Events: A Metaphysical Study

The Talk I Was Supposed to Give

“…33 Of course, staying put would be a pretty boring action (perhaps not even an action), but it would still qualify as an occurrence of some sort. Following Bennett (1988), § 60, and contra Lombard (1986), I don't see any interesting structural difference between "dynamic" occurrences (i.e., events that involve change) and "static" property instances.…”

Event As A Concept Of Philosophy And Narratology

“…In this case, event turns out to be a four-dimensional object (Quine, 1960;Goodman, 2012;Bennett, 1988). Lawrence Lombard believes that the ontological basis of an event is change (Lombard, 2019). Boris Hennig divides all "occurrents" into two main types: extended in time and instant.…”

Events, processes, and the time of a killing

“…But an event that is some completed change or other cannot itself change, on pain of becoming a different change and hence a different event. This is often put by saying that events conform to the doctrine of Mereological Essentialism, meaning that they have their temporal parts essentially (for defenses see, among others, Lombard 1986, Simons 1987, and Neale 1993. 3 It is only if X is (or was) progressing that we can speak of X as having changed at some point while still remaining one and the same X.…”