Branching Space-Time, the Open Future, and Modal Realism

I argue here that a combination of relatively benign intuitions, one about the future being open, the other about the existence of events causally independent from one another, may naturally lead one to adopting a modally realist interpretation of Nuel Belnap’s Branching Space-Time theory.

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Studia Logica
Published
2025-12-06
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https://doi.org/10.1007/s11225-025-10223-8
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Philosophy and Theoretical Science
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Branching Space-Time, the Open Future, and Modal Realism

Leszek Wroński
Studia Logica
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Branching Space-Time, the Open Future, and Modal Realism

Leszek Wroński
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I argue here that a combination of relatively benign intuitions, one about the future being open, the other about the existence of events causally independent from one another, may naturally lead one to adopting a modally realist interpretation of Nuel Belnap’s Branching Space-Time theory.

Studia Logica
Jagiellonian University (PL)
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