“A Goblin Walking Quietly Over the Universe”: Artifactual Events and Musical Experience

Simon Evnine (University of Miami)

5 December 2025, 16:00 (Lisbon Time – WET)

Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa

Sala Mattos Romão [C201.J] (Departamento de Filosofia)

Abstract: In this paper, I take my account of the making of artifactual objects and see whether it can apply to artifactual events. I propose several ways in which one might, in line with my approach, make an artifactual event. On the basis of the last of these ways, I engage in a brief discussion of musical experience, which I suggest is a kind of artifactual event.