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Dean Zimmerman

Disciplines:
theology/philosophy of religion
metaphysics

Summary

American metaphysician who has defended presentism and worked on God's relationship to time, material constitution, and persistence through change.

Core Contribution

Defended presentism — only the present moment is real — against four-dimensionalism. Argues that God is in time but not in a time created with the universe. Contributed to the analysis of material constitution and persistence.

Notable Works & Achievements

Persistence and Presentism

Metaphysics: The Big Questions

Historical Influences

Peter van Inwagen Alvin Plantinga

Intellectual Lineage

Analytic Metaphysics Christian Philosophy

Contemporaries & Peers

Kristie Miller Barry Dainton

Minds Influenced

No recorded minds influenced.

Intellectual Posterity

Presentism

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