Modal Future - A Theory of Future-Directed Thought and Talk

List of contents

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.

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Foreword

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

Product details

• Authors: Fabrizio Cariani, Fabrizio (University of Maryland Cariani
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2022
• EAN: 9781108465472
• ISBN: 978-1-108-46547-2
• No. of pages: 318
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Philosophy of Language, PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge