Fabrizio Cariani (College Park University of Maryland)

The Modal Future

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 468g
• ISBN-13: 9781108465472
• ISBN-10: 1108465471
• Artikelnr.: 66876822

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.