We are pleased to host a guest talk by Fabrice Correia (Professor of Analytic Philosophy, University of Geneva), presenting joint work with Sven Rosenkranz, LOGOS/University of Barcelona on Higher-Order Tense Realism.

The talk is on campus only. Non-KCL attendees are welcome but should register in advance. Details below.

Date and Time

Tuesday Oct 28th, 2025 at 17:30-19:00 UK Time (UTC)

Location

Room PB 508, Philosophy Building, Strand, London WC2B 4BG. Access via King’s Strand campus entrance and then King’s Building.

Accessibility. If you have special access needs, please send an email to julien.dutant@kcl.ac.uk for us to ensure that you can reach the room.

Non-KCL attendees are welcome but must register by sending an email to julien.dutant@kcl.ac.uk by Mondy 27th, 20:00 UTC and should check in as visitors upon arrival with the security desk at the Strand Building entrance (Strand Campus, Strand, London, WC2R 2LS).

Title and Abstract

Fabrice Correia & Sven Rosenkranz

Higher Order Tense Realism

Realism about tense comes in various forms. Kit Fine (“Tense and Reality”, 2005 and “The Reality of Tense”, 2006) offers a helpful taxonomy. In our paper “Eternal Facts in an Ageing Universe” (2012), we improve upon this taxonomy, identifying a further type of view that Fine leaves out: Dynamic Absolutism. Both these taxonomies construe the different versions of tense realism in terms of first-order quantification over facts or states of affairs. Our goal is to show that the logical space of these first-order tense-realist positions can be replicated using higher-order quantification instead. Along the way, we rebut an argument given by Lukas Skiba in his “Higher-Order Being and Time” (2025) to the effect that there is no coherent higher-order version of Dynamic Absolutism.

Organization

The talk is hosted by the Formal Methods Research group, Department of Philosophy, King’s College London.