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15L’appréciation esthétique de la musiqueNouvelle Revue d'Esthétique 15 (1): 135-147. 2015.Cet essai propose une esquisse de ce en quoi consiste fondamentalement l’appréciation esthétique de la musique, soulignant à la fois pourquoi un tel engagement compte comme esthétique et pourquoi il compte comme appréciation, et mettant en avant le rôle de la perception du geste dans la saisie de l’expressivité musicale. L’analyse est illustrée par une pièce de musique de chambre de Gabriel Fauré. Dans la dernière section, je fais écho à quelques remarques de Roger Scruton sur la connexion entre…Read more
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15A thousand entities: Comments on Haugeland's ontological supervenience'Southern Journal of Philosophy 22 (S1): 13-17. 1984.
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15Music and negative emotionIn Jenefer Robinson (ed.), Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Cornell University Press. pp. 327. 1982.
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14The end of art and beyond: essays after Danto (edited book)Humanities Press. 1997.The first half of this collection addresses these themes as given voice by the philosopher and critic Arthur Danto, while the second part contains essays of a more independent cast which assume a variety of stating points aimed at illuminating the theoreticity, temporality, computability, and abstract possibilities of present and future arts.
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13What a Musical Work Is, AgainIn Music, Art, and Metaphysics, Oxford University Press. pp. 215-263. 2011.
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13Aesthetic Pursuits: Essays in Philosophy of ArtOxford University Press. 2016.Aesthetic Pursuits is a new collection of essays from Jerrold Levinson, one of the most prominent philosophers of art today, focusing on literature, film, and visual art, while addressing issues of humour, beauty, and the emotions. More than half of the essays in the volume are previously unpublished.
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13A refiner's fire: Reply to Sartwell and KolakJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 48 (3): 231-235. 1990.
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13Musical Concerns: Essays in Philosophy of MusicOxford University Press. 2015.This volume presents a new collection of essays on music by Jerrold Levinson, one of the most prominent philosophers of art today. The essays are wide-ranging and represent some of the most stimulating work being done within analytic aesthetics. Three of the essays are previously unpublished, and four of them focus on music in the jazz tradition.
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12Response: A Thousand Entities: Comments on Haugeland’s ‘Ontological Supervenience’Southern Journal of Philosophy 22 (S1): 93-110. 1984.
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12Aesthetic PropertiesAristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 79 191-227. 2005.Jerrold Levinson maintains that he is a realist about aesthetic properties. This paper considers his positive arguments for such a view. An argument from Roger Scruton, that aesthetic realism would entail the absurd claim that many aesthetic predicates were ambiguous, is also considered and it is argued that Levinson is in no worse position with respect to this argument than anyone else. However, Levinson cannot account for the phenomenon of aesthetic autonomy: namely, that we cannot be put in a…Read more
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12Music in the MomentPhilosophical Review 109 (1): 141. 2000.Jerrold Levinson’s Music in the Moment is a welcome addition to the impressive list of books in aesthetics, particularly the philosophy of music, published in the last several years by Cornell University Press. In it Levinson expounds and defends a view, inspired by the work of the nineteenth-century English psychologist and musician Edmund Gurney, that he calls “concatenationism.” This view is billed as “a defense of the intuitive listener” against Schenkerian and other “architectonicist” theor…Read more
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11The Philosophy of Horror, or Paradoxes of the HeartJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 49 (3): 253-258. 1991.
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11Why There Are No TropesPhilosophy 81 (4): 563-580. 2006.This paper effectively inverts the argument of an earlier paper of mine, “The Particularisation of Attributes”, to argue that there are no necessarily particularised and unshareable attributes of the sort that contemporary metaphysics calls tropes. In that earlier paper I distinguished two kinds of attributes, namely, properties and qualities, and argued that if there were tropes they could only be particularised qualities, i.e. particularisations of, say, redness, rather than particularisations…Read more
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11La chanson populaire comme microcosme moral : les leçons de vie des standards de jazzNouvelle Revue D’Esthétique 11 (1): 147. 2013.
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9Aesthetics, Literature, and Life: Essays in Honor of Jean Pierre Cometti (edited book)Aesthetics. 2019.The complex relationship between life and the arts has always Vbeen a crucial topic in philosophical discourse. The essays in this book discuss fundamental issues of modern and contemporary aesthetics, drawing upon the work of the French philosopher Jean- Pierre Cometti, a key fi gure in the studies of aesthetics, pragmatism, and Austrian philosophy. The volume covers a wide-range of topics, from the examination of fundamental principles of art and literary criticism to a new understanding of th…Read more
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9Artist versus AestheteIn Anja Weiberg & Stefan Majetschak (eds.), Aesthetics Today: Contemporary Approaches to the Aesthetics of Nature and of Arts. Proceedings of the 39th International Wittgenstein Symposium in Kirchberg, De Gruyter. pp. 95-108. 2017.
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816 Hypothetical Intentionalism: Statement, Objections, and RepliesIn Michael Krausz (ed.), Is There a Single Right Interpretation?, Pennsylvania State University Press. pp. 309-318. 2002.
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7The Oxford Handbook of Western Music and Philosophy (edited book)OUP. 2020.Whether regarded as a perplexing object, a morally captivating force, an ineffable entity beyond language, or an inescapably embodied human practice, music has captured philosophically inclined minds since time immemorial. In turn, musicians of all stripes have called on philosophy as a source of inspiration and encouragement, and scholars of music through the ages have turned to philosophy for insight into music and into the worlds that sustain it. In this Handbook, contributors build on this l…Read more
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7Intention and interpretation: A last lookIn Gary Iseminger (ed.), Intention and Interpretation, Temple University Press. pp. 221--56. 1992.
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7Music-Specific Emotion: An Elusive QuarryEstetika: The European Journal of Aesthetics 53 (2): 115. 2020.
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7Reply to Riggle: Aesthetic History, Personality, and ProfileJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 71 (3): 281-282. 2013.
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6Aesthetic PropertiesAristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 79 191-227. 2005.[Derek Matravers] Jerrold Levinson maintains that he is a realist about aesthetic properties. This paper considers his positive arguments for such a view. An argument from Roger Scruton, that aesthetic realism would entail the absurd claim that many aesthetic predicates were ambiguous, is also considered and it is argued that Levinson is in no worse position with respect to this argument than anyone else. However, Levinson cannot account for the phenomenon of aesthetic autonomy: namely, that we …Read more
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6About aboutness: poema pazzo pour ArturoRivista di Estetica 35 (2): 397-398. 2007.“What’s it all about?”,on a demandé, il y a cinquante ans,d’un certain Alfie, incarnò mémorablement par Michael Caine.Mais c’est pas clair quii a jamais su répondre. Tuttavia, è venuto, un po’ dopo,un filosofo, che si chiama Danto, Arturo.Lui sapeva assai bene rispondervi,cambiando, però, la domanda. Perché Danto s’è domandato, non“What’s it all about?”, ma piuttostoWhat is always about something?” E a questa domanda, ha risposto,in parte, “L’arte”. But other things are about other things,...