Transient truths : an essay in the metaphysics of propositions / Berit Brogaard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brogaard, Berit.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language and languages--Philosophy.

Language and languages.

Semantics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (206 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

What are the things that we assert, believe, and desire? The orthodox view among philosophers is eternalism: these are contents that have their truth-values eternally. Transient Truths provides the first book-length exposition and defense of the opposing view, temporalism: these are contents that can change their truth-values along with changes in the world. Berit Brogaard argues that temporal contents are contents and propositions in the full sense. This project involves a thorough analysis of how we talk about and retain mental states over time, an examination of how the phenomenology of men

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Characterizing Temporalism; 1.1. Times in Propositions vs. Time Neutrality; 1.2. Truth Conditions; 1.3. Temporal Propositions Are Truth-Evaluable; 1.4. Signpost; 2. Reporting Belief; 2.1. The Classic Objections; 2.2. Recent Debate; 2.3. Temporalism and Belief Reports; 2.4. Temporalism and Belief Retention; 2.5. Belief De Se; 2.6. Eternalism and Belief Retention; 2.7. The Accident; 2.8. Signpost; 3. Disagreeing Across Time; 3.1. Passing on Information Across Time; 3.2. Arguments from Disagreement Against Temporalism; 3.3. Signpost

4. Representing Time4.1. Temporalism and the Time Analysis; 4.2. The Event Analysis; 4.3. The Empirical Evidence Against Traditional Tense Logic; 4.4. Time Adverbials; 4.5. Composite Tense Operators; 4.6. Span Operators; 4.7. The Ellipsis Theory; 4.8. The Temporal Anaphora Hypothesis; 4.9. Explaining the Counterevidence; 4.10. Signpost; 5. Reviving Priorian Tense Logic; 5.1. The SOT Rule; 5.2. Later-than-Matrix Interpretations and Kamp/Vlach Sentences; 5.3. The PTQ Fragment; 5.4. Pragmatic Rules for Noun Denotation; 5.5. Partee Sentences; 5.6. Double-Access Sentences; 5.7. Location Operators

5.8. Signpost6. Embedding Under Tense Operators; 6.1. Kaplan's Argument; 6.2. Objections to Kaplan's Argument; 6.3. The Redundancy of the Present Tense; 6.4. Monsters; 6.5. An Argument Against a Quantifier Analysis of the Tenses; 6.6. Signpost; 7. Representing Eternally; 7.1. Two Kinds of Content; 7.2. Past- and Future-Tensed Sentences; 7.3. Conjoined Propositions; 7.4. Two Kinds of Propositions; 7.5. Eternal Propositions and Metaphysical Eternalism; 7.6. Signpost; 8. Representing the World Egocentrically; 8.1. Cappelen and Hawthorne's Main Arguments Against Relativism

8.2. The Argument from Perception8.3. Non-Indexical Contextualism; 8.4. Temporalism Defended; 8.5. Signpost; Closing Remarks; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on Apr. 19, 2012).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-280-59567-1

9786613625502

0-19-979692-0

OCLC:

793996704