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Thisness Presentism - An Essay on Time, Truth, and Ontology (Hardcover)
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Thisness Presentism - An Essay on Time, Truth, and Ontology (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Metaphysics
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Thisness Presentism outlines and defends a novel version of
presentism, the view that only present entities exist and what is
present really changes, a view of time that captures a real and
objective difference between what is past, present, and future, and
which offers a model of reality that is dynamic and mutable, rather
than static and immutable. The book advances a new defence of
presentism by developing a novel ontology of thisness, combining
insights about the nature of essence, the metaphysics of
propositions, and the relationship between true propositions and
the elements of reality that make them true, alongside insights
about time itself. It shows how, by accepting an ontology of
thisness, presentists can respond to a number of pressing
challenges to presentism, including claims that presentism cannot
account for true propositions about the past, and that it is
inconsistent with the reality of temporal passage and the openness
of the future. This is one of the only book-length defences of
presentism. It will be of interest to students and scholars working
on the debate about presentism in the philosophy of time, as well
as those interested in the metaphysics of propositions and
truth-making, more generally.
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