Fabrizio Cariani

Modal Future (eBook, ePUB)

A Theory of Future-Directed Thought and Talk

• Format: ePub

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. 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108571463
• Artikelnr.: 62737603

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.