Speaker: Zhiheng Tang, researcher, Qingdao Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences, Shandong University

Date: May 24, 2024

Time: 19:00-21:00

Location: A1618, Zhixin Building, Shandong University

Sponsor: Shandong University

Abstract:

Traditionally, presentism is thought to be appealing, to a large extent because it is thought to be more capable - than its rivals, most notably eternalism - of making sense of temporal passage/change; and to a large extent because it is thought to be wed well with endurantism, which for many is a natural position on persistence. These have been challenged lately: Leininger (2015) argues that presentism cannot make sense of temporal passage/change,and Tallant (2018) and Leininger (2022) argue that presentism is incompatible with endurantism, or perhaps even with any account of persistence. Too bad to be true, however. In this talk I will defend presentism against these charges.

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