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    This paper defends Musical Stage Theory as a novel account of the ontology of musical works. Its main claim is that a musical work is a performance. The significance of this argument is twofold. First, it demonstrates the availability of an alternative, and ontologically tenable, view to well-established positions in the current debate on musical metaphysics. Second, it shows how the revisionary approach of Musical Stage Theory actually provides a better account of the ontological status of musi…Read more
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    Creative Agents: Rethinking Agency and Creativity in Human and Artificial Systems
    Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology 9 (2): 245-268. 2023.
    1. In the last decade, technological systems based on Artificial Intelligence (AI) architectures entered our lives at an increasingly fast pace. Virtual assistants facilitate our daily tasks, recom...
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    Everyone Can Change a Musical Work
    British Journal of Aesthetics 62 (1): 1-13. 2022.
    This paper explores how a new theory on the ontology of musical works, Musical Stage Theory, can address the problem of change in musical works. A natural consequence of the ontological framework of this theory is that musical works change intrinsically through a change in the sonic-structural properties of performances. From this a surprising consequence follows: everyone can change a musical work. Still, it seems that some changes matter more than others. The article offers a revisionary reply…Read more
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    An Ontological Justification for Contextual Authenticity
    British Journal of Aesthetics 59 (4): 413-427. 2019.
    In this paper I defend a contextualist interpretation of authenticity in musical performance: we judge a performance as authentic not in respect of a stable set of requirements but according to contextually determined factors. This solution is the natural outcome of an independently supported ontological account of musical works: Musical Stage Theory. The aim of the paper is to give new momentum to the debate concerning the notion of authenticity and to challenge a monistic interpretation of aut…Read more
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    Measuring creativity: an account of natural and artificial creativity
    European Journal for Philosophy of Science 11 (1): 1-20. 2020.
    Despite the recent upsurge of interest in the investigation of creativity, the question of how to measure creativity is arguably underdiscussed. The aim of this paper is to address this gap, proposing a multidimensional account of creativity which identifies problem-solving, evaluation, and naivety as measurable features that are common among creative processes. The benefits that result from the adoption of this model are twofold: integrating discussions on creativity in various domains and offe…Read more
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    The Assumptions behind Musical Stage Theory: A Reply to Letts
    Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 78 (3): 362-366. 2020.
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    Review of Musical Concerns: Essays in Philosophy of Music (review)
    American Society for Aesthetics Graduate E-Journal 8 (1). 2016.