Abstract
In the first part of this paper, we analyze the concept of open future. Our
main thesis is that the indeterminateness of the future crucially depends
on the perspective from which the propositions containing the future operator
are evaluated. For this reason, we offer a perspectival temporal semantics,
in which propositions are evaluated with respect to two indexes:
the time of evaluation and the time of the perspective. This demonstrates
the compatibility of this semantics with both a tensed and a tenseless
metaphysics of time. In the second part, we apply the theoretical device of
perspectival semantics to the problem of divine foreknowledge, demonstrating
that this semantics proves to be promising in the solution of the
foreknowledge problem. Finally, we discuss this solution from the point
of view of both a tenseless and a tensed conception of the universe.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | The Metaphysics of Time Logic and Philosophy of Time, Vol. 4 |
| Editors | P Hasle, D Jakobsen, P Øhrstrøm |
| Pages | 365-385 |
| Number of pages | 21 |
| Publication status | Published - 2020 |
Keywords
- Fragmentalism
- Open Future
- Semantics
- Temporal Logic