Theo Todman's Web Page - Paper Abstracts

Contents

Preface
1. Time and Reality – 1
2. Tenses – 14
   … i Conjugation – 14
   … ii Simple Tenses – 17
   … iii Reichenbach's Reference Point – 18
   … iv Future Forms – 25
3. Foreknowledge and Freedom – 30
   … i The Problem – 30
   … ii Knowledge and Necessity – 34
   … iii Necessitas Consequentis – 36
   … iv Necessitas Consequentiae – 40
   … v Defeasibility – 44
   … vi Foreknowledge and Fallibility – 48
   … vii Foreknowledge and Foretruth – 53
4. Truth and Bearers of Truth – 55
   … i The Many Faces of Truth – 55
   … ii Bearers of Truth – 62
   … iii Conjectures and Predictions – 65
   … iv Bivalence – 72
5. Modal Logic¹ – 79
   … i Syntactic Approach – 79
   … ii Semantic Approach – 90
   … iii Kripke Semantics – 92
   … iv Prior's Tense Logic – 93
   … v Critique of Prior's Tense Logic – 98
6. The Logic of Temporal Standpoints – 104
   … i Syntax – 104
   … ii Semantics – 115
7. Contingency Planning for Naval Logicians – 119
   … i Syntactic Approach – 119
   … ii Timeless Truth – 125
   … iii Guestimates – 128
   … iv Argument – 132
8. Tree Semantics – 135
   … i Tree Shapes – 135
   … ii Formalities – 139
   … iii Tree Satisfaction and Temporal Truth – 145
   … iv The Logic of Temporal Standpoints – 149
   … v Temporal Modalities² – 152
   … vi Moods and Tenses – 154
   … vii Critique – 158
9. The Actual Future – 161
   … i Actuality – 161
   … ii White Now – 162
   … iii Branches – 166
   … iv Sub-trees – 170
   … v The Sea Battle – 173
   … vi Modal³ Vacuity of the Actual – 175
   … vii Temporal Truth – 176
   … viii Defeasible Truth – 177
   … ix Conclusion – 180
10. A Modal⁴ Derivation of Time – 182
    … i Time and Modality⁵ – 182
    … ii Transitivity of the Future – 184
    … iii Linearity of the Past – 184
    … iv Non-linearity of the Future – 189
    … v Homogeneity and Uniqueness – 190
    … vi The Maturation of Possibility – 193
    … vii The Topology of Time – 201
    … viiii Possible Worlds versus Actual Time – 206
11. The Vulnerability of God – 209
    … i Theology – 209
    … ii Timelessness – 211
    … iii Changelessness – 214
    … iv Eternity – 216
    … v Foreknowledge and Forebelief – 221
    … vi Perfection – 225
    … vii Providence – 227
    … viii Vulnerability and Value – 231
    Index – 234.