David Sanson
Work in Progress
“The Once Present and the Now Past”
- An argument that tensers must make reference to past facts which, by their own lights, are no longer real.
Papers
“The Way Things Were” (with Ben Caplan), Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (81.1) 2010: 24–39.
- An argument against the explanatory relevance of presently existing truthmakers for propositions about the past.
“The Early Arabic Liar” (with Ahmed Alwishah), Vivarium (47:1) 2009: 97–127.
- An analysis of the earliest discussions of the Liar Paradox in the Medieval Arabic tradition, including the earliest known text in any tradition to blame the paradox on self-reference. English translations of the main texts are included.
Dissertation
Being and Time: The Metaphysics of Past and Future in a Dynamic World, UCLA, 2005
- A dissertation that tries to make sense of the view that the fundamental metaphysical facts—the facts about what there is, and what properties things instantiate—are tensed or dynamic facts.