The Open Future: Why Future Contingents are All False 1st Edition

The Open Future: Why Future Contingents are All False 1st Edition – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9780192897916,0192897918,9780192652768, 0192652761

Product details:

• ISBN-10: 0192652761
• ISBN-13: 9780192652768
• Author: Patrick Todd

In The Open Future: Why Future Contingents are all False, Patrick Todd launches a sustained defense of a radical interpretation of the doctrine of the open future. He argues that all claims about undetermined aspects of the future are simply false. Todd argues that this theory is metaphysically more parsimonius than its rivals, and that objections to its logical and practical coherence are much overblown. Todd shows how proponents of this view can maintain classical logic, and argues that the view has substantial advantages over Ockhamist, supervaluationist, and relativist alternatives.

Table contents:

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 Future Contingents and the Logic of Temporal Omniscience

8 The Assertion Problem

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