Events and Modes
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Michele Paolini Paoletti
Abstract
I shall refine in this article Jaegwon Kim’s theory of events by appealing to modes, i.e., particular properties that also depend on their ‘bearers’ for their identity. Events will turn out to be occurrent modes, i.e., relational modes having further modes and times as their relata. In Section 1 I shall briefly present Kim’s theory and some difficulties that affect it. In Section 2, after having made some preliminary assumptions on modes and universals, I shall introduce occurrent modes. In Section 3 I shall show how my theory can deal with the difficulties discussed in Section 1.
Funding source: Ministero dell’Istruzione, dell’Università e della Ricerca
Award Identifier / Grant number: PRIN-2017 Project “The Manifest Image and the Scientific Image” (prot. n. 2017ZNWW7F)
Acknowledgments
I am grateful to Francesco Orilia for his helpful comments.
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Research funding: This work was supported by the Ministero dell’Istruzione dell’Università e della Ricerca (PRIN-2017 Project “The Manifest Image and the Scientific Image” [prot. n. 2017ZNWW7F]).
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