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Appropriation and hybridityIn Theodore Gracyk & Andrew Kania (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Music, Routledge. 2011.
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Catharine Trotter Cockburn on Moral KnowledgeJournal of the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists 2 (1–2). 2023.In the wake of Locke’s Essay, empiricists faced the challenge of giving an empiricist account of the origins of moral knowledge. Locke did not rise to this challenge and relied on revelation as the source of moral knowledge. Other empiricists, including Hume and Hutcheson, opted for either emotivism or subjectivism. Clarke and others opted for rationalism and non-naturalism. In contrast, Catharine Cockburn’s meta-ethics combined Locke’s empiricism with naturalism. She held that moral good is nat…Read more
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205Cultural Appropriation and the ArtsWiley-Blackwell. 2008.Now, for the first time, a philosopher undertakes a systematic investigation of the moral and aesthetic issues to which cultural appropriation gives rise. Cultural appropriation is a pervasive feature of the contemporary world Young offers the first systematic philosophical investigation of the moral and aesthetic issues to which cultural appropriation gives rise Tackles head on the thorny issues arising from the clash and integration of cultures and their artifacts Questions considered include:…Read more
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11Profound Offence and Cultural AppropriationIn Cultural Appropriation and the Arts, Blackwell. 2008.This chapter contains section titled: Harm, Offence, and Profound Offence Examples of Offensive Cultural Appropriation The Problem and the Key to its Solution Social Value and Offensive Art Freedom of Expression The Sacred and the Offensive Time and Place Restrictions Toleration of Offensive Art Reasonable and Unreasonable Offence.
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21Cultural Appropriation as AssaultIn Cultural Appropriation and the Arts, Blackwell. 2008.This chapter contains section titled: Other Forms of Harm Cultural Appropriation and Harmful Misrepresentation Harm and Accurate Representation Cultural Appropriation and Economic Opportunity Cultural Appropriation and Assimilation Art, Insignia, and Cultural Identity Cultural Appropriation and Privacy.
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9The Aesthetics of Cultural AppropriationIn Cultural Appropriation and the Arts, Blackwell. 2008.This chapter contains section titled: The Aesthetic Handicap Thesis The Cultural Experience Argument Aesthetic Properties and Cultural Context Authenticity and Appropriation Authentic Appropriation Cultural Experience and Subject Appropriation Appropriation and the Authentic Expression of a Culture.
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10Cultural Appropriation as TheftIn Cultural Appropriation and the Arts, Blackwell. 2008.This chapter contains section titled: Harm by Theft Possible Owners of Artworks Cultures and Inheritance Lost and Abandoned Property Cultural Property and Traditional Law Collective Knowledge and Collective Property Ownership of Land and Ownership of Art Property and Value to a Culture Cultures and Intellectual Property Some Conclusions About Ownership and Appropriation The Rescue Argument.
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17What is Cultural Appropriation?In Cultural Appropriation and the Arts, Blackwell. 2008.This chapter contains section titled: Art, Culture, and Appropriation Types of Cultural Appropriation What is a Culture? Objections to Cultural Appropriation In Praise of Cultural Appropriation.
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FrontmatterIn Cultural Appropriation and the Arts, Blackwell. 2008.The prelims comprise: Half Title Title Copyright Contents Preface.
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27‘The Skin off Our Backs’: Appropriation of ReligionIn James O. Young & Conrad G. Brunk (eds.), The Ethics of Cultural Appropriation, Wiley‐blackwell. 2009.This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction Appropriation and the Distortion of Cultures Appropriation as Theft Offensive Appropriation of Religion Summary References.
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16Global Anti-Realism: A Metaphilosophical Inquiry Andrew Joseph Cortens Boulder, CO: Westview, 2000, x + 174 pp., $59.00 (review)Dialogue 40 (4): 814-. 2001.
