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    Descriptive Formalism and Evaluative Formalism in Kant’s Theory of Music: A Response to Young
    Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 81 (3): 378-382. 2023.
    In his article “Kant’s Musical Antiformalism” (Young 2020), with additional clarifications (Young 2021),1 James O. Young argues that Kant is an “antiformalist.”
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    Was Hanslick a Closet Schopenhauerian?
    British Journal of Aesthetics 57 (2): 211-229. 2017.
    A common tendency throughout the history of thought concerning the nature of music has been to attribute to it a peculiar power to represent the dynamic of the universe. The tradition has perhaps its most developed expression in the philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer. The strict formalism present in Eduard Hanslick’s treatise, On the Musically Beautiful, clearly stands in stark opposition to such ways of thinking. And yet the book’s final paragraph ends with a paragraph in which music is referred…Read more
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    The role of the performer in Hanslick’s On the Musically Beautiful
    British Journal of Aesthetics. forthcoming.
    In his On the Musically Beautiful, Hanslick vigorously argued that musical beauty depends neither on the representation nor on the evocation of feelings. However, despite his formalism, Hanslick regards the performance of a musical work as a moment of emotional release. Given the tension between the formalist nature of Hanslick’s general theory and this expressionist drift in his conception of the performer, in this article I pursue two objectives: 1) to argue that there is, in fact, an importan…Read more
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    Influence of Tactical and Situational Variables on Offensive Sequences During Elite European Handball Matches
    with Willian Ferrari, Hugo Sarmento, Adilson Marques, Gonçalo Dias, Pedro Antonio Sánchez-Miguel, José Gama, and Vasco Vaz
    Frontiers in Psychology 13. 2022.
    The main objective of this study was to analyze the influence of tactical and situational variables on offensive sequences during elite European handball matches. A sample of 55 games and 5.857 offensive sequences from the European Handball Federation Champions League, the selected teams were classified as the top eight teams in the league, were analyzed using X2 and logistic regression analyses. Results indicated that positional attacks [odds ratio = 0.34; 95% CI: 0.28–0.42; p < 0.001] and fast…Read more
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    Networks metrics and ball possession in professional football
    with José Gama, Gonçalo Dias, Micael Couceiro, and Vasco Vaz
    Complexity 21 (S2): 342-354. 2016.
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    Comparative Analysis of the Offensive Effectiveness in Winner and Losing Handball Teams
    with Willian Ferrari, Gonçalo Dias, Hugo Sarmento, and Vasco Vaz
    Frontiers in Psychology 11. 2020.