书目名称 | Ockhamism and Philosophy of Time | 副标题 | Semantic and Metaphy | 编辑 | Alessio Santelli | 视频video | | 概述 | Discusses fundamental topics in contemporary Ockhamism.Shows how Ockhamism can impact other areas of research.Investigates how William of Ockham construed time and future contingency | 丛书名称 | Synthese Library | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | .This book discusses fundamental topics on contemporary Ockhamism. The collected essays show how contemporary Ockhamism can impact areas of research such as semantics, metaphysics and also the philosophy of science. In addition, the volume hosts one historian of Medieval philosophy who investigates the way in which William of Ockham “in flesh and bone” construed time and, more generally, future contingency..The essays explore the different meanings of this theory. They cover three main topics, in particular. The first examines the thesis that sentences and propositions about the future have a definite truth value, without any ensuing commitment to determinism or fatalism. The second topic looks at the problem whether the branching-time model needs to countenance a privileged branch (the so-called Thin Red Line). Finally, the third topic considers the idea that there are so-called soft facts. These would be the subject matter of sentences and propositions verballyabout the present or the past, but metaphysically about a later time, and which might change in the future..Overall, the book provides an updated and rigorous idea of the debate about Ockhamism. It gives readers a deeper un | 出版日期 | Book 2022 | 关键词 | Future Contingents Ockham; Ockhamism Philosophy Time; Thin Red Line Ockham; Assertion Problem Ockham; Fa | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-90359-6 | isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-90361-9 | isbn_ebook | 978-3-030-90359-6Series ISSN 0166-6991 Series E-ISSN 2542-8292 | issn_series | 0166-6991 | copyright | Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022 |
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