The event(s) of process

TY - CHAP

T1 - The event(s) of process

AU - Röck, Tina

PY - 2025/8

Y1 - 2025/8

N2 - There are two main readings of the term ‘event’ shaping contemporary philosophy. In the continental tradition the term usually refers to an emergence of meaning and a disruption of a given conceptual order. In this use ‘event’ is related to hierarchies, orders and structures of meaning; it is concerned with processes of meaning-making and I thus take it to be metaphysical in nature. In the analytic tradition, ‘events’ (plural) belong to the realm of category theory or ontology. They are ontological entities, bound processes or processual entities with a definite beginning and end. These events are particular, individual, ‘countable entities’ that are fundamentally temporal. What both traditions share in approaching the event/events is the insight that change, becoming, and movement are fundamental phenomena characterising our world, as well as the conviction that these phenomena need to be adequately accounted for. In what follows I will show how both analytic-ontological and continental-metaphysical approaches to event(s) can be fruitfully combined and embedded within a broadly dynamic understanding of reality, namely in an understanding of reality as process, where ‘process’ describes a general dynamicity denoting any kind of genuine movement that does not rest on or presuppose an unchanging basis.

AB - There are two main readings of the term ‘event’ shaping contemporary philosophy. In the continental tradition the term usually refers to an emergence of meaning and a disruption of a given conceptual order. In this use ‘event’ is related to hierarchies, orders and structures of meaning; it is concerned with processes of meaning-making and I thus take it to be metaphysical in nature. In the analytic tradition, ‘events’ (plural) belong to the realm of category theory or ontology. They are ontological entities, bound processes or processual entities with a definite beginning and end. These events are particular, individual, ‘countable entities’ that are fundamentally temporal. What both traditions share in approaching the event/events is the insight that change, becoming, and movement are fundamental phenomena characterising our world, as well as the conviction that these phenomena need to be adequately accounted for. In what follows I will show how both analytic-ontological and continental-metaphysical approaches to event(s) can be fruitfully combined and embedded within a broadly dynamic understanding of reality, namely in an understanding of reality as process, where ‘process’ describes a general dynamicity denoting any kind of genuine movement that does not rest on or presuppose an unchanging basis.

UR - https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-21st-century-philosophy-of-events.html

M3 - Chapter (peer-reviewed)

SN - 9781399539777

T3 - Intersections in Continental and Analytic Philisophy

BT - 21st Century Philosophy of Events

A2 - Bahoh, James

A2 - Cassina, Marta

A2 - Genovesi, Sergio

PB - Edinburgh University Press

CY - Edinburgh

ER -