Present Position:  Professor of Philosophy, Wayne State University

Address:

Department of Philosophy
Wayne State University
51 W. Warren, Rm. 3204
Detroit, Michigan 48202

Phone: (313) 577-6099
Fax: (313) 577-2077
E-mail: L.B.Lombard@wayne.edu
Department Web Page: http://www.la.wayne.edu/Philosophy/Index.html

Cornell University (1961-1965), A.B., Philosophy (6/65)
Stanford University (1965-1969), Ph.D., Philosophy (6/74)

Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Wayne State University, 1969-1979 (Tenure awarded 6/76)
Associate Professor of Philosophy, Wayne State University, 1979-1987
Acting Chair, Department of Philosophy, Wayne State University, January-June, l981, Summer, 1993
Professor of Philosophy, Wayne State University, 1987-
Chair, Department of Philosophy, Wayne State University, 1996-2001

Event Theory
Metaphysics

Book:

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

Articles:

1. "Grice's Intentions", Philosophical Studies 25:3 (1974), 207-212, co-authored with G.C. Stine.

2. "A Note on Level-Generation and the Time of a Killing", Philosophical Studies 26:2 (1974), 151-152.

3. "Events, Changes, and the Non-extensionality of 'Become'", Philosophical Studies 28:2 (1975), 131-136.

4. "Chisholm and Davidson on Events and Counterfactuals", Philosophia:  Philosophical Quarterly of Israel, Vol. VII (1977), 515-522.

5. "Actions, Results, and the Time of a Killing", Philosophia:  Philosophical Quarterly of Israel, Vol. VIII (1978), 341-354.

6. "Relational Change and Relational Changes", Philosophical Studies 34:1 (1978), 63-79.

7. "The Extensionality of Causal Contexts:  Comments on Rosenberg and Martin", Midwest Studies in Philosophy, Vol IV (1979), 409-415.

8. "Events", Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Vol. IX, No. 3 (September, 1979), 425-460.  Anthologized in R. Casati and A. Varzi (eds.), Events (Hants, England: Dartmouth Publishing Co., 1996), 177-212, The International Research Library of Philosophy 15.

9. "Events and Their Subjects", Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 62:2 (April, 1981), 138-147.

10. "Events and the Essentiality of Time", Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Vol. XII, No. 1 (March, 1982), 1-17.

11. "Review of Davidson's Essays on Actions and Events", Canadian Philosophical Reviews, Vol. II, Nos. 2-3 (June, 1982), 81-84.

12. "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.

13. "'Unless', 'Until', and the Time of a Killing", Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 70:2 (June, 1989), 135-154.

14. "Causes, Enablers, and the Counterfactual Analysis", Philosophical Studies, Vol. 59 (1990), 195-211.

15. Entry on "Change", Handbook of Ontology and Metaphysics (Munich: Philosophia Verlag, 1990), Barry Smith and Hans Burkhardt (eds), Vol. I, 137-139.

16. Entry on "Events", Handbook of Ontology and Metaphysics (Munich: Philosophia Verlag, 1990), Barry Smith and Hans Burkhardt (eds), Vol. I, 256-259.

17. "Events, Counterfactuals, and Speed", Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 70, No. 2 (June, 1992), 187-197.

18. "Causes and Enablers: A Reply to Mackie", Philosophical Studies, Vol. 65 (1992), 319-322.

19. "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.

20. "The Doctrine of Temporal Parts and the 'No-Change' Objection", Philosophy and Phenomenological Research Vol. LIV, No. 2 (June, 1994), 365-372.

21. Entry on "Event Theory", A Companion to Metaphysics (London: Basil Blackwell, 1995), Jaegwon Kim & Ernest Sosa (eds.), 140-144.

22. Entry on "Individuation", A Companion to Metaphysics (London: Basil Blackwell, 1995), Jaegwon Kim & Ernest Sosa (eds.), 239-241.

23. "Sooner or Later", Noûs, Vol. 29, No. 3 (1995), 343-359.

24. "Delaying, Preventing, and Disenabling", Philosophia:  Philosophical Quarterly of Israel, Vol. 24:3-4 (December, 1995), 433-447.

25. "Ontologies of Events", inContemporary Readings in the Foundation of Metaphysics(Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 1998), S. Laurence and C.A. Macdonald, eds., 277-294.

26. "On the Alleged Incompatibility of Presentism and Perduring Entities", Philosophia: Philosophical Quarterly of Israel Vol. 27, Nos. 1-2 (March, 1999).

27. "The Lowe Road to the Problem of Temporary Intrinsics", Philosophical Studies 112 (January, 2003), pp. 163-185.

28. "The Cambridge Solution to the Time of a Killing", Philosophia: Philosophical Quarterly of Israel (forthcoming).
 
 

1. "Quotations and Complex Singular Terms", Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, Winter,1969.

2. "Actions, Results, and the Time of a Killing", the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, North Carolina, January, 1976.

3. "The Extensionality of Causal Contexts:  Comments on Rosenberg and Martin", The Central Division Meetings of the American Philosophical Association, Chicago, Illinois, April, 1977.

4. "Events", Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, July, 1978.

5. "Causal Verbs and the Individuation of Action:  Comments on Professor Price", The Central Division Meetings of the American Philosophical Association, Columbus, Ohio, April, 1982.

6. "Actions Performed For Their Own Sake: Comments on Professor Mele", The Central Division Meetings of the American Philosophical Association, Cincinnati, Ohio, April, 1988.

7. "Comments on Susan C. Hale's, 'A Defense of Identity Conditions for Events in Purely Spatio-Temporal Terms'", The Eastern Division Meetings of the American Philosophical Association, Atlanta, Georgia, December, 1989.

