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Future Contingents

2011
Future contingents are contingent statements about the future — such as future events, actions, states etc. To qualify as contingent the predicted event, state, action or whatever is at stake must neither be impossible nor inevitable. Statements such as “My mother shall go to London” or “There will be a sea-battle tomorrow” could serve as standard ...
Hasle, Per, Øhrstrøm, Peter
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Future is always contingent

Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2020
To challenge the questions about the importance of teaching on future we take the term of ‘contingent foundations’ of Judith Butler (1995) as point of departure.
Kehde, Sarah, Tschapka, Johannes
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Prosthetic contingencies for future tooth loss

The Journal of Prosthetic Dentistry, 1985
Possible contingencies for future natural tooth loss that can and should be built into prostheses have been reviewed. These contingencies provide a measure of security to the patient and the dentist when attempting to maintain teeth that appear to have a guarded prognosis.
W B, Kaldahl, C M, Becker
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Future contingents, open futurism and ontic indeterminacy

2023
This paper critically discusses Patrick Todd’s book, The Open Future: Why Future Contingents Are All False (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021).
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Citizenship, Contingency, and Futurity

2023
Eschewing national frames in favor of regional patterns, the chapter presents observations concerning “demotic” photographic practices in Nepal, Bangladesh, and India. It attempts to balance differences in local practices with medium specificity. The technical visual conditions of citizenship (such as in the obligatory wearing of a “Dhaka topi” in ...
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Bivalence, Future Contingents and the Open Future

2018
In this chapter we critically discuss the objection that since truths require grounds, the Growing Block Theory must take bivalence to fail for future contingents, while it proves at odds with the best account of such a failure. We challenge the version of the grounding requirement driving this objection, devise a better formulation, and show that the ...
Fabrice Correia, Sven Rosenkranz
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Varieties of future‐contingency

Analytic Philosophy
AbstractI here examine some of the main contentions of Todd's “The Open Future”. I argue first that a future contingent need not contain locutions such as “will” or cognates and that once this is recognized a trilemma emerges for Todd, putting pressure on him to relinquish one of the book's main aims. Then after noting (Section II) Todd's response to a
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Chaucer’s Provisions for Future Contingencies

Florilegium, 2004
In Chaucer’s narratives, people think about the future, and typically they find it uncertain. Quelle surprise! you exclaim ironically, since narrative requires suspense in the steps between beginning and ending, or otherwise it would become the exposition of a static, allegorical, universal grid. The uncertain steps of narrative might only be those of
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Future Contingents, Indeterminacy and Context

Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 2015
AbstractInFacing the Future, Belnapet al. reject bivalence and propose double time reference semantics to give a pragmatic response to the followingassertion problem: how can we make sense of assertions about future events made at a time when the outcomes of those events are not yet determined?
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How is Our Future Contingent?

Theory, Culture & Society, 2001
In a first retrospective of Niklas Luhmann's work, it is surprising to see that concepts regarding time and temporality received comparatively little attention. This article starts with the hypothesis that, over the years, Luhmann tended to subsume and deal with topics regarding time under the notion of `contingency'.
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