Fabrizio Cariani

Modal Future (eBook, PDF)

A Theory of Future-Directed Thought and Talk

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

A study of the interactions between the semantics, epistemology and metaphysics of the future.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108672801
• Artikelnr.: 70911806

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.