Publisher's Synopsis
Philosophical questions about events lie at the crossing of several disciplines, from metaphysics and logic to philosophy of language, action theory, the philosophy of space and time. A comprehensive theory of the world cannot eschew the problem of finding a place to events, hence of specifying identity and individuation criterion for them; nor can a theory of meaning refrain from giving an account of the logical form of eventive sentences and of the structure of event names. Such accounts have far-reaching consequences and in recent years they have been a focus of investigation outside philosophy too, most notably in linguistics and artificial intelligence. Starting from Donald DavidsonÆs seminal papers, this anthology brings together for the first time a representative selection of articles that have deeply influenced the debate on these topics, paving the way to an understanding of the role played by events in our representation of the world.
