Data di Pubblicazione:
2020
Citazione:
The Invisible Thin Red Line / G. Torrengo, S. Iaquinto. - In: PACIFIC PHILOSOPHICAL QUARTERLY. - ISSN 1468-0114. - 101:3(2020), pp. 354-382. [10.1111/papq.12314]
Abstract:
The aim of this paper is to argue that the adoption of an unrestricted principle of bivalence is compatible with a metaphysics that (i) denies that the future is real, (ii) adopts nomological indeterminism and (iii) exploits a branching structure to provide a semantics for future contingent claims. To this end, we elaborate what we call Flow Fragmentalism, a view inspired by Kit Fine's non-standard tense realism, according to which reality is divided up into maximally coherent collections of tensed facts. In this way, we show how to reconcile a genuinely A-theoretic branching time model with the idea that there is a branch corresponding to the thin red line, that is, the branch that will turn out to be the actual future history of the world.
Tipologia IRIS:
01 - Articolo su periodico
Keywords:
time; presentism
Elenco autori:
G. Torrengo, S. Iaquinto
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