Overview
- Discusses fundamental topics in contemporary Ockhamism
- Shows how Ockhamism can impact other areas of research
- Investigates how William of Ockham construed time and future contingency
Part of the book series: Synthese Library (SYLI, volume 452)
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This book discusses fundamental topics on contemporary Ockhamism. The collected essays show how contemporary Ockhamism can impact areas of research such as semantics, metaphysics and also the philosophy of science. In addition, the volume hosts one historian of Medieval philosophy who investigates the way in which William of Ockham “in flesh and bone” construed time and, more generally, future contingency.
The essays explore the different meanings of this theory. They cover three main topics, in particular. The first examines the thesis that sentences and propositions about the future have a definite truth value, without any ensuing commitment to determinism or fatalism. The second topic looks at the problem whether the branching-time model needs to countenance a privileged branch (the so-called Thin Red Line). Finally, the third topic considers the idea that there are so-called soft facts. These would be the subject matter of sentences and propositions verballyabout the present or the past, but metaphysically about a later time, and which might change in the future.
Overall, the book provides an updated and rigorous idea of the debate about Ockhamism. It gives readers a deeper understanding into this philosophical approach influenced by William of Ockham, characterized by the rejection of the Aristotelian idea that, in order to preserve the contingency of the future, future contingents must be deemed neither true nor false.
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Dr. Alessio Santelli. Completed his PhD at Ca' Foscari University of Venice. He carried out research activities at LOGOS, University of Barcelona (UB), and at the University of L’Aquila. His main interests are in semantics, temporal logic and in philosophy of time, with a particular focus on the problem of Future Contingents.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Ockhamism and Philosophy of Time
Book Subtitle: Semantic and Metaphysical Issues Concerning Future Contingents
Editors: Alessio Santelli
Series Title: Synthese Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-90359-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-90358-9Published: 31 March 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-90361-9Published: 01 April 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-90359-6Published: 30 March 2022
Series ISSN: 0166-6991
Series E-ISSN: 2542-8292
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 171
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Philosophy of Science, Semantics, Medieval Philosophy
Keywords
- Future Contingents Ockham
- Ockhamism Philosophy Time
- Thin Red Line Ockham
- Assertion Problem Ockham
- Fatalism Determinism Ockham
- Openness future Ockjham
- Branching time semantics Ockham
- William of Ockham contemporary philospohy
- Ockham razor contemporary philosophy
- Ockham Philosophy of Science
- Ockham linguistics
- Ockhamism truth value
- Ockamism soft facts
- Ockamism semantics
- Ockamism philosophy of science