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Jonathan Tallant

Lecturer, Faculty of Arts

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Research Summary

I'm currently working on three main projects.

First, I'm trying to defend a version of Presentism -- the view that only the present exists. The main problems typically associated with the view concern how we can generate truths about the past; how to define Presentism adequately; how presentism deals with contemporary physical theories about the nature of time.

Second, I'm trying to defend the view (quite generally) that not all truth needs grounding in what exists.

Third, I defend nominalism about mathematics.

Selected Publications

Future Research

In the future I'm looking to do more work on presentism: in particular, I'm looking to develop a view that I'm calling "Existence Presentism".

I'm also continuing to try and restrict the truth-maker principle in a sensible fashion. The basic thought, here, is that not all truths need truth-makers.

In the philosophy of mathematics I'm looking to defend nominalism from particular objections.

  • TALLANT, J, 2014. Intuitions in Physics Synthese. (In Press.)
  • TALLANT, J, 2013. Optimus Prime Synthese. (In Press.)
  • TALLANT, J, 2013. Mathematics, Pretense, and Cognitive Neuroscience British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. (In Press.)
  • TALLANT, J and INGRAM, D, 2012. Presentism and Distributional Properties. In: BENNETT, K. and ZIMMERMAN, D, eds., Oxford Studies in Metaphysics 7. OUP. (In Press.)
  • TALLANT, J and INGRAM, D, 2012. Time for Distribution? Analysis. 72, 264-70
  • TALLANT, J, 2012. (Existence) Presentism and the A-theory Analysis. (In Press.)
  • TALLANT, J., 2011. There’s No Future in No-Futurism ERKENNTNIS -DORDRECHT-. VOL 74(NUMBER 1), 37-52
  • TALLANT, J, 2011. Metaphysics: An Introduction Continuum.
  • TALLANT, J., 2010. Still cheating, still prospering ANALYSIS -OXFORD-. VOL 70(NUMBER 3), 502-506
  • TALLANT, J., 2010. There’s no existent like ‘no existence’ like no existent I know Philosophical Studies. 148, 387-400
  • TALLANT, J., 2010. A Sketch of a Presentist Theory of Passage ERKENNTNIS -DORDRECHT-. VOL 73(NUMBER 1), 133-140
  • TALLANT, J., 2010. Not a Total Failure PHILOSOPHIA -RAMAT GAN ISRAEL-. VOL 38(NUMBER 4), 795-810
  • TALLANT, J, 2010. Memory Anticipation and the (un)reality of past and future. In: PARKER, J., HARRIS, P. and STEINECK, C, eds., Time: Limits and Constraints: The Study of Time XIII. Leiden: Brill. 89-108
  • TALLANT, J, 2010. Time for Presence? Philosophia. 38, 271-80
  • TALLANT, J., 2009. Time and Realism: Metaphysical and Antimetaphysical Perspectives By YUVAL DOLEV ANALYSIS -OXFORD-. VOL 69(NUMBER 2), 372-374
  • TALLANT, J, 2009. Ontological cheats might just prosper Analysis. 69, 422-430
  • TALLANT, J, 2009. Truth-makers and Presentism Erkenntnis. 71(3), 407-416
  • TALLANT, J., 2007. What is it to 'B' a relation? <i>in</i> <b>Synthese</b> Springer Netherlands. Available at: <http://www.springerlink.com/content/a13h17884j344204/>
  • TALLANT, J., 2007. There have been, are (now), and will be lots of times like the present in the hybrid view of time: ANALYSIS -OXFORD-. VOL 67(NUMBER 293), 83-86
  • TALLANT, J., 2007. What is B-time? ANALYSIS -OXFORD-. VOL 67(NUMBER 294), 147-156
  • TALLANT, J, Fine's Heterodox Presentism. In: CIUNI, R, MILLER, K and TORRENGO, G, eds., New Papers on the Present: Focus on Presentism Philosophia Verlag. (In Press.)

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