Events and Their Names (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780198248415)

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.

Author: Jonathan Bennett,Stephen Bennett
ISBN-10: 0198248415
ISBN-13: 9780198248415
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Language: English
Published: 03/13/2002
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.84lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.58d