Source Title:
Metaphysica
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Volume 16: Issue 2

Kim on Events

Simone Gozzano 1
  • 1 Department of Humanities, University of L’Aquila, Viale Nizza 14, 67100 L’Aquila, Italy
Simone Gozzano
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1515/mp-2015-0014
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Published online:
26 Jun 2015

Abstract

According to Kim, events are constituted by objects exemplifying property(ies) at a time. In this paper I wish to defend Kim’s theory of events from one source of criticism, extending it by taking into account a number of ideas developed by Davidson. In particular, I shall try to avoid events proliferation – one of the most serious problems in Kim’s theory – by using a suggestion Kim himself advances, that is, by taking adverbs and the like to be events’ rather than properties’ modifiers.

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Published Online:
2015-06-26
Published in Print:
2015-09-18

Citation Information: 
Metaphysica, Volume 16, Issue 2, Pages 195–209, eISSN 1874-6373, ISSN 1437-2053, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/mp-2015-0014.

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