TITLE: The Wave Theory of Time

ABSTRACT: This paper presents a new temporal ontology, to compete with presentism, eternalism, etc. Like moving spotlight theory, wave theory says (i) that there exist four-dimensional hunks of matter and (ii) the world is fundamentally tensed. However, everyday objects (you, me, everyone we know) are three-dimensional objects constituted by the presently existing instantaneous slices of the four-dimensional hunks (in the same way that some believe lumps constitute statues). This theory is to be recommended because: (i) it has the relevant truthmakers (unlike presentism); (ii) there are no non-present people and so it doesn’t have moving spotlight’s epistemic issues; (iii) we can capture the literal movement of objects through time.