Fifty Years of Events: An Annotated Bibliography 1947 to 1997

by Achille C. Varzi, Roberto Casati (Editor)

This bibliography is concerned with recent literature on the nature of events and the place they occupy in our conceptual scheme. Most entries are annotated, sometimes including brief quotations and cross-references. The work includes complete subject and name indexes, as well as an index to second and subsequent authors.

402 pages, Hardcover

First published April 1, 1997

About the author

Achille C. Varzi is an Italian-born philosopher. He teaches at Columbia University, where he has been a member of the philosophy faculty since 1995.

Varzi has made notable contributions to the fields of philosophical logic (mainly vagueness, supervaluationism, paraconsistency, formal semantics) and metaphysics (mainly mereology and mereotopology, causation, events, and issues relating to identity and persistence through time). His first book, Holes and Other Superficialities (1994, with Roberto Casati), was an exploration of the realist ontology of common sense and naive physics. His more recent work is inspired by a nominalist-conventionalist stance.

Varzi is currently an editor of The Journal of Philosophy and an advisory editor of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Varzi is also a prolific writer for the general public and contributes regularly to several Italian newspapers.

Achille C. Varzi is a second cousin of the Italian racecar driver Achille Varzi.