Presentism, truthmaking and necessary connections

Tallant, Jonathan

Abstract

Ross Cameron puts forward a novel solution to the truthmaker problem facing presentism. I claim that, by Cameron's own lights, the view is not in fact a presentist view at all, but rather requires us to endorse a form of Priority Presentism, whereby past objects are derivative and depend for their existence upon present objects. I argue that this view should be rejected.

Citation

Tallant, J. (2015). Presentism, truthmaking and necessary connections. Theoria, 81(3), https://doi.org/10.1111/theo.12062

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Nov 3, 2013
• Online Publication Date: Nov 3, 2014
• Publication Date: Sep 1, 2015
• Deposit Date: Jul 27, 2017
• Publicly Available Date: Jul 27, 2017
• Journal: Theoria
• Print ISSN: 0040-5817
• Electronic ISSN: 1755-2567
• Publisher: Berghahn Journals
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 81
• Issue: 3
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/theo.12062
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/758158
• Publisher URL: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/theo.12062/full
• Additional Information: This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Tallant, J. (2015), Presentism, Truthmaking and Necessary Connections. Theoria, 81: 211–221, which has been published in final form at doi:10.1111/theo.12062. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving.