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Musical perceptionIn Mohan Matthen (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Perception, Oxford University Press Uk. 2015.
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14Agency, Luck, and TragedyPhilosophy and Literature 46 (1): 68-85. 2022.Abstract:The term "tragedy" is widely misused in common parlance to designate any disastrous occurrence of great magnitude. If this practice is to be resisted and reformed, an alternative account of real-life tragedy must be sustained. I attempt to offer one that is grounded in the connections between agency and luck. More specifically, I argue that in a universe lacking any supernatural power of fate, real-life tragedy occurs when the exercise of agency results, through a confluence of constitu…Read more
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11Another Look at Functionalism and the EmotionsBrain and Mind 4 (3): 353-383. 2003.Two chronic problems have plagued functionalism in the philosophy of mind. The first is the chauvinism/liberalism dilemma, the second the absent qualia problem. The first problem is addressed by blocking excessively liberal counterexamples at a level of functional abstraction that is high enough to avoid chauvinism. This argument introduces the notion of emotional functional organization. The second problem is addressed by granting Block's skeptical conclusions with respect to mentality as such,…Read more
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32The Musical Representation: Meaning, Ontology, and EmotionBradford. 2007.How human musical experience emerges from the audition of organized tones is a riddle of long standing. In "The Musical Representation," Charles Nussbaum offers a philosophical naturalist's solution.
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36Syntax, Semantics, and Pragmatics in Kant’s SchematismProceedings of the Eighth International Kant Congress 2 321-330. 1995.
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22The Musical Representation: Meaning, Ontology, and EmotionBradford. 2012.How human musical experience emerges from the audition of organized tones is a riddle of long standing. In _The Musical Representation_, Charles Nussbaum offers a philosophical naturalist's solution. Nussbaum founds his naturalistic theory of musical representation on the collusion between the physics of sound and the organization of the human mind-brain. He argues that important varieties of experience afforded by Western tonal art music since 1650 arise through the feeling of tone, the sense o…Read more
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77Troubles with the causal homeostasis theory of referencePhilosophical Psychology 14 (2). 2001.While purely causal theories of reference have provided a plausible account of the meanings of names and natural kind terms, they cannot handle vacuous theoretical terms. The causal homeostasis theory can but incurs other difficulties. Theories of reference that are intensional and not purely causal tend to be molecularist or holist. Holist theories threaten transtheoretic reference, whereas molecularist theories must supply a principled basis for selecting privileged meaning-determining relatio…Read more
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15Reply to BuddEstetika: The European Journal of Aesthetics 52 (2): 190-202. 2015.Charles Nussbaum´s reply to Malcom Budd´s review essay on Nussbaum´s book, The Musical Representation
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17The Birth of Cadential-Harmonic Music from the Spirit of Modern IdealismIdealistic Studies 25 (1): 69-91. 1995.Musicians sometimes shake their heads in wonderment at the remarkable incidence of musical creativity that occurred in Germany and Austria between the years 1750 and 1900. One after another, a series of musical giants arose in rapid succession, each unique, and each exemplifying human artistic genius of the highest possible order. That the German-speaking world dominated music composition during this period is scarcely open to question. But it was not always this way. In the seventeenth century,…Read more
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2The Manifold of Intuition and the Form-Matter Distinction in Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason"Dissertation, Emory University. 1988.Kant is the last classical practitioner of foundationalist epistemology in the Cartesian tradition, a tradition which saw the major problem of the theory of knowledge as one of providing a metaphysical account of the way in which the subjective contents of the individual mind come to have indubitable objective reference. But he is also the inaugurator of a very different approach to epistemology, one that sees methodology or rules of cognitive procedure as fundamental in determining the objectiv…Read more
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11Kant’s Changing Conception of the Causality of the WillInternational Philosophical Quarterly 36 (3): 265-286. 1996.
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10Dretske on IntrospectionDialogue 38 (2): 327-334. 1999.RésuméDans son ouvrage de 1995, Naturalizing the Mind, Dretske propose une analyse de l'introspection qui s'appuie sur la notion de perception déplacée. Tout comme Dretske perçoit qu'il pèse 170 livres en percevant la lecture indiquée sur sa balance, il perçoit qu'il se représente un objet bleu en percevant cet objet bleu. Dans les deux cas, le sujet percevant procède à partir d'un «fait intermédiare» à l'inférence d'un «fait cible» déplacé. Le présent article dévoile une confusion au sujet des …Read more
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106Habermas and Gruenbaum on the logic of psychoanalytic explanationsPhilosophy and Social Criticism 17 (3): 193-216. 1991.
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50Concepts, judgments, and unity in Kant's metaphysical deduction of the relational categoriesJournal of the History of Philosophy 28 (1): 89. 1990.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Concepts, Judgments, and Unity in Kant's Metaphysical Deduction of the Relational Categories CHARLES NUSSBAUM 1. INTRODUCTION TO ANY ATTENTIVEREADERof the section of the Critique of Pure Reason' known as the "Metaphysical Deduction of the Categories" (A67/B92-A83/B to9), one paragraph in that section stands out particularly by virtue of its special importance for Kant's developing argument: The same function Which gives unity to the …Read more
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28Dretske on IntrospectionDialogue 38 (2): 327-. 1999.RÉSUMÉ: Dans son ouvrage de 1995, Naturalizing the Mind, Dretske propose une analyse de l’introspection qui s’appuie sur la notion de perception déplacée. Tout comme Dretske perçoit qu’il pèse 170 livres en percevant la lecture indiquée sur sa balance, il perçoit qu’il se représente un objet bleu en percevant cet objet bleu. Dans les deux cas, le sujet percevant procède à partir d’un «fait intermédiaire» à l’inférence d’un «fait cible» déplacé. Le présent article dévoile une confusion au sujet d…Read more
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15Cartesian Influences in Kant’s Conception of the Matier of the Manifold of PerceptionSouthwest Philosophy Review 9 (2): 1-28. 1993.
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10Craning the Ultimate SkyhookIn Dan Ryder, Justine Kingsbury & Kenneth Williford (eds.), Millikan and her critics, Wiley. 2013.This chapter contains section titles: Introduction and Conspectus: Naturalizing the Logical Modalities The Law of Noncontradiction and Possible Worlds Craning Noncontradiction Natural Necessity and Metaphysical Necessity in Millikan's Philosophy The Son, the Daughter, and the Mighty Dead: Debunking the Myth of the Logical Given23.
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59Critical and Pre-Critical Phases in Kant’s Philosophy of LogicKant Studien 83 (3): 280-293. 1992.The transition in Kant's writings form a pre-critical to a critical standpoint has been thoroughly documented with regard to Kant's changing conception of metaphysics, theory of knowledge, and philosophy of mathematics. But a similar alteration in standpoint in Kant's philosophy of logic has received little or no attention. This paper documents the existence of this shift in Kant's philosophy of logic and examines its nature. The resulting analysis provides evidence for the thesis that Kant bega…Read more
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45Aesthetics and the Problem of EvilMetaphilosophy 34 (3): 250-283. 2003.Abstract:Much of Western speculative metaphysics has subscribed to what has been called “explanatory rationalism,” which holds that there is a reason for everything that is and for the way everything is. Theodicies, or metaphysical attempts to solve the problem of evil, have relied on a special application of this principle of explanatory rationalism, namely, the principle of plenitude, which holds that the evil in the world is a necessary ingredient in the world's overall perfection or degree o…Read more
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