How To Be A Presentist

Abstract. Presentism, according to which reality is limited to the present, is a natural view, but it is incom- patible with the claims that reality invariably

Zimmerman, eds The Oxford Handbook of Metaphysics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003 pp. 211-245. Presentism, roughly, is the thesis that only the

Firstly, by showing that divine timelessness is compatible with presentism, such that defenders of timelessness can adopt the presentist solution. And then by

Presentism is the doctrine that only the present is real. Since ordinary talk and thought are full of quantification over non-present objects, presentists

2 Apr 2018 Augustine, Anselm, Aquinas, and hosts of lesser lights shared a pair of metaphysical views. They were presentists, holding that always, the

Presentism is also associated with triumphalism and Whig history, both generally taken to be problematic, if not anathema, by professional historians. To call a

Recent attempts to resolve the truthmaker objection against presentism proceed by restricting truthmaker maximalism (the view that all truths have truthmakers

3 This gives presentism an intuitive advantage over other theories of time. Or so presentists say. This might puzzle some. After all, change is the having of

the philosophy of time. 5. Actualism. I have argued that presentists should abandon the traditional definition of their theory in favour

14 Jun 2007 “Presentism” is the usual name given to a version of the A-theory that accepts, at face value, this account of the differences among past

24 Apr 2014 Abstract Presentists face a challenge from truthmaker theory: if you hold that the only existing objects are presently existing objects and

in the case of the presentism/eternalism debate, one can be both a perdurantist and an endurantist, depending on which linguistic framework is preferred. More

20 Nov 2022 The Triviality Argument against presentism maintains that we should reject presentism because there is no way to define the view that is not

Upstanding presentists aim to meet the challenge, positing presently existing truth-makers for truths about the past; nefarious presentists aim to shirk their

Together these claims necessitate presently existing truthmakers for truths about the past (presentist truthmakers Cameron (2010) argues that temporal

26 Sept 2022 According to orthodoxy, our best physical theories strongly support Eternalism over Presentism. Our goal is to argue against this consensus, by

Only. Presentism and the tenseless theory survive. The rest must be rejected. I: The Present Problem. There is a clear partition between tensed and tenseless

Unlike presentism them, the growing universe model holds that all past temporal loca- tions are ontologically real, and thus that the past not only is, but must

* A version of this paper, with the title Presentism, Presentness, and Temporal Succession, has been presented at the conference The Time-continuum in Imperia

Special relativity, the presentist must conclude, is radically incomplete. But the alternative view is that progress in physics has counted against presentism