Journal of Philosophical Research

ONLINE FIRST

published on July 12, 2017

Kai Büttner, David Dolby

What’s Done, Is Done

Luca Barlassina and Fabio del Prete argue that the past has changed by appealing to a sentence whose truth value changes after the time to which it refers. We consider various interpretations of the sentence at issue and show that there is no interpretation under which their argument goes through. We suggest a possible source of the confusion and consider what implications the discussion may have for the analysis of tense.