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  1. The moving spotlight(s).Giuseppe Spolaore & Giuliano Torrengo - 2021 - Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 64 (7):754-771.
    The moving spotlight account (MS) is a view that combines an eternalist ontology and an A-theoretic metaphysics. The intuition underlying MS is that the present time is somehow privileged and experientially vivid, as if it were illuminated by a moving spotlight. According to MS-theorists, a key reason to prefer MS to B-theoretic eternalism is that our experience of time supports it. We argue that this is false. To this end, we formulate a new family of positions in the philosophy of (...)
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  2. Outline of a Logic of Knowledge of Acquaintance.Samuele Iaquinto & Giuseppe Spolaore - 2019 - Analysis 79:52-61.
    The verb ‘to know’ can be used both in ascriptions of propositional knowledge and ascriptions of knowledge of acquaintance. In the formal epistemology literature, the former use of ‘know’ has attracted considerable attention, while the latter is typically regarded as derivative. This attitude may be unsatisfactory for those philosophers who, like Russell, are not willing to think of knowledge of acquaintance as a subsidiary or dependent kind of knowledge. In this paper we outline a logic of knowledge of acquaintance in (...)
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  3. The future ain’t what it used to be: Strengthening the case for mutable futurism.Giacomo Andreoletti & Giuseppe Spolaore - 2021 - Synthese 199 (3-4):10569-10585.
    This paper explores mutable futurism, the view according to which the future can literally change—that is, it can happen that a future time t changes from containing an event E to lacking it. Mutable futurism has received little attention so far, and the details and implications of the view are underexplored in the literature. For instance, it currently lacks a precise metaphysical model and a formal semantics. Although we do not endorse mutable futurism, our goal here is to strengthen the (...)
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  4. Future Actuality and Truth Ascriptions.Andrea Iacona & Giuseppe Spolaore - 2025 - Philosophies 10 (41):1-14.
    One question that arises in connection with Ockhamism, and that perhaps has not yet received the attention it deserves, is how a coherent formal account of truth ascriptions can be provided by using a suitable truth predicate in the object language. We address this question and show its implications for some semantic issues that have been discussed in the literature on future contingents. Arguably, understanding how truth ascriptions work at the formal level helps to gain a deeper insight into Ockhamism (...)
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    Branching Time.Giuseppe Spolaore & Alberto Zanardo - 2025 - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
    This is the final draft of the SEP entry "Branching time". See external links for the published version.
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  6. Now there will be trouble.Giuseppe Spolaore & Fabio Del Prete - 2018 - In Patrick Blackburn, Per Hasle & Peter Ohrstrom, Logic and Philosophy of Time - Themes from Prior. Aalborg Universitetsforlag.
    The paper considers sentences in which “now” occurs in initial position and shows that the meaning they convey differs from the meaning of sentences that are otherwise identical except for “now” occurring in final position. We argue that the occurrence of “now” in initial position triggers a particular kind of modal reading for the sentence to which the adverb is prefixed. A general notion of modal forcing is proposed to provide a uniform account of this kind of reading. Armed with (...)
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    Informational mereology.Giuseppe Spolaore - manuscript
    Intuitively, any object can be made to correspond to an informational content, that is, roughly, the totality of information about its structure and composition. The first aim of this paper is to make this notion of informational content precise, based on insights from Bar-Hillel, Carnap, Lewis, and Humberstone. The second aim is to make a start in the formal study of the connections between the informational contents of wholes and the informational contents of their parts, which I call “informational mereology.” (...)
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  8. Taste Fragmentalism.Giuseppe Spolaore, Samuele Iaquinto & Giuliano Torrengo - 2025 - Erkenntnis 90 (4):1343-1361.
    This paper explores taste fragmentalism, a novel approach to matters of taste and faultless disagreement. The view is inspired by Kit Fine’s fragmentalism about time, according to which the temporal dimension can be constituted—in an absolute manner—by states that are pairwise incompatible, provided that they do not obtain together. In the present paper, we will apply this metaphysical framework to taste states. In our proposal, two incompatible taste states (such as the state of rhubarb’s being tasty and the state of (...)
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  9. A Philosophically Neutral Semantics for Perception Sentences.Samuele Iaquinto & Giuseppe Spolaore - 2022 - Theoria 88:532-544.
    Jaakko Hintikka proposed treating objectual perception sentences, such as “Alice sees Bob,” as de re propositional perception sentences. Esa Saarinen extended Hintikka’s idea to eventive perception sentences, such as “Alice sees Bob smile.” These approaches, elegant as they may be, are not philosophically neutral, for they presuppose, controversially, that the content of all perceptual experiences is propositional in nature. The aim of this paper is to propose a formal treatment of objectual and eventive perception sentences that builds on Hintikka’s modal (...)
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    Ontological parsimony and the open past.Giuseppe Spolaore - manuscript
    A history is a complete possible temporal evolution of the universe. There are two main conceptions of histories: Lewis’s divergence, in which distinct histories are all disjoint, and the standard branching time (BT) conception, in which histories overlap and branch towards the future (‘open future’). As Greg Restall noted, if a realist conception of histories is adopted, considerations of ontological parsimony favour the standard BT conception over Lewis’s divergence. In this note, I observe that perfectly analogous considerations can be raised (...)
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  11. The importance of being Ernesto: Reference, truth and logical form.Andrea Bianchi, Vittorio Morato & Giuseppe Spolaore (eds.) - 2016 - Padova: Padova University Press.
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