•  Forthcoming. (with Sam Baron and Kristie Miller). ‘Locative Grounding Harmony’, Philosophical Studies                                                                                   
  

• Forthcoming. (with Donatella Donati). ‘Time and Causation’, in Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Time. Nina Emery (ed)        

• Forthcoming. (with Sam Baron and Kristie Miller) 'Presentism and Representation: Saying it Without Words', Synthese

• 2024. (with Andy Fisher) 'Teaching and knowledge: uneasy bedfellows', Journal of Philosophy of Education, ​58, 24-40

• 2024. 'Trusting what ought to happen', Erkenntnis​, 78, 1887-1902     
  

• 2023. (with Sareh Pouryousefi) 'Empirical Reflections on Trust in Groups', Journal of the American Philosophical Association, 9, 450-70
  

• 2023. (with David Ingram) 'Presentism: past and future' in Lestienne, R. and Harris, P. eds. Time and Science Volume 1: The Metaphysics of Time and Its Evolution, 191-209
  

• 2022. (with Sam Baron and Kristie Miller) 'The Harmony of Grounding', Philosophical Studies​, 179, 3421–3446
  

• 2021. (with David Ingram) 'The Rotten Core of Presentism', Synthese​, 3969–3991
  

• 2021. (with Sam Baron and Kristie Miller) 'Temporal Fictionalism for a Timeless world', Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 102, 281-301
  

• 2021. (with Giacomo Andreoletti and Giuliano Torrengo) 'Purely Theoretical Explanation', ​Philosophia, 49, 133-54 
  

• 2021. (with Sam Baron) 'It's one thing to rule them all, another thing to bind them', Synthese​, 198, 105-15
  

• 2020. (with Sam Baron and Kristie Miller) 'Grounding at a Distance', Philosophical Studies​, 177, 3373-90
  

• 2020.(with Andy Fisher) 'Might Teaching by Judgement Dependent?' Philosophia​, 48, 777-87
  

• 2020. (with David Ingram) 'Presentism and the Spans of Time', Philosophy and Phenomenological Research​, 101, 200-14
  

• 2020. (with Andy Fisher). 'Trust in Education', Educational Philosophy and Theory, 52, 780-90
  

• 2020. (with David Ingram) 'A Defence of Lucretian Presentism', Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 98, 675-90
  

• 2020. (with Daniel Deasy) ‘Hazardous Safety Conditions Persist’, Erkenntnis, 87, 1635-1658    
  

• 2020. (with James Andow) 'English Language and Philosophy', in D. Knight and S. Adolphs (eds.) English Language and Digital Humanities London: Routledge
  

• 2020. (with Donatella Donati) 'Trust: from the philosophical to the commercial', Philosophy of Management, ​19, 3-19
  

• 2019. 'You can​ trust the ladder, but you shouldn't', Theoria​, 85, 102-118
  

• 2019. 'Presentism Remains', Erkenntnis​, 84, 409-34
  

• 2019. 'Causation in a Timeless World?', Inquiry, 69, 309-25​ 
  

• 2018. 'An Error in Temporal Error Theory', Journal of the American Philosophical Association, 4, 14-32 
  

• 2018. 'Presentism, Persistence and Trans-temporal Dependence', Philosophical Studies, 175, 2209-2220
  

• 2018. (with Sam Baron) 'Do not revise Ockham's razor without necessity', Philosophy and Phenomenological Research​, 96, 596-619
  

• 2018. (with David Ingram) 'Presentism', Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
  

• 2017. (with David Ingram) 'Truth and Dependence', Ergo​, 4, 955-80
  

• 2017. 'Commitment in Cases of Trust and Distrust', Thought​, 6, 261-7 
  

• 2017. 'Critical Review of Truth and Truthbearers, by Mark Richard', Analysis​, 77, 839-48
  

• 2017. (with Lina Jansson) ‘Quantitative Parsimony: Probably for the Better’, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science​, 68, 781-803
  

• 2016. 'Temporal Passage and the No Alternate Possibilities Argument', Manuscrito, 39, 35-47  [Special Issue on the Philosophy of Time, with a response written by Tim Maudlin]
  

• 2016. (with Sam Baron) ‘Monism: the Islands of Plurality’, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 93, 583-606
  

• 2016. (with Gabriele Neher) ‘The Philosophy of time and the implications from Renaissance Art’, in Goetsche, D. ed. Critical Time in Modern German Literature and Culture Peter Lang Press: Oxford, 27-46  
  

• 2015. ‘The New A-theory of Time’, Inquiry: Special Issue on Tensism, 58, 535-60                                                                             
  

• 2015. ‘Ontological Dependence in a Space-time World’, Philosophical Studies, 172, 3101-3118
  

• 2015. ‘Presentism, Truthmaking and Necessary Connections’, Theoria, 81, 211-21
  

• 2015. ‘Metaphysics, Intuitions and Physics’, Ratio, 28, 286-301 
  

• 2015. (with David Ingram) ‘Nefarious Presentism’, Philosophical Quarterly, 65, 355-71
  

• 2015. ‘Immodest and Proud’, Erkenntnis, 80, 853-68 
  

• 2014. ‘Against Mereological Nihilism’, Synthese, 191, 1511-27 
  

• 2014. ‘Defining Existence Presentism’, Erkenntnis, 79, 479-501
  

• 2013. ‘Intuitions in Physics’, Synthese, 190, 2959-2980
  

• 2013. ‘Quantitative Parsimony and the Metaphysics of Time: Motivating Presentism’, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 87, 688-705
  

