# Sounds&Events **Opening (not a real abstract):** Sounds and Perception: New Philosophical Essays (OUP, Nudds and O'Callaghan, eds.) 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 a unified perceptual account of several pervasive sound phenomena, including transmission through barriers, constructive and destructive interference, and echoes. [A] 1. What is a sound? Sounds are public objects of auditory perception. When a car starts it makes a sound; when hands clap the result is a sound. Sounds are what we hear during episodes of genuine hearing. **Authors:** [[Casey O'Callaghan]]