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If presentism is false, then I don’t exist. On common-sense presentism
For many presentist philosophers, e.g. Zimmerman (Contemp Debates Metaphys 10:211–225, 2008), a central motivation in favour of presentism is that it...
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Presentism and representation: saying it without words
The Triviality Argument against presentism maintains that we should reject presentism because there is no way to define the view that is not either...
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Presentism and times as propositions
Some Presentists —according to whom everything is present —identify instants of time with propositions of a certain kind. However, the view that times...
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The rotten core of presentism
Recently, some have attempted to reformulate debates in first-order metaphysics, particularly in the metaphysics of time and modality, for reasons...
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On the Possibility of Presentism with Occurrents
This paper defends the possibility of admitting occurrents in a presentist ontology. Two ways of doing so are proposed, the first one involves...
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Presentism, Ockhamism, and Truth-Grounding
Permanentists have no trouble explaining how truths about the past or future can be grounded in reality. If n time-units ago, there was something...
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Brute Past Presentism, Dynamic Presentism, and the Objection from Being-Supervenience
Presentism faces the following well-known dilemma: either the truth-value of past-tense claims depends on the non-existing past and cannot be said to...
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Getting tense about the atonement
This paper argues for the coherence of penal substitutionary theories of atonement (PSA) with presentism. After summarizing both the PSA and...
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Presentism, Continuous Time-Travel and the Phenomenology of Passage
We argue that a certain variety of presentist time travel ends up significantly undermining the motivational foundations which lead some, but not...
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Hard presentism
Presentists believe that only present things exist. Their theories, at first glance, seem to offer many admirable features: a simple ontology, and a...
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Common-sense temporal ontology: an experimental study
Temporal ontology is the philosophical debate on the existence of the past and the future. It features a three-way confrontation between supporters...
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Duration Enough for Presentism
This paper considers a problem for dynamic presentism that has received little attention: its apparent inability to accommodate the duration of...
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Canguilhem’s Historiography of the Life Sciences
In this chapter, I revisit CanguilhemCanguilhem, Georges’s interpretation of BachelardBachelard, Gaston’s “normative turn” in epistemology and his...
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Existence Is Not Relativistically Invariant—Part 1: Meta-ontology
Metaphysicians who are aware of modern physics usually follow Putnam (1967) in arguing that Special Theory of Relativity is incompatible with the...
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Agenda
Agenda are future oriented tools defining what to do and how to do it. In the Anthropocene, the future of agendas is ambiguous: while our room for...
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A Dynamic B Theory of Time
An adequate account of free will requires a robust powers ontology, but does it also require a “dynamic” A Theory of time? I argue that it is...
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A Too Thin True Future: The Problem of Grounding Within Presentist TRL Semantics
In this paper, we discuss the coherence and the stability of three rather plausible philosophical intuitions: the idea that all that exists is...
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Finding satisfaction in presentism
This paper argues for a pragmatic motivation for believing Presentism —the thesis that everything is present. After outlining a pragmatic source of...
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A Model for the Asymmetry
As has been argued, there are good reasons to think that, assuming physical indeterminism, the asymmetry between the ‘open future’ and the ‘fixed...
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Presentism and Actualism
Presentism, some say, is either the analytic triviality that the only things that exist now are ones that exist now or the obviously false claim that...