Transient Truths: An Essay in the Metaphysics of Propositions

Author:   Berit Brogaard (Associate Professor of Philosophy and Psychology, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Psychology, University of Missouri St Louis)
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Pages:   208
Publication Date:   31 May 2012
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Author:   Berit Brogaard (Associate Professor of Philosophy and Psychology, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Psychology, University of Missouri St Louis)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 23.90cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 16.00cm
Weight:   0.408kg
ISBN:  

9780199796908


ISBN 10:   0199796904
Pages:   208
Publication Date:   31 May 2012
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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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 Bibliography

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<br> Transient Truths is a welcome addition to the philosophical literature that is bound to reignite the discussion about the temporal features of propositions. --Ulrich Meyer, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews<p><br>


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Dr. Berit Brogaard, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Psychology at University of Missouri, St. Louis, has written since 1999 for publications such as Journal of Philosophy, Nous, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research and Consciousness and Cognition. In her academic research she specializes in visual perception and semantics. From 2007 to 2009 she was a research fellow at the Centre for Consciousness at the Australian National University. She has a medical degree in neuroscience from the Danish National Hospital and the University of Copenhagen and a Ph.D. in philosophy from State University of New York.

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