5. Sounds as Events

Author: O'Callaghan, Casey

Source: Sounds, October 2007 , pp. 57-72(16)

Publisher: Oxford Scholarship Online Monographs

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Abstract:

Sounds are distally located events that require the presence of a medium. Events in which vibrating objects or interacting bodies disturb a surrounding medium in a wave-like manner best satisfy the desiderata for a theory of sounds. Such medium-disturbing events are individuated primarily in terms of spatio-temporal continuity. Worries about the metaphysical status of relational or causal events and about the perceptibility of medium-disturbing events are answered.

Keywords: sound individuation; perception of causation; medium-disturbing events; causal events

Document Type: Research article

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