The modal future : a theory of future-directed thought and talk
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The modal future : a theory of future-directed thought and talk
Cambridge University Press, 2021
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 278-290) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
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.
目次
- 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.
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