No longer true (ECAP)

Luca Barlassina (1) , Fabio Del Prete (2)

1 University of Sheffield [Sheffield]
2 CLLE - Cognition, langues, langage, ergonomie

A common picture of the metaphysics of time has it that the past cannot change. For example, if it is now the case that Obama was born in 1961, it will never be the case that he was not born in 1961. A semantic consequence of this view is the following: (TP) Context-insensitive, temporally specific sentences about the past are truth-value-persistent. In this talk, Luca Barlassina and Fabio Del Prete presented a puzzle that challenges the common picture and its semantic consequence.

Mots clés: Philosophy of time; Past; Persistence; Changing Past

Domaines: Philosophie; Linguistique

Luca Barlassina, Fabio Del Prete. No longer true (ECAP). ECAP 8 : 8th European Congress of Analytic Philosophy, European Society for Analytic Philosophy, Aug 2014, Bucharest, Romania. ⟨hal-03953693⟩