@incollection{OCallaghan2009-OCASAE,title = {Sounds and Events},abstract = {I argue that sounds are best conceived not as pressure waves that travel through a medium, nor as physical properties of the objects ordinarily thought to be the sources of sounds, but rather as events of a certain kind. Sounds are particular events in which a surrounding medium is disturbed or set into wavelike motion by the activities of a body or interacting bodies. This Event View of sounds provides for a uni- ?ed perceptual account of several pervasive sound phenomena, including transmission through barriers, constructive and destructive interference, and echoes},author = {Casey O'Callaghan},editor = {Matthew Nudds and Casey O'Callaghan},publisher = {Oxford University Press},booktitle = {Sounds and Perception: New Philosophical Essays},year = {2009},pages = {26--49}}@