The Modal Future

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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.