Fatalism and the Logic of Time by Zagzebski, Linda Trinkaus
Fatalism and the Logic of Time by Zagzebski, Linda Trinkaus

Fatalism and the Logic of Time

Fatalism -- the thesis that something in the past necessitates the entire future -- is often argued...
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Author: Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski
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Language: English
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Fatalism and the Logic of Time by Zagzebski, Linda Trinkaus

Fatalism and the Logic of Time

$112.12
Fatalism and the Logic of Time by Zagzebski, Linda Trinkaus

Fatalism and the Logic of Time

$112.12
Author: Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Fatalism -- the thesis that something in the past necessitates the entire future -- is often argued for in three ways. One argument is that the truth of propositions about future events makes those events necessary. Another is that infallible divine foreknowledge necessitates all future human acts. The third is that the past history of the world in conjunction with universal causal laws necessitates the entire future.

Each of these arguments depends on a premise of the necessity of the past. In Fatalism and the Logic of Time, Linda Zagzebski examines two interpretations of this necessity. One interpretation is the modal necessity of the past, and the other interpretation is the cause of closure of the past. She argues that the combination of the necessity of the past with the transfer of necessity principle is inconsistent with the truth of any proposition about the past that entails a proposition about the future. As such, the problem is much broader than fatalism. It is a problem in the logic of time. All arrows of time, as well as the arrows of physics, arise from the human experience of before and after -- but that experience does not itself require an arrow.

Author: Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 11/08/2024
Pages: 144
Binding Type: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780197786680
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