The Open Future: Why Future Contingents Are All False

Patrick Todd

The Open Future: Why Future Contingents Are All False

Oxford: Oxford University Press (2021)

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Abstract

This book launches a sustained defense of a radical interpretation of the doctrine of the open future. Patrick Todd argues that all claims about undetermined aspects of the future are simply false.

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the open future presentism bivalence future contingents will excluded middle conditional excluded middle

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Classical Logic in Logic and Philosophy of Logic

Fatalism in Philosophy of Action

Indeterminacy in Philosophy of Language

Modal Expressions in Philosophy of Language

Presentism in Metaphysics

Scope in Philosophy of Language

Subjunctive Conditionals, Misc in Philosophy of Language

Temporal Logic in Logic and Philosophy of Logic

The Open Future in Metaphysics

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9780192897916 0192897918

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