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The Modal Future - A Theory of Future-Directed Thought and Talk (Paperback)
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The Modal Future - A Theory of Future-Directed Thought and Talk (Paperback)
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It is commonly assumed that we conceive of the past and the future
as symmetrical. In this book, Fabrizio Cariani develops a new
theory of future-directed discourse and thought that shows that our
linguistic and philosophical conceptions of the past and future
are, in fact, fundamentally different. Future thought and talk,
Cariani suggests, are best understood in terms of a systematic
analogy with counterfactual thought and talk, and are not just
mirror images of the past. Cariani makes this case by developing
detailed formal semantic theories as well as by advancing less
technical views about the nature of future-directed judgment and
prediction. His book addresses in a thought-provoking way several
important debates in contemporary philosophy, and his synthesis of
parallel threads of research will benefit scholars in the
philosophy of language, metaphysics, epistemology, linguistics and
cognitive science.
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