Presentism: Foreigner-Friendly or Xenophobic?. Issue 3 (2nd July 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Frances, Bryan
• Is Part Of: Australasian journal of philosophy. Volume 94:Issue 3(2016)
• Page Start: 479
• Page End: 488
• Publication Date: 2016-07-02
• Subjects: presentism -- eternalism -- modal realism -- disconnected times -- ontology -- philosophy of time; Philosophy -- Periodicals; Psychology -- Periodicals; 105
• DOI: 10.1080/00048402.2015.1094098
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0004-8402

Abstract

Abstract : I argue that, for all we know, there are perfectly ordinary actual entities that are temporal in the usual sense and yet never present, past, or future. This epistemic fact requires us to modify the theses of presentism and eternalism. More importantly, it generates three new and quite serious objections to presentism, which I formulate and partially evaluate in this paper.