Fatalism and the logic of time / Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zagzebski, Linda Trinkaus, 1946- author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Time--Philosophy.

Time.

Modality (Logic).

Fate and fatalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (99 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2024]

Summary:

In 'Fatalism and the Logic of Time', Linda Zagzebski examines two interpretations of the necessity of the past. One interpretation is the modal necessity of the past, and the other interpretation is the cause of closure of the past. She argues that the combination of the necessity of the past with the transfer of necessity principle is inconsistent with the truth of any proposition about the past that entails a proposition about the future. As such, the problem is much broader than fatalism. It is a problem in the logic of time. All arrows of time, as well as the arrows of physics, arise from the human experience of before and after - but that experience does not itself require an arrow.

Contents:

Part one. The (incoherent) root of traditional fatalist arguments. Beginning with theological fatalism

Unraveling theological fatalism

Reactions and consequences

Part two. Fatalism and the causal structure of time. Revisiting the necessity of the past

Backward causation and backward counterfactual power

Conclusion to parts one and two

Part three. Does time have an arrow?

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on August 5, 2024).

ISBN:

9780197786710

0197786715

9780197786697

0197786693

9780197786703

0197786707

OCLC:

1450907026