Open Future - Why Future Contingents Are All False

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.

List of contents

• 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

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Patrick Todd, Patrick (Chancellor''s Fellow and Lecturer Todd, Todd Patrick
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.09.2021
• EAN: 9780192897916
• ISBN: 978-0-19-289791-6
• No. of pages: 226
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Philosophy of Language, PHILOSOPHY / Free Will & Determinism, PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics, PHILOSOPHY / Language, MATHEMATICS / History & Philosophy, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, Philosophy of religion, Philosophy: logic