A Program for "Naturalizing" Metaphysics, with Application to the Ontology of Events

Metaphysics seeks to understand the nature of the world as it is independently of how we think of it The suggestion that we should study the mind to understand reality would therefore strike many metaphysicians as wrong-headed. Metaphysical inquiry starts from such default judgments, but it is prepared to analyze or interpret them in alternative ways, or even to abandon them altogether. It merely suggests that the property's ontological status is importantly different from the way it is ordinarily represented.\n Since Davidson did not dispute the existence of "grander" actions-he did not deny that bodily movements have "higher-order" properties in addition to geometric or kinematic ones-he did not mentally represent actions exclusively by means of the spatio-temporal system.