I’ve just finished revising my paper “Presentism, Truthmakers, and God” and have sent it off to a journal. I made quite a few changes from the earlier version. For those who might be interested, here’s the abstract:<\/p>\n
Abstract:<\/b> The truthmaker objection to presentism (the view that what exists simpliciter<\/i> is coextensive with what exists now<\/i>) is that it does not have sufficient metaphysical resources to ground truths about the past. In this paper I identify five constraints that an adequate presentist response ought to meet. In the light of these constraints, I examine and reject several recent proposals by John Bigelow, Simon Keller, and Thomas Crisp. Consideration of how these proposals fail, however, points toward another proposal, that truthmakers for truths about the past are to be identified with God\u2019s memories, which seems to work. I conclude that presentists have, in the truthmaker objection, considerable incentive to endorse theism.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
And here’s a link<\/a> (.pdf)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I’ve just finished revising my paper “Presentism, Truthmakers, and God” and have sent it off to a journal. I made quite a few changes from the earlier version. For those who might be interested, here’s the abstract: Abstract: The truthmaker objection to presentism (the view that what exists simpliciter is coextensive with what exists now)\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/alanrhoda.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/alanrhoda.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/alanrhoda.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alanrhoda.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alanrhoda.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/alanrhoda.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/alanrhoda.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alanrhoda.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alanrhoda.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}