Events and Their Names

ISBN-13: 9780198248415 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 256 str.

Jonathan Bennett

Opis

This is a study of events and their place in our language and thought. The author discusses what kind of item an event is, how the language of events works and how these two themes are interrelated. He argues that most of the supposedly metaphysical literature on events is really about semantics of their names, and that the true metaphysic of events - known by Leibniz and rediscovered by Jaegwon Kim - has not been universally accepted because it has been obscured by a false semantic theory.

Recenzje

'This is a book full of arguments. Bennett has the virtue of not beating about the bush, so that a remarkable amount of ground gets covered, and the reader is never bored.' Roger Teichmann, Merton College, Oxford. Mind April'90