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Cover -- An Ontology Of Multiple Artworks -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- I.1 Berthold And Magda Talk About Art -- I.2 Some Preliminary Methodological Reflections -- I.3 Nine Explananda In Search Of An Explanans -- 1. What Is A Multiple Artwork? -- 1.1 Multiple Instances And Multiple 'instances' -- 1.2 Currie's 'instance Multiplicity Hypothesis' -- 1.3 Challenges To The Imh -- 1.3.1 Levinson -- 1.3.2 Carroll -- 1.4 Conclusion -- 2. Multiple Artworks As Abstract Entities: An Introductory Overview 2.1 The Origins Of Contemporary 'type' Theories Of Multiple Artworks -- 2.1.1 Richard Wollheim On Multiple Artworks As 'types' -- 2.1.2 Nicholas Wolterstorff On Multiple Works As 'norm-kinds' -- 2.2 Julian Dodd's 'simple View' -- 2.2.1 Types Are Abstract Entities -- 2.2.3 Types Are Modally And Temporally Inflexible -- 2.2.4 Types Are Eternal Existents -- 3. Two Explananda For A Theory Of Multiples: Perceivability And Creatability -- 3.1 The Audibility Of Musical Works -- 3.2 The Creatability Of Multiples -- 4. Two Further Explananda: Fine Individuation And Performance Means 4.1 Contextualist Views Of Art -- 4.2 Levinson's Contextualist Explanandum For The Ontology Of Musical Works: 'fine Individuation' -- 4.3 Levinson's Third Explanandum For Musical Ontology: 'performance Means' -- 4.4 Dodd On Contextualism And Instrumentalism As Explananda For Musical Ontology -- 5. Methodological Interlude: The Primacy Of Practice In The Ontology Of Art -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 The Dialectical Structure Of Works Of Music And The 'pragmatic Constraint' -- 5.2.1 The Appeal To 'mature Philosophical Theory' In Dodd's Arguments 5.2.2 Equivocation On The Concepts Of 'aesthetic Worth' And 'worth As Music' -- 5.3 Individuating Works, Identifying Instances Of Works, And The 'appreciation Constraint' -- 5.4 Dodd's 'meta-ontological' Argument -- 5.5 The Place Of Artistic Practice In The Ontology Of Art: The 'pragmatic Constraint' Revisited -- 5.6 Meta-onto
This work investigates the ontological status of multiple artworks, specifically questioning how entities like musical compositions or prints can exist as singular works while manifesting in multiple physical or auditory instances. David R. Davies, a philosopher specializing in aesthetics, evaluates existing type-theory frameworks to determine if they adequately account for the perceivability and creatability of these works. He argues that current theories often fail to reconcile the abstract nature of artworks with the practical realities of artistic creation and performance.
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Scholars in the field of aesthetics recognize this text as a rigorous contribution to the ongoing debate regarding the ontological classification of art. Readers frequently note the high level of academic density and the author's precise engagement with contemporary analytic philosophy.
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Publication Date:
2024-01-01
Publisher:
New York : Oxford University Press,
ISBN-10:
0191944130
ISBN-13:
9780191944130
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