Around the Tree: Semantic and Metaphysical Issues Concerning Branching and the Open Future: 361 (Synthese Library, 361) - Hardcover

 
9789400751668: Around the Tree: Semantic and Metaphysical Issues Concerning Branching and the Open Future: 361 (Synthese Library, 361)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 9400751664 ISBN 13: 9789400751668
Publisher: Springer, 2012

Synopsis

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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Publisher
Springer
Publication date
2012
Language
English
ISBN 10 
9400751664
ISBN 13 
9789400751668
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
176
Editor
Correia Fabrice, Iacona Andrea

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