8. "Comments on Professor Gill's Paper", The Joint Meetings of the Central States Philosophical Asociation and the Illinois Philosophy Association, Edwardsville, Ill., Nov., 1990.

9. "Logical Form and the Theory of Events: A Plea for Metaphysics", Symposium on the Philosophy of Language, The Pacific Division Meetings, American Philosophical Association, San Francisco, California, March, 1991. (Co-symposiasts: Terry Parsons and Stephen Neale).

10. "Superficial Comments on the Surfaces of Objects: Comments on Professor Zimmerman's Paper", The Central Division meetings of the American Philosophical Association, Louisville, Kentucky, April, 1992.

11. "Comments on Merricks' 'On the Incompatibility of Enduring and Perduring Entities'", The Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Virginia Beach, Virginia, April 14, 1995.

12. "Comments on Ehring's 'Extrinsicness, Identity, Times, and Worlds'", The Central Division Meetings of the American Philosophical Association, Chicago, Illinois, April, 1995.

13. "On the Alleged Incompatibility of Enduring and Perduring Entities", Michigan State University, March, 1996.

14. "Comments on Professor Harris's Paper, 'On What There Isn't'", the Central Division Meetings of the American Philosophical Association, Chicago Illinois, April, 1996.

15. "Beliefs and Propositions: Comments on Peard", the Pacific Division Meetings of the American Philosophical Association, Oakland, California, April, 1999.

16.  " Lombard on Allen on Lombard", the Eastern Division Meetings of the American Philosophical Association", Boston, MA, December, 1999.

17.  "Slicing Worms:  Comments on Moyer's Paper", the Central Division Meetings of the American Philosophical Association, Minneapolis, MN, May, 2001.

18.  "Ochlophobia:  Comments on Phelan's 'On Numerous Coincident Objects of the Same Kind'", the Pacific Division Meetings of the American Philosophical Association, San Francisco, CA, March, 2003.
 

1. "Chisholm and Davidson on Events and Counterfactuals", The Eighteenth Annual Illinois Philosophy Conference, Illinois State University, Bloomington-Normal, Illinois, November, 1974.

2. "Events and Quality Spaces", The Central Division Meetings of the American Philosophical Association, New Orleans, La., May, 1976.

3. "Some Remarks Concerning the Essentiality of Causes and Effects", The Pacific Division Meetings of the American Philosophical Association, San Francisco, California, March, 1980.

4. "The Essentiality of the Subjects of Change", The Central Division Meetings of the American Philosophical Association, Detroit, Michigan, April, 1980.

5. "Causes, Enablers, and the Counterfactual Analysis", The Central States Philosophical Association Meetings, Iowa City, Iowa, October, 1989.  Also read at the Central Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, New Orleans, LA, April, 1990.

6. "Cambridge Changes and Events with Plural Subjects", The Pacific Division Meetings of the American Philosophical Association, San Francisco, California, March, 1993.

7. "Could an event have ended sooner than it did?", The Pacific Division Meetings of the American Philosophical Association, San Francisco, California, March, 1995.

8. "On the Alleged Incompatibility of Presentism and Temporal Parts", The Pacific Division Meetings of the Americal Philosophical Association, Berkeley, California, March, 1997.

9. "The Lowe Road to the Problem of Temporary Intrinsics", The Pacific Division Meetings of the American Philosophical Association, Albuquerque, New Mexico, April, 2000.
 

Professional Organizations:

American Philosophical Association, Central Division
American Association of University Professors

Program Committees for 1984 and 1997 Central Division Meetings of the American Philosophical Assocation

Occasional Referee for Australasian Journal of Philosophy, The Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Erkenntnis, The Monist, Nous, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophical Studies, Synthese, Linguistics and Philosophy, Philosophical Studies, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Prentice-Hall, Cambridge University Press, Simon and Schuster, Philosophy Documentation Center

Academic Senate (9/82-6/86).
Special Assignments:  Student Affairs Committee (1982-83), Support Services Committee (1983-84), Faculty Affairs Committee (1984-85), Curriculum and Instruction Committee (1984-86)

Liberal Arts Faculty Council (1989-2002).
Special Assignments:  President of Council, 1994-96), Curriculum Sub-committee (1996-2001)

College of Liberal Arts Promotion and Tenure Committee (1991-93, 1995-96, 2001-04)
College of Liberal Arts Computer Committee (2001- )
WSU Summer Research Grant Committee: Humanities (1989, 1995)
Liberal Arts Salary Committee (1992-1994)
AAUP-WSU Chapter Council (11/73-9/80)
College of Liberal Arts Comparative Arts Committee
WSU Distinguished Graduate Faculty Award Committee (1982)
WSU College of Liberal Arts Dean's Search Committee (1982-1983)
Liberal Arts Natural Science Group Requirement Committee (1983)
Liberal Arts Grievance Panel (1983-1992)
Review Advisory Panel for Department of Greek and Latin (1989)
Review Advisory Panel for the Center for Judaic Studies (1992-1993)

Chair (1996-2001)
Acting Chairperson (Winter, 1981; Summer, 1993)
Director of Undergraduate Studies (1972 - 1996)
Promotion and Tenure Committee (1976 - 1996, 2001-  )
Department Webmaster (1996-  )
Committee on General Education (1985 - 1996)
Informal Logic Committee (1979 - 1996)
Curriculum Committee (9/75 -  )
Salary Committee (1973-1996, 2001- )
Secretary for Department Meetings (9/72 - 6/76)
M.A. and Ph.D. Committees and Supervision