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22Forum on Jerrold Levinson, "Contemplating Art"Lebenswelt: Aesthetics and Philosophy of Experience 5 1-38. 2014.Jerrold Levinson’s Contemplating Art provides the readers with a variety of heterogeneous topics and issues. The discussants who took part in the Forum about Levinson’s book chose four different “tracks” dealt with, offering four different reflections. The main topics of the debate are: music, historicity, aesthetic properties and aesthetic contextualism. Starting on the fact that music is one of the main fields of Contamplating Art Alessandro Bertinetto focus his paper on the ‘musical’ chapters…Read more
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191Aesthetic concepts: essays after Sibley (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2001.Exploring key topics in contemporary aesthetics, this work analyzes the issues that arise from the unique works of Frank Sibley (1923-1996), who developed a distinctive aesthetic theory through a number of papers published between 1955 and 1995. Here, thirteen philosophical aestheticians bring Sibley's insight into a contemporary framework, exploring the ways his ideas foster important new discussion about issues in aesthetics. This collection will interest anyone interested in philosophy, art t…Read more
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3Die expressive Besonderheit des JazzZeitschrift für Ästhetik Und Allgemeine Kunstwissenschaft 59 (1): 93-103. 2014.In this essay I try to identify what is specific to jazz – or at least, mainstream or core jazz – from the point of view of its expression. Along the way I address the vexing question of the essence of jazz, and briefly explicate the concept of musical expression of emotion that I am working with. I next postulate a Gestalt of jazz, which I attempt to circumscribe both through its underlying musical characteristics and the use of paradigm examples, and suggest that such a Gestalt comports well w…Read more
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4Prolegomenon to a Morality of MusicIn Alessandro Arbo, Michel LeDu & Sabine Plaud (eds.), Wittgenstein and Aesthetics: Perspectives and Debates, De Gruyter. pp. 161-166. 2012.
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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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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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15Music 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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29An Ontology of Art, by Gregory Currie (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 52 (1): 215-222. 1992.
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21An Error Concerning NosesJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 75 (1): 9-13. 2017.We identify a strategy for getting beliefs from fiction via three assumptions: a certain causal generality holds in the fiction and does so because causal generalities in fiction are carried over from what the author takes to be fact; the author is reliable on this topic, so what the author takes to be fact is fact. We do not question. While will, in particular cases, be doubtful, the strategy is vulnerable more generally to the worry that what looks like a causal generality may be instead an au…Read more
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210The pleasures of aesthetics: philosophical essaysCornell University Press. 1996.What Is Aesthetic Pleasure? When is pleasure in an object properly denominated aesthetic? The characterization of aesthetic pleasure is something that ...
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15The 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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1Popular song as moral microcosm : life lessons from jazz standardsIn Anthony O'Hear (ed.), Philosophy and the Arts, Cambridge University Press. 2013.
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Paintings, photographs, titlesIn Damien Freeman & Derek Matravers (eds.), Figuring Out Figurative Art: Contemporary Philosophers on Contemporary Paintings, Acumen Publishing. 2014.
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7Music-Specific Emotion: An Elusive QuarryEstetika: The European Journal of Aesthetics 53 (2): 115. 2020.
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15Aesthetic 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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7Aesthetic 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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51Who's Afraid Of A Paraphrase?Theoria 67 (1): 7-23. 2001.I first show why Davidson was wrong to maintain that there is no such thing as metaphorical meaning, that which paraphrases strive to capture. I then sketch a conception of metaphors as utterances in contexts, and suggest how such utterances can acquire metaphorical meanings despite there being no semantic rules for the projection of such meanings. I next urge the essentiality of a metaphor's verbal formulation to its being the metaphor it is, and I conclude with some reflections on common and u…Read more
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218La créativitéIn Julien A. Deonna & Emma Tieffenbach (eds.), Petit traité des valeurs, Fondation Ernst Et Lucie Schmidheiny. 2018.La créativité est une valeur aujourd’hui abondamment conférée à des objets fort divers. Ainsi, bien qu’elle soit principalement discutée dans le domaine de l’art, on en parle souvent à propos des sciences, du sport, de l’entrepreneuriat, de la politique, de la pédagogie ou encore de situations plus ordinaires, telles que la créativité culinaire ou humoristique. En quoi ces diverses formes de créativité se ressemblent-elles ? Qu’est-ce qui fait leur valeur et en quoi se distinguent-elles de proch…Read more
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8The 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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6S. Levarie and E. Levy, Musical MorphologyJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 43 (2): 222-223. 1984.
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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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138The Aesthetics of MusicPhilosophical Review 109 (4): 608. 2000.As readers of this book will discover, from several disputes with me contained in its pages, Scruton and I are not in accord on a number of matters in the philosophy of music. Notwithstanding that, and more generally the fact that the book is controlled by a phenomenological-idealist perspective on music that I regard as fundamentally misplaced, in my estimation The Aesthetics of Music is the most valuable work to date on the subject of its title, one that addresses that subject in its full rang…Read more
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25Truth, Fiction, and Literature (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 57 (4): 964-968. 1997.
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86Narration in Light: Studies in Cinematic Point of ViewJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 47 (3): 290-292. 1989.