A number of people have objected to presentism on the basis that on it there is not a grounding for truths about the past. In this paper, I set out the objection to presentism from truthmaking, and I survey and evaluate several attempts to respond to the problem.

The Author

Matthew Davidson is Associate Professor of Philosophy at California State University, San Bernardino (USA). His main research areas are Metaphysics, Epistemology, Philosophy of Language, and Philosophy of Religion. He has edited Essays in the Metaphysics of Modality by Alvin Plantinga (Oxford University Press, 2003), Knowledge and Reality: Essays in Honor of Alvin Plantinga (Springer, 2006), and On Sense and Direct Reference (McGraw-Hill, 2007).

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