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75Cultures and cultural propertyJournal of Applied Philosophy 24 (2). 2007.abstract In a number of contexts one comes across the suggestion that cultures are collective owners of cultural property, such as particularly significant works of art. Indigenous peoples are often held to be collective owners of cultural property, but they are not the only ones. Icelandic culture is said to have a claim on the Flatejarbók and Greek culture is held to own the Parthenon Marbles. In this paper I investigate the conditions under which a culture is the rightful owner of cultural pr…Read more
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153The ontology of musical works: A philosophical pseudo-problemFrontiers of Philosophy in China 6 (2): 284-297. 2011.A bewildering array of accounts of the ontology of musical works is available. Philosophers have held that works of music are sets of performances, abstract, eternal sound-event types, initiated types, compositional action types, compositional action tokens, ideas in a composer’s mind and continuants that perdure. This paper maintains that questions in the ontology of music are, in Rudolf Carnap’s sense of the term, pseudo-problems. That is, there is no alethic basis for choosing between rival m…Read more
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355A Defence of the Coherence Theory of TruthJournal of Philosophical Research 26 (1): 89--101. 2001.Recent critics of the coherence theory of truth (notably Ralph Walker) have alleged that the theory is incoherent, since its defence presupposes the correctness of the contrary correspondence theory of truth. Coherentists must specify the system of propositions with which true propositons cohere (the specified system). Generally, coherentists claim that the specified system is a system composed of propositions believed by a community. Critics of coherentism maintain that the coherentist’s assert…Read more
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23Kant’s (Moderate) Musical Antiformalism: A Reply to SousaJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 81 (3): 383-386. 2023.I thank Tiago Sousa for his thoughtful comments on Young (2020, 2021). I am grateful for the opportunity to revisit Kant’s thoughts on music, which I think I un.
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Schopenhauer's Critique of Kantian EthicsSociété Française de Philosophie, Bulletin 75 (2): 191. 1984.
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1Julian Dodd, Works of Music: An Essay in Ontology (review)Philosophy in Review 28 (3): 184-187. 2008.
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3Dominic McIver Lopes, Sight and Sensibility: Evaluating Pictures (review)Philosophy in Review 26 (4): 270-272. 2006.
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23Assessing the Ethos Theory of MusicDisputatio 13 (62): 283-297. 2021.The view that music can have a positive or negative effect on a person’s character has been defended throughout the history of philosophy. This paper traces some of the history of the ethos theory and identifies a version of the theory that could be true. This version of the theory can be traced to Plato and Aristotle and was given a clear statement by Herbert Spencer in the nineteenth century. The paper then examines some of the empirical literature on how music can affect dispositions to behav…Read more
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31Philosophy of Music: A HistoryBritish Journal of Aesthetics 63 (1): 136-138. 2022.A good, single volume history of the philosophy of music would be nice to have, but I do not think that the book under review here is it. (Full disclosure: I am.
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19A History of Western Philosophy of MusicCambridge University Press. 2023.This book presents a comprehensive, accessible survey of Western philosophy of music from Pythagoras to the present. Its narrative traces themes and schools through history, in a sequence of five chapters that survey the ancient, medieval, early modern, modern and contemporary periods. Its wide-ranging coverage includes medieval Islamic thinkers, Continental and analytic thinkers, and neglected female thinkers such as Vernon Lee (Violet Paget). All aspects of the philosophy of music are discusse…Read more
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17Radically Rethinking Copyright in the Arts: A Philosophical ApproachRoutledge. 2020.The problems and the keys to their solutions -- Ontology of artworks -- Copyright and its limits -- Token appropriation -- Pattern appropriation -- Appropriation of artistic elements.
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20On Carolyn Korsmeyer, Things: in touch with the past Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2019, pp. 224Studi di Estetica 19. 2021.
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67New Objections to Cultural Appropriation in the ArtsBritish Journal of Aesthetics 61 (3): 307-316. 2021.Some writers have objected to cultural appropriation in the arts on the grounds that it violates cultures’ property rights. Recently a paper by Erich Matthes and another by C. Thi Nguyen and Matthew Strohl have argued that cultural appropriation does not violate property rights but that it is nevertheless often objectionable. Matthes argues that cultural appropriation contributes to the oppression of disadvantaged cultures. Nguyen and Strohl argue that it violated the intimacy of cultures. This …Read more
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