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37Ready Player One? A Response to RicksandJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 79 (3): 388-391. 2021.I respond to Martin Ricksand’s recommendation that my arguments that current, typical video games are not works for performance be replaced with an argument that no video game could possibly be a work for performance. I cast doubt both on Ricksand’s premise that all video games are games, and on his arguments that no game could be a work for performance.
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34Groove: A Phenomenology of Rhythmic Nuance by Tiger C. RoholtJournal of Aesthetic Education 51 (1): 115-119. 2017.Musicians of all sorts talk of getting “into a groove,” whether using those words or others; musical listeners also talk about the groove of a passage of music, a performance, or a recording. In his four-chapter essay, Groove, Tiger Roholt offers answers to questions that seem obvious candidates for philosophical inquiry yet that few philosophers have even touched on: what is a groove, exactly, and what is it to perceive or understand—to get— a groove? His answers are intriguing, not just becaus…Read more
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32The Heart of Classical Work-PerformanceBritish Journal of Aesthetics 62 (1): 125-141. 2022.In this critical study of Julian Dodd’s Being True to Works of Music, I argue that the three-tier normative profile of the work-performance tradition in classical music that Dodd defends should be rejected in favour of a two-tier version. I also argue that the theory of work-performance defended in the book fits much more naturally with a contextualist ontology of musical works than with the Platonist ontology Dodd defends in Works of Music, despite his arguments to the contrary in the afterword…Read more
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29Performances and RecordingsIn Theodore Gracyk & Andrew Kania (eds.), Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Music, Routledge. pp. 80-90. 2011.An overview of philosophical issues raised by musical performances and recordings.
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23Home to Roost: Some Problems for the Nested-Types Theory of Musical Works, Versions, and Authentic PerformanceEstetika: The European Journal of Aesthetics 59 (2): 153-164. forthcoming.Nemesio G. C. Puy argues that the "nested types" ontology of works of Western classical music can solve recent disagreements about such works' authentic performance. I raise several objections to his argument.
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19Piece for the End of Time: In Defence of Musical Ontology: ArticlesBritish Journal of Aesthetics 48 (1): 65-79. 2008.Aaron Ridley has recently attacked the study of musical ontology—an apparently fertile area in the philosophy of music. I argue here that Ridley's arguments are unsound. There are genuinely puzzling ontological questions about music, many of which are closely related to questions of musical value. While it is true that musical ontology must be descriptive of pre-existing musical practices and that some debates, such as that over the creatability of musical works, have little consequence for ques…Read more
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19Against them, too: A reply to AlwardJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 65 (4). 2007.A response to Peter Alward's objections to the view that there may be fictional narratives without nonactual narrators.
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18Art as Performance (review)Mind 114 (453): 137-141. 2005.A review of David Davies, _Art as Performance_ (Blackwell, 2004).
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8DefinitionIn Theodore Gracyk & Andrew Kania (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Music, Routledge. 2011.An introduction to the project of defining music, which considers extant definitions and suggests a new definition.
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7RealismIn Paisley Livingston & Carl Plantinga (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Film, Routledge. 2008.An overview of the philosophical issues raised by the claim that film is a realistic medium, covering the realism of film images' motion, photographic representation, and pictorial representation.
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7A Horny DilemmaIn Fritz Allhoff, Michael Bruce & Robert M. Stewart (eds.), College Sex ‐ Philosophy for Everyone, Wiley‐blackwell. 2010-09-24.This chapter contains sections titled: Pat and Sam Who Are We Talking About? Things That Are Just Plain Wrong Friendship and Sexual Relationships Harms and Benefits of Student‐Professor Relationships Spending More Time Biased Assessment The Benefits of Friendship Avoiding Injustice Policing Pat and Sam.
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4Performances and recordingsIn Theodore Gracyk & Andrew Kania (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Music, Routledge. 2011.An overview of the philosophical questions raised by musical performances and recordings.
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MementoIn Paisley Livingston & Carl Plantinga (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Film, Routledge. 2008.
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