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On the sensorial of imaginationIn Sensorial aesthetics in music practices, Leuven University Press. 2019.
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On the sensorial of the human body in performanceIn Sensorial aesthetics in music practices, Leuven University Press. 2019.
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On the sensorial of human beingsIn Sensorial aesthetics in music practices, Leuven University Press. 2019.
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On the sensorial of music and breathingIn Sensorial aesthetics in music practices, Leuven University Press. 2019.
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On the sensorial of aestheticsIn Sensorial aesthetics in music practices, Leuven University Press. 2019.
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8Sensorial aesthetics in music practices (edited book)Leuven University Press. 2019.The Western history of aesthetics is characterised by tension between theory and practice. Musicians listen, play, and then listen more profoundly in order to play differently, adapt the body, and sense the environment. They become deeply involved in the sensorial qualities of music practice. Artistic practice refers to the original meaning of aesthetics - the senses. Whereas Baumgarten and Goethe explored the relationship between sensibility and reason, sensation and thinking, later philosopher…Read more
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5We’re Only in It for the Money : The Financial Structure of STEM and STEAM ResearchIn Paul Smeyers & Marc Depaepe (eds.), Educational Research: Ethics, Social Justice, and Funding Dynamics, Springer Verlag. pp. 261-274. 2018.The development of the philosophy of science in the twentieth century has created a framework where issues concerning funding dynamics can be easily accommodated. It combines the historical-philosophical approach of Thomas Kuhn. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, [1962] ) with the sociological approach of Robert K. Merton The sociology of science. Theoretical and empirical investigations. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, pp 267–278, [1942] ), linking the ‘exact’ sciences to econo…Read more
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8The Interplay of Psychology and Mathematics Education: From the Attraction of Psychology to the Discovery of the SocialJournal of Philosophy of Education 46 (3): 370-385. 2012.It is a rather safe statement to claim that the social dimensions of the scientific process are accepted in a fair share of studies in the philosophy of science. It is a somewhat safe statement to claim that the social dimensions are now seen as an essential element in the understanding of what human cognition is and how it functions. But it would be a rather unsafe statement to claim that the social is fully accepted in the philosophy of mathematics. And we are not quite sure what kind of state…Read more
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4The Interplay of Psychology and Mathematics Education: From the Attraction of Psychology to the Discovery of the SocialJournal of Philosophy of Education 46 (3): 370-385. 2012.It is a rather safe statement to claim that the social dimensions of the scientific process are accepted in a fair share of studies in the philosophy of science. It is a somewhat safe statement to claim that the social dimensions are now seen as an essential element in the understanding of what human cognition is and how it functions. But it would be a rather unsafe statement to claim that the social is fully accepted in the philosophy of mathematics. And we are not quite sure what kind of state…Read more
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10Regulating Academic Pressure: From Fast to SlowJournal of Philosophy of Education 54 (5): 1419-1442. 2020.Journal of Philosophy of Education, EarlyView.
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7Math and Music: Slow and Not For ProfitIn Paul Smeyers & Marc Depaepe (eds.), Educational Research: Ethics, Social Justice, and Funding Dynamics, Springer Verlag. pp. 73-90. 2018.This chapter looks at the impact of recent societal approaches of knowledge and science from the perspectives of two rather distant educational domains, mathematics and music. Science’s attempt at ‘self-understanding’ has led to a set of control mechanisms, either generating ‘closure’—the scientists’ non-involvement in society—or ‘economisation’, producing patents and other lucrative benefits. While scientometrics became the tool and the rule for measuring the economic impact of science, counter…Read more
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6Experimental encounters in music and beyond (edited book)Leuven University Press. 2017.Experimental encounters in music and beyond opens a necessary dialogue on experimental practices in the arts and negotiates their place in contemporary society. Going beyond the music-historical usage of the term "experimental", this book reimagines experimentation as an open working definition encompassing multiple forms of artistic attitudes and processes. The texts, images, and sounds offer multiple traces, faces, and spaces, revealing what experimentalism in music and the wider arts entails …Read more
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Part four, Negotiating experimental(ly) spaces and faces / Kathleen Coessens. From experimentation to construction / Richard Barrett. Exper-iment, exper-ience, exper-tise : practice-as-research in jazz performance / Steve Tromans. Improvisation as experimentation in everyday life and beyond / Anne Douglas and Kathleen Coessens. Composition as improvisation/Improvisation as composition / David Horne and Melinda Maxwell. The Kunstorchester Kwaggawerk Project : an original cultural education programme / Reto Stadelmann. An afterthought to experimental encounters (review)In Experimental encounters in music and beyond, Leuven University Press. 2017.
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Faces, spaces, and Ttaces : a prelude to experimental encountersIn Experimental encounters in music and beyond, Leuven University Press. 2017.
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6Multiple tensions in Music's Semiotic Eigenbehavior (review)Constructivist Foundations 12 (3): 359-361. 2017.From actual musical practices, I discuss how music thought and music experience both can and cannot be explained by the semiotic eigencycle.
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8In this chapter we analyse two interrelated projects across the fields of visual art and music, philosophy and anthropology. Calendar Variations is a visual activity initiated by Anne Douglas, visual artist and researcher. A Day in My Life mirrors this activity in music and is developed by Kathleen Coessens, pianist and philosopher. The two projects are research driven and frame questions about the relationship of improvisation to experiential knowledge. First, what might experimentation be in t…Read more
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5Eduquer (à) l’anarchie [Educating (Toward) Anarchy] (review)Process Studies 39 (2): 366-369. 2010.
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2Sensory FluidityEssays in Philosophy 13 (2): 453-470. 2012.How do artists share, translate, reveal their imagination by using different semiotic systems; how can the audience partake in this imagination receiving only images, words, notation, sounds? Starting from artwork of the novelist Italo Calvino and the composers Helmut Lachenmann and Gyorgy Kurtag, this article addresses the relation among imagination, perception, remembrance and expression. The ‘images’ used, be they visual, verbal, auditory or haptic, are much more than images. They concentrate…Read more
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7Eduquer (à) l’anarchie [Educating (Toward) Anarchy] (review)Process Studies 39 (2): 366-369. 2010.
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Areas of Interest
Aesthetics |
Philosophy of Cognitive Science |
General Philosophy of Science |