• 2013. ‘Mathematics, Pretense and Cognitive Neuroscience’, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 64, 817-35 
  

• 2013. ‘Dubious by Nature’, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 43, 97-116          
  

• 2013. ‘An Heterodox Presentism: Kit Fine’s theory’, in Roberto Ciuni, Kristie Miller, and Giuliano Torrengo, eds. New Papers on the Present. Philosophia Verlag, Munchen, 281-306                                                                                               
  

• 2013. ‘Problems of Parthood for Proponents of Priority’, Analysis, 73, 429-38
  

• 2013. ‘Optimus Prime: A Nominalist Paraphrase of Prime Number Talk’, Synthese, 190, 2065-83
  

• 2013. ‘Recent work on Time’, Analysis, 73, 369-7
  

• 2012. (with David Ingram) ‘Presentism and Distributional Properties’, Oxford Studies in Metaphysics, volume 7, 305-14 
  

• 2012. ‘(Existence) Presentism and the A-theory’, Analysis, 72, 673-81
  

• 2012. (with David Ingram) ‘Time for Distribution?’, Analysis, 72, 264-70
  

• 2011. ‘There’s no future in no futurism’, Erkenntnis, 74, 37-52
  

• 2010.  ‘There’s no existent like ‘no existence’ like no existent I know’, Philosophical Studies ,148, 387- 400 
  

• 2010. ‘Still Cheating, Still Prospering’, Analysis, 70, 502-6
  

• 2010. ‘Time for Presence?’, Philosophia, 38, 271-80 
  

• 2010. ‘Not a Total failure’, Philosophia, 38, 795-810 
  

• 2010. ‘Memory, Anticipation and the (Un)reality of the Past and Future’, in Parker, J.A., Harris, P. and  Steineck, C. eds. Time: Limits and Constraints Brill: Leiden, 89-108                                                                                       
  
• 2010. ‘Sketch of a Presentist Theory of Passage’, Erkenntnis, 73, 133-40 
  

• 2009. ‘Presentism and Truth-making’, Erkenntnis, 71, 407-16

• 2009. ‘Ontological Cheats Might Just Prosper’, Analysis, 69, 422-430 
  

• 2008. ‘What is it to ‘B’ a relation?’, Synthese, 162 ,117-132
  

• 2007. ‘There Have Been, Are (Now), and Will Be Lots of Times Like the Present in the Hybrid View of Time’, Analysis, 67, 83-6
  

• 2007. ‘What is B-time?’, Analysis, 67, 147-56 
  

• 2005. ‘McTaggart: That to which we are Compelled to Respond’, Philosophical Writings 28, 3-12
  

• 2005.  ‘Formulating Temporal Minimalism’ Proceedings of the Durham-Bergen Conference Vol II, 1-12    

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Email: jonathan.tallant@nottingham.ac.uk 

​Jonathan Tallant

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About my research

I do most of my work in metaphysics and in the philosophy of trust, but also sometimes in the philosophy of education and the philosophy of science.

I enjoy collaborating and am currently involved in projects with colleagues based in Australia, Canada, Italy, the UK and the USA. Get in touch if you're interested in working with me. 

• 2022. (with Kristie Miller and Sam Baron) Out of Time: A Philosophical Investigation of Timelessness Oxford University Press 
  

• 2017. Truth and the World: An Explanationist Account London: Routledge 
  

• 2017. Metaphysics: An Introduction (Second Edition) London: Bloomsbury 
  

• 2015. (with Andrew Fisher) How To Get Philosophy Students Talking? An Instructor's Toolkit London: Routledge 
  

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• 2011. Metaphysics: An Introduction London: Continuum (110000 words)  

• ​2024. Project Co-Lead: (£99,000) from the UKRI. 'Tackling epidemic threats by advancing the science of human interactions and infection '.

• 2022: Primary-Investigator: (£93,000) from the City Council and ICP to support research looking to ameliorate health inequalities in the region.  
  

• 2022: Primary-Investigator: (£13,000) QR-PSF funding, allocated by UoN: ‘Health Inequalities’. 

• 2017: Co-Investigator: ($202,000 AUD) ‘Time: The Scientific and Folk Perspectives’, Australian Research Council Discovery Grant 

• 2017: Primary-Investigator: ($5,000 AUD) Visiting Fellowship for a project on timelessness at the University of Sydney 

• 2016: Primary Investigator: (£5,000) Business Innovation funding to support work  on trust in the digital economy  

• 2014: Co-Investigator: ($20,000 AUD) ‘Explanation in Science and Metaphysics: Bridging the Gap’, a research collaboration award made by the University of Western Australia (PI: Dr. Sam Baron) 

• 2014: Primary-Investigator: (£4,600) from the University of Nottingham Centre for Advanced Study to employ an RA to work on a collaborative project with the British Horological Institute. 

• 2014: Primary-Investigator: (£2500) HERMES/HEIF bursary from the University of Nottingham to develop commercial work with a start up

• 2013: Primary-Investigator: ($9840AUD) from the New Agendas in Time

• 2013: Primary-Investigator: (£5,000) from the Nottingham/Birmingham Strategic Development Fund