Patrick Todd

The Open Future

Why Future Contingents Are All False

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book launches a sustained defense of a radical interpretation of the doctrine of the open future. Patrick Todd argues that all claims about undetermined aspects of the future are simply false.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. November 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 466g
• ISBN-13: 9780192897916
• ISBN-10: 0192897918
• Artikelnr.: 61937663

Autorenporträt

Patrick Todd received his PhD in 2011 from the University of California, Riverside. He has written about a range of philosophical issues, including free will and determinism, moral responsibility, time and omniscience, and the open future. In 2013, he took up a permanent position at the University of Edinburgh as a Chancellor's Fellow and Lecturer.

Inhaltsangabe

The Open Future: Introduction to a Classical Approach
1: Grounding the Open Future
2: Three Models of the Undetermined Future
3: The Open Future, Classical Style
4: The Will/Would Connection
5: Omniscience and the Future
6: Betting on the Open Future
7: with Brian Rabern: Future Contingents and the Logic of Temporal Omniscience
8: The Assertion Problem