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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: open future
    sub title: why future contingents are all false
  name:
    name part: Todd, Patrick
    name part: 1983-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2021
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (viii, 212 pages) : illustrations.
  abstract: 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.
  abstract: 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, one according to which all claims about undetermined aspects of the future are simply false. Todd argues that this theory is metaphysically more parsimonious 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. Todd draws inspiration from theories of "neg-raising" in linguistics, from debates about omniscience within the philosophy of religion, and defends a crucial comparison between his account of future contingents and certain more familiar theories of counterfactuals. Further, Todd defends his theory of the open future from the charges that it cannot make sense of our practices of betting, makes our credences regarding future contingents unintelligible, and is at odds with proper norms of assertion. In the end, in Todd's classical open future, we have a compelling new solution to the longstanding "problem of future contingents".
  table of contents: Cover -- The Open Future: Why Future Contingents are All False -- Copyright -- Preface -- Contents -- The Open Future: Introduction to a Classical Approach -- 1: Grounding the Open Future -- 1.1 Truth and Reality -- 1.2 The Problem of the Past -- 1.3 The Future in Particular -- 1.4 Conclusion -- 2: Three Models of the Undetermined Future -- 2.1 Three Models -- 2.2 Future Directed Facts -- 2.3 The Thin Red Line -- 2.4 Semantics for Will -- 2.5 A Comparison: Cows in Barns -- 2.6 Model (III) Once More -- 2.7 Peirceanism -- 2.8 All False -- 2.9 A Flow-Chart -- 2.10 Objection: Missing Ambiguities?
  table of contents: 2.11 Costs and Benefits: A Preliminary Take -- 3: The Open Future, Classical Style -- 3.1 Scopelessness -- 3.2 Neg-Raising: A Primer -- 3.3 Interlude: Pure Semantic Competence -- 3.4 Against Scopelessness: Quantifiers -- 3.5 One or the Other/Neither -- 3.6 A Prediction of Salience -- 3.7 The Dialectic: Circular Arguments -- 3.8 Some Comparisons with Other Modals -- 3.9 Some Objections -- 3.10 Interim Conclusion -- 3.11 Supervaluationism: A Comparison -- 3.12 The Past and the Future: A Comparison -- 3.13 No Fact of the Matter? -- 4: The Will/Would Connection -- 4.1 Grounding
  table of contents: 4.2 Williamson on Conditional Excluded Middle -- 4.3 A Brief Interlude on "Might" Arguments -- 4.4 Models and Semantics Once More -- 4.5 Flow-Charts -- 4.6 The Neg-Raising Inference -- 4.7 On an Argument for CEM from Quantifiers -- 4.8 Should -- 4.9 Conclusion -- 5: Omniscience and the Future -- 5.1 Two Versions of Open Theism: Open Future, and Limited Foreknowledge -- 5.2 The Logic of Omniscience -- 5.3 Perfect Anticipation: Variations on a Priorean Theme -- 5.4 God's Tickets -- 5.5 From Omni-Accuracy to Omni-Correctness -- 5.6 Shifting Gears -- 6: Betting on the Open Future
  table of contents: 6.1 Prior on Bets, Guesses, and Predictions -- 6.2 Betting as a Normative Act -- 6.3 Promising -- 6.4 Open-Futurist Agreements -- 6.5 Ambiguities -- 6.6 Omniscience -- 6.7 Transition to the Credence Problem -- 6.8 The First Problem: Zero Credence -- 6.9 Moore-Paradoxes? -- 6.10 The Second Problem: The Linguistic Data -- 6.11 The Will/Would Connection Once More -- 6.12 Probability in Fiction -- 6.13 Unifying the Three Cases -- 6.14 Conclusion -- 7: Future Contingents and the Logic of Temporal Omniscience -- 7.1 Open-Closurism -- 7.2 The Logic of Temporal Omniscience
  table of contents: 7.3 The Costs of Omni-Accuracy -- 7.4 The Costs of Omni-Correctness -- 7.5 Ruling Out Omniscience? -- 7.6 Revoking Omniscience -- 7.7 Conclusion -- Appendix: Denying Retro-Closure -- 8: The Assertion Problem -- 8.1 The First Problem: Must Open Futurists Change Their Ways? -- 8.2 Another Assertion Problem -- 8.3 Asserting What Is False, but Communicating What Is True -- 8.4 Weakened Readings -- 8.5 Tendencies and the Future -- 8.6 Interlude on Skepticism -- 8.7 Inshallah -- 8.8 Conclusion -- References -- Index
  note: Patrick Todd.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Future contingents (Logic)
  subject:
    topic: Futurs contingents (Logique)
  subject:
    topic: Logic
  subject:
    topic: Language
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: RELIGION
  subject:
    topic: Future contingents (Logic)
  classification: BC21.F86 T63 2021
  classification: 123
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Open future
    name:
      name part: Todd, Patrick.
    origin info:
      publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2021
      edition: First Edition.
    identifier: (OCoLC)1245927701
  identifier: 9780192652751
  identifier: 0192652753
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  record info:
    record content source: EBLCP
    record creation date: 210821
    record change date: 20260318163132.5
    record identifier: in00005695979
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng