Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Notes on Contributors vii
4. Acknowledgements xi
5. An Introduction to the Philosophy of Events: Issues in Analytic, Continental and Post-Divide Approaches 1
6. 1. Events, Actions and Agency Across the Analytic–Continental Divide 25
7. 2. Thinking as a Predictable Event vs the Event of Thinking as a Prophecy 44
8. 3. The Unforeseeability of the Event in Light of the COVID-19 Pandemic 61
9. 4. Towards an Empirical Realism about Events 73
10. 5. Alain Badiou’s Event and New Realism 92
11. 6. Event and Object: Badiou at the Place de la République 112
12. 7. Anomalous Monism and the Univocity of Being: Davidson, Deleuze, Spinoza 126
13. 8. Events in Contemporary Semantics 151
14. 9. Pre-Emergence: Schelling, Hegel and Natural Events 179
15. 10. Davidson, Strawson and a Hegelian Basis for an Ontology of Events 201
16. 11. The Event(s) of Process 219
17. 12. Modern Physics and the Ontology of Events 245
18. 13. The Limits of Process Philosophy and the Primacy of Substance 265
19. Appendix: The Disappearance of the Event 291
20. Index 302