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Around the Tree

Semantic and Metaphysical Issues Concerning Branching and the Open Future

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  • First edited volume presently on a hotly debated topic
  • Contributors are a mix of internationally recognized philosophers and young promising researchers
  • The core topics addressed by the volume can meet the interests of any teacher or graduate student working in the area of philosophy of language, philosophical logic, or metaphysics ?

Part of the book series: Synthese Library (SYLI, volume 361)

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About this book

Over the past few years, the tree model of time has been widely employed to deal with issues concerning the semantics of tensed discourse. The thought that has motivated its adoption is that the most plausible way to make sense of indeterminism is to conceive of future possibilities as branches that depart from a common trunk, constituted by the past and the present. However, the thought still needs to be further articulated and defended, and several important questions remain open, such as the question of how actuality can be understood and formally represented in a branching framework. The present volume is intended to be a 360 degree reflection on the tree model. The contributions is gathers concern the model and its alternatives, both from a semantic and from a metaphysical point of view. ​

Editors and Affiliations

  • Philosophy, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

    Fabrice Correia

  • Humanities, University of L’Aquila, L’Aquila, Italy

    Andrea Iacona

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Around the Tree

  • Book Subtitle: Semantic and Metaphysical Issues Concerning Branching and the Open Future

  • Editors: Fabrice Correia, Andrea Iacona

  • Series Title: Synthese Library

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5167-5

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-5166-8Published: 29 November 2012

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-017-8161-9Published: 14 December 2014

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-5167-5Published: 30 November 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0166-6991

  • Series E-ISSN: 2542-8292

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 168

  • Topics: Philosophy of Language, Metaphysics, Logic

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