{"product_id":"the-world-time-parallel-tense-and-modality-in-logic-and-metaphysics-hardback-9781107017474","title":"The World-Time Parallel; Tense and Modality in Logic and Metaphysics (Hardback) 9781107017474","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe World-Time Parallel\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eTense and Modality in Logic and Metaphysics\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe only book to investigate the parallel between what happens at other times and what happens in other possible worlds.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eA. A. Rini (Author), M. J. Cresswell (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781107017474, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 19 January 2012\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e278 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.4 x 16 x 1.8 cm, 0.58 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'The book is rich with careful detail. It is full of places where various confusions are cleared away.' Philosophy in Review\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIs what could have happened but never did as real as what did happen? What did happen, but isn't happening now, happened at another time. Analogously, one can say that what could have happened happens in another possible world. Whatever their views about the reality of such things as possible worlds, philosophers need to take this analogy seriously. Adriane Rini and Max Cresswell exhibit, in an easy step-by-step manner, the logical structure of temporal and modal discourse, and show that every temporal construction has an exact parallel that requires a language that can refer to worlds, and vice versa. They make precise, in a way which can be articulated and tested, the claim that the parallel is at work behind even ordinary talk about time and modality. The book gives metaphysicians a sturdy framework for the investigation of time and modality - one that does not presuppose any particular metaphysical view.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Truth and Indexicality: 1. Semantical indices\u003cbr\u003e 2. Philosophical entities\u003cbr\u003e 3. Situated truth\u003cbr\u003e 4. The privileged position\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Predicate Logic: Tense and Modal: 5. A formal language\u003cbr\u003e 6. The non-existent\u003cbr\u003e 7. Multiple indexing\u003cbr\u003e 8. Time and world quantifiers\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Times and Worlds, or Tense and Modality?: 9. Primitive modality and primitive tense\u003cbr\u003e 10. 'Modalism' and 'tensism'\u003cbr\u003e 11. The present and the actual\u003cbr\u003e 12. Utterances\u003cbr\u003e 13. Relativity\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. De Rerum Natura: 14. Individuals and stages\u003cbr\u003e 15. Predicate wormism\u003cbr\u003e 16. Abstract and concrete\u003cbr\u003e 17. Supervenience\u003cbr\u003e Appendix 1. The equivalence of Lmulti, Lxtw and Li\u003cbr\u003e Appendix 2. Language and metalanguage\u003cbr\u003e Appendix 3. Plantinga's metaphysics\u003cbr\u003e Appendix 4. Interval semantics\u003cbr\u003e Appendix 5. Fatalism and the world-time parallel (with H. Kocurek)\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Philosophy: logic [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Philosophy: logic\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Philosophy:%20logic%20%5BHPL%5D%22\"\u003eHPL\u003c\/a\u003e], Philosophy: metaphysics \u0026amp; ontology [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Philosophy: metaphysics \u0026amp; ontology\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Philosophy:%20metaphysics%20\u0026amp;%20ontology%20%5BHPJ%5D%22\"\u003eHPJ\u003c\/a\u003e], Philosophy [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Philosophy\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Philosophy%20%5BHP%5D%22\"\u003eHP\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46265487294744,"sku":"9781107017474","price":53.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781107017474i.jpg?v=1692023421","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-world-time-parallel-tense-and-modality-in-logic-and-metaphysics-hardback-9781107017474","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}