Lawrence Lombard

Lawrence Lombard

Date of birth: 24 November 1944

Research interest(s)/area of expertise

Metaphysics, event theory, causation, philosophy of space and time, philosophy of physics

Education

• Cornell University (1961-l965), A.B., Philosophy (June, 1965)
• Stanford University (1965-1969), Ph.D., Philosophy (June, 1974)

Selected publications

Book

• Events: A Metaphysical Study (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1986).

Articles

• "Grice's Intentions", Philosophical Studies 25:3 (1974), 207-212, co-authored with G.C. Stine
• "A Note on Level-Generation and the Time of a Killing", Philosophical Studies 26:2 (1974), 151-152
• "Events, Changes, and the Non-extensionality of 'Become'", Philosophical Studies 28:2 (1975), 131-136
• "Chisholm and Davidson on Events and Counterfactuals", Philosophia: Philosophical Quarterly of Israel, Vol. VII (1977), 515-522
• "Actions, Results, and the Time of a Killing", Philosophia: Philosophical Quarterly of Israel, Vol. VIII (1978), 341-354
• "Relational Change and Relational Changes", Philosophical Studies 34:1 (1978), 63-79
• "The Extensionality of Causal Contexts: Comments on Rosenberg and Martin", Midwest Studies in Philosophy, Vol IV (1979), 409-415
• "Events", Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Vol. IX, No. 3 (September, 1979), 425-460
• "Events and Their Subjects", Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 62:2 (April, 1981), 138-147
• "Events and the Essentiality of Time", Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Vol. XII, No. 1 (March, 1982), 1-17
• "How Not To Flip The Prowler: Transitive Verbs of Action and the Identity of Actions," Actions and Events: Perspectives on the Philosophy of Donald Davidson (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1985), E. LePore and B. McLaughlin (eds), 268-281
• "'Unless', 'Until', and the Time of a Killing", Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 70:2 (June, 1989), 135-154
• "Causes, Enablers, and the Counterfactual Analysis", Philosophical Studies, Vol. 59 (1990), 195-211
• "Events, Counterfactuals, and Speed", Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 70, No. 2 (June, 1992), 187-197
• "Causes and Enablers: A Reply to Mackie", Philosophical Studies, Vol. 65 (1992), 319-322
• "How Not to Flip the Switch with the Floodlight: Causative-Inchoative, the Instrumental 'With', and the Identity of Actions", Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 73, No. 1 (March, 1992), 31-43, co-authored with Patrick Francken
• "The Doctrine of Temporal Parts and the 'No-Change' Objection", Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol. LIV, No. 2 (June, 1994), 365-372
• "Sooner or Later", Noûs, Vol. 29, No. 3 (1995), 343-359.
• "Delaying, Preventing, and Disenabling", Philosophia: Philosophical Quarterly of Israel, Vol. 24:3-4 (December, 1995), 433-447
• "Ontologies of Events", in Contemporary Readings in the Foundation of Metaphysics (Oxford:
  Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 1998), S. Laurence and C.A. Macdonald, eds., 277-294
• "On the Alleged Incompatibility of Presentism and Perduring Entities", Philosophia:
  Philosophical Quarterly of Israel, Vol. 27, Nos. 1-2 (March, 1999)
• "The Cambridge Solution to the Time of a Killing", Philosophia: Philosophical Quarterly of
  Israel, Vol. 31, Nos. 1-2 (October, 2003), pp. 93-106
• "The Lowe Road to the Problem of Temporary Intrinsics", Philosophical Studies 112: 2 (January, 2003), pp. 163-185
• "Scope Fallacies and the 'Decisive Objection' Against Endurance", Philosophia: Philosophical Quarterly of Israel 34:4 (December, 2006), pp. 441-452
• "Time for a Change: A Polemic Against the Presentism/Eternalism Debate", Time and Identity
  (MIT Press, 2010), Campbell, O'Rourke, and Silverstein (eds.), pp.49-77
• "Causation by Absence:  Omission Impossible" (co-authored with Tiffany Hudson), Philosophia: Philosophical Quarterly of Israel, Vol.  48 (2020), pp. 625-641

Courses taught by Lawrence Lombard

Winter Term 2023

• PHI3550 - Metaphysics
• PHI3600 - Space, Time, and the Philosophy of Physics
• PHI5500 - Topics in Metaphysics
• PHI5800 - Special Topics in Philosophy

Winter Term 2022

• PHI1050 - Critical Thinking
• PHI3550 - Metaphysics
• PHI5500 - Topics in Metaphysics