 The recent literature also contains a number of attempts to interpret traditional neutral monism as a form of physicalism. Banks (see section  5.2)  presents his neutral monism (realistic empiricism) as a direct descendant of traditional neutral monism (Banks 2014, viii). But he also holds that his neutral monism is “a kind of physicalism” (Banks 2014: 7, 142). Like Russell, he embraces an ontology of events. And he takes himself to follow Russell in construing these events as manifestations of underlying powers or energies—such as electromagnetism, gravitation, and nuclear forces (Banks 149), as well as neural energies (Banks 2014: 142). These considerations lead him to the following observation about the nature of Russell’s (and his own) event particulars: 