Some claim that when an agent does something, their action should be treated as a particular event. However, a challenge to this has it that if we understand agency through the category particular event, then we must also deploy another, process, because we act in the present but particular events can only exist in the past. In this paper, I show how this argument can be resisted, but suggest that consideration of it should nevertheless lead one to adopt a conception of events which reflects the idea that intentional action involves self-known change. We thus get into focus how understanding agency in terms of events involves attending to the interaction between the nature of events, the metaphysics of tense, and our epistemological situation as agents.

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如何应付事件

一些人声称，当一个代理做某事时，他们的行为应该被视为一个特定的事件。然而，对此的挑战在于，如果我们通过特定事件类别来理解代理，那么我们还必须部署另一个过程，因为我们在现在采取行动，但特定事件只能存在于过去。在本文中，我展示了如何抵制这一论点，但建议考虑它仍应导致人们采用一种事件概念，该概念反映了有意行为涉及自知变化的想法。因此，我们关注从事件的角度理解代理如何涉及关注事件的性质、时态的形而上学和我们作为代理的认识论情境之间的相互作用。