{"title":"Prior’s early reflections on sense and sentences","authors":"Mike Grimshaw, David Jakobsen","doi":"10.54337/lpt.v5i1.7854","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54337/lpt.v5i1.7854","url":null,"abstract":"We present here an introduction and a discussion of A.N. Prior’s ‘Sense and Sentences’ in light of the context of publication in the journal National Education, written upon his return from Europe and while he was undergoing a crisis of faith. We argue that ‘Sense and Sentences’ is the article referred to by Kenny in his Obituary on Prior as an article written “on the relations between logic and grammar (with reference to Popper, Wisdom and Carnap)”. Furthermore, we argue that Prior was working his way into philosophy, by demonstrating his familiarity with the work of key persons within analytic philosophy such as Rudolf Carnap, John Wisdom and Karl Popper. We also argue that Findlay’s – and, thus, indirectly: Wittgenstein’s – influence is also visible in this period where Prior was transitioning from being a religious journalist to the future philosopher he would turn out to become. In particular, we argue that, while Findlay’s influence on the relationship between grammar and metaphysics would win the day with A.N. Prior, when he discovered tense-logic, it was not an evident feature of Prior’s work on the relationship between logic and grammar in sense and sentences. We argue that Sense and Sentences is interesting because it seems to have expressed a stage in Prior’s thinking on logic that he later came to modify, thereby distancing himself more from the anti-metaphysical tenets of analytic philosophy.","PeriodicalId":471511,"journal":{"name":"Logic and Philosophy of Time","volume":"31 5","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135412643","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"To write and think ‘in his own tongue’: Arthur Prior, Jack Bates & the New Zealand Journal of Theology","authors":"Mike Grimshaw","doi":"10.54337/lpt.v5i1.7862","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54337/lpt.v5i1.7862","url":null,"abstract":"While the influence of John Findlay on Arthur Prior is well known, there are others who, in their own way, had a significant influence on the thought of the young Arthur Prior and the development of his intellectual career. In particular, both Lex Miller and Jack Bates provided support, ideas, and an example as to how to combine theological and political and philosophical interests that Prior followed for many years. This article discusses the influence of Jack Bates, and in particular the journal Bates cofounded with Jim Steele, the New Zealand Journal of Theology (hereafter NZJT), that Prior wrote for in the mid-1930s. It is argued that Bates can be seen to provide a model of combining theological and philosophical work and interests, as well as how to engage in the type of religious journalism that Prior noted, in 1936, was now his aim (Grimshaw 2018, p.93). Prior contined, via his roles as elder in the Presbyterian Church, to interact with Bates until Prior and his family finally left New Zealand for Manchester at the end of 1958.","PeriodicalId":471511,"journal":{"name":"Logic and Philosophy of Time","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135414536","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Prior’s System Q and its Extensions","authors":"B. Jack Copeland, Aneta Markoska-Cubrinovska","doi":"10.54337/lpt.v5i1.7893","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54337/lpt.v5i1.7893","url":null,"abstract":"Recently, and as happens from time to time in New Zealand, a typescript of Prior’s turned up. This one was in the personal collection of Oliver Sutherland. Prior typed it in November 1957 and used copies in his senior logic group, an informal research group at Canterbury University. A terse and relentlessly compressed couple of pages, it concerns Prior’s system Q, which even towards the end of his life he was still describing as ‘the true modal logic’. We analyse Prior’s typescript and the issues underlying it, as well as providing an exposition of Q, and an examination of Łukasiewicz’s objections to Q. The article also includes an interview with Prior’s student Robert Bull concerning Q.","PeriodicalId":471511,"journal":{"name":"Logic and Philosophy of Time","volume":"46 10","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135414546","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Fatima Sabir, Patrick Blackburn, Julie Lundbak Kofod
{"title":"The Past, Present and Future of the Prior Internet Resources","authors":"Fatima Sabir, Patrick Blackburn, Julie Lundbak Kofod","doi":"10.54337/lpt.v5i1.7864","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54337/lpt.v5i1.7864","url":null,"abstract":"In 2016, researchers from six different Danish universities gathered together to begin a research project called The Primacy of Tense - A. N. Prior Now and Then. The goals of the project were as diverse as its participants, ranging from themes in philosophy and logic to explorations in information science and history. This diversity was held together by a key idea: that it is important to study the links between Prior’s canonical published work and the extensive collection of unpublished material he left behind after his death. Thus a key practical goal of the project was to further explore and transcribe Prior’s Nachlass and make more of it available on the Prior Internet Resources (PIR). In this article we describe how the PIR came about, discuss how it has changed, and suggest several directions for its further development, so it can continue fostering research into Arthur Prior’s work in the future.","PeriodicalId":471511,"journal":{"name":"Logic and Philosophy of Time","volume":"2004 71","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135366603","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The True Futures: A Couple of Case Studies","authors":"Torben Braüner","doi":"10.54337/lpt.v5i1.7858","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54337/lpt.v5i1.7858","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we compare Arthur Prior’s well-known Ockhamistic semantics to an alternative semantics for future contingents. We show that the alternative semantics is able to distinguish between two different statements about counterfactual future possibilities, which are equivalent according to Prior’s Ockhamistic semantics.","PeriodicalId":471511,"journal":{"name":"Logic and Philosophy of Time","volume":"16 6","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135413352","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A.N. Prior on John Wyndham´'s case","authors":"Manuel González Riquelme, Peter Øhrstrøm","doi":"10.54337/lpt.v5i1.8027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54337/lpt.v5i1.8027","url":null,"abstract":"In his paper “Opposite Number” (1957) A.N. Prior anticipates the later philosophical debate on the ideas of bifurcation in time, existence and identity. The paper was inspired by a science fiction story by John Wyndham, and it was published in 1957, i.e., the year before Kripke´s famous letter of September 3, 1958, in which the idea of branching time was suggested. Which means that important aspects of this idea and complex problems related to it, were discussed by Prior earlier than has traditionally been assumed.","PeriodicalId":471511,"journal":{"name":"Logic and Philosophy of Time","volume":"77 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135366593","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On A.N. Prior’s Logical System Q","authors":"Farshad Badie","doi":"10.54337/lpt.v5i1.7853","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54337/lpt.v5i1.7853","url":null,"abstract":"Through his philosophical and logical analysis in Time and Modality in 1957, Arthur Norman Prior proposed the logical system Q. In this paper, I logically characterise Q and, subsequently, study Q’s deficiencies. I also review other works which have been carried out based on Q in recent decades.","PeriodicalId":471511,"journal":{"name":"Logic and Philosophy of Time","volume":"32 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135412955","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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