Abstract
According to presentism, only what is present exists. According to moderate presentism, only present events exists, which rules out past and future events, but leaves room, in some sense, for past and future times and objects. Building on my previous publications on moderate presentism, I shall consider what I take to be the main motivations for presentism and show how these can also be used in favor of moderate presentism. I shall also more precisely specify moderate presentism and carefully distinguish it from other positions in the metaphysics of time, with which it could be or actually was confused. Finally, I shall consider some traditional objections to presentism, as well as some new ones such as those recently put forward by Tooley and Leininger, and show how moderate presentism can address them.
