Transient Truths
An Essay in the Metaphysics of Propositions
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 31 May 2012
- ISBN 9780199796908
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages208 pages
- Size 160x239x12 mm
- Weight 408 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
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. This book 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.
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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 mental states bear on the content of mental states, an analysis of how we pass on information in temporally extended conversations, and a revival of a Priorian tense logic. The view suggests a broader view according to which some types of representation have a determinate truth-value only relative to features about the subject who does the representing. If this view is right, successful semantic representation requires an eye on our own position in the world.
Transient Truths is a welcome addition to the philosophical literature that is bound to reignite the discussion about the temporal features of propositions.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgment
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 Classical Objections
2.2. Recent Debate
2.3. Temporalism and Belief Reports
2.4. Temporalism and Belief Retention
2.5. Belief De Se
2.6. The Argument from 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 Time
4.1. The Time Analysis and Temporalism
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. The Counter Evidence Explained
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. Partee Sentences
5.5. Pragmatic Rules for Noun Denotation
5.6. Double Access Sentences
5.7. Location Operators
5.8. Signpost
6. 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. An Argument against Quantifier Analyses
6.5. 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. C & H's Main Argument against Relativism
8.2. The Argument from Perception
8.3. Non-Indexical Contextualism
8.4. Temporalism Defended
8.5. Signpost
Closing Remarks
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