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Presentism and modal realism

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    Abstract

    David Lewis sells modal realism as a package that includes an eternalist view of time. There is, of course, nothing that ties together the thesis that modality should be analyzed in terms of "concrete" possibilia with the view that non-present things exist. In this paper I develop a theory I call modal realist presentism that is a combination of modal realism and presentism, and argue that is has compelling answers to some of the main objections to presentism, including the arguments from (i) singular propositions, (ii) cross-temporal relations, and (iii) truthmaking. Toward the end, I compare modal realist presentism favorably to some similar theories, including Bigelow's modal theory of time, Williamson's theory of the ex-concrete, and Dainton's theory of many-worlds presentism.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)259-282
    Number of pages24
    JournalAnalytic Philosophy
    Volume60
    Issue number3
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2019

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