Ideas of Jonathan Bennett, by Theme

[New Zealand, b.1931, Taught at Syracuse University.]

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7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 4. Events / a. Nature of events

8440	Maybe an event's time of occurrence is essential to it

8439	Maybe each event has only one possible causal history

7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 4. Events / c. Reduction of events

8978	Events are made of other things, and are not fundamental to ontology

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 1. Causation

8436	Either cause and effect are subsumed under a conditional because of properties, or it is counterfactual

8441	Delaying a fire doesn't cause it, but hastening it might

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 2. Types of cause

8435	Causes are between events ('the explosion') or between facts/states of affairs ('a bomb dropped')

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 8. Particular Causation / b. Causal relata

10364

Facts are about the world, not in it, so they can't cause anything

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / c. Counterfactual causation

8437	The full counterfactual story asserts a series of events, because counterfactuals are not transitive

8438	A counterfactual about an event implies something about the event's essence

27. Natural Reality / C. Space / 4. Substantival Space

8592	Empty space is measurable in ways in which empty time necessarily is not [Shoemaker]