantics; Part III. Developing Selection Semantics: 6. Between will and might; 7. Future orientation; 8. Neo-Stalnakerian conditionals; Part IV. Assertion, Prediction, and the Future: 9. On predicting; 10. Assertion troubles; 11. Thin red lines without tears; Part V. Future Cognition and Epistemology: Some Themes: 12. Imagining and simulating the future; 13. On the direct evidence inference.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2023
Fachbereich:	Allgemeines
Genre:	Importe , Philosophie
Jahrhundert:	Antike
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Thema:	Lexika
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9781108465472
ISBN-10:	1108465471
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Cariani, Fabrizio
Hersteller:	Cambridge University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	229 x 152 x 17 mm
Von/Mit:	Fabrizio Cariani
Erscheinungsdatum:	05.01.2023
Gewicht:	0,466 kg