presentists

The standard analysis would have it that I refer to a past time or past time interval here, but such an analysis does not go down well with presentists like Prior and others who think there is something epistemologically troubling about referring to past times and their ilk.

Descriptions Ludlow, Peter 2007

Instead we hear meaningless anecdotes e.g. 2004 was the warmest year in X years from “presentists” caught up in the moment.

IPCC and the Al Gore Hockey Stick « Climate Audit 2007

Clearly descriptive anaphora represents a powerful extension of Russell's theory of descriptions and a useful tool for presentists and modal antirealists.

Descriptions Ludlow, Peter 2007

Most card-carrying A-theorists are presentists; but not all.

On Time Again 2006

Apart from comparativists, we have presentists who draw a distinction between presently existing people and non-existing people

The Repugnant Conclusion Ryberg, Jesper 2006

In his customary take-no-prisoners style, William J. Bennetta thinks it sufficient to write off presentists as deceivers or bamboozlers and let it go at that.

Presentism and the Archives 2002

It's natural to suppose that presentists should be endurantists, claiming that things are wholly present whenever they exist.

Temporal Parts Hawley, Katherine 2004

˜A-theory™ of time argue that the flow of time pushes events from one ontological status to another (presentists are usually taken to be A-theorists too).

Temporal Parts Hawley, Katherine 2004

In the classroom, we are all presentists, as Simpson admits.

Presentism vs. Archivalism in Research and the Classroom: Introduction 2002

This curious note of sympathy with the more youthful presentists in his audience puts Chase in enough of a bind about the matter that he has to finish his paragraph with an emphatic final reason why you must overcome your impulse to presentism: "I can't give passing grades to presentists!"

Presentism and the Archives 2002