Presentism, Truthmaking, and Laws of Nature

• Autores: Pablo Rychter
• Localización: VII Conference of the Spanish Society for Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science: Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 18-20 July 2012 / Sociedad de Lógica, Metodología y Filosofía de la Ciencia en España (aut.), Concepción Martínez Vidal (dir. congr.), José L. Falguera López (dir. congr.), José Miguel Sagüillo Fernández-Vega (dir. congr.), Víctor Martín Verdejo Aparicio (dir. congr.), Martín Pereira Fariña (dir. congr.), 2012, ISBN 978-84-9887-939-1, págs. 274-279
• Idioma: inglés
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  • This talk addresses the so called “truthmaker objection” to presentism, and a reply to this objection that I call “the laws-of-nature-proposal” (LOP). This proposal has been recently defended by Ned Markosian, who is one of the major present advocates of presentism. I will argue that, although initially appealing, LOP fails to meet a constraint that is generally taken as part of the challenge behind the truthmaker objection: namely, that the entities invoked to do truthmaker work be categoric entities, in a sense to be specified. Thus, I conclude LOP is unsatisfactory as a solution to the truthmaker problem so conceived. However, I will conclude by discussing to which extent the violated constraint is a sensible one and therefore to which extent the truthmaker objection so conceived is really a damaging problem for presentism.