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- Title
Thinking Clearly About Music.
- Authors
Guerreiro, Vitor
- Abstract
In this article I argue against the arbitrariness of the concept of music and for an essentialist and naturalist framework, according to which music is a cross-cultural human phenomenon, defined by relational properties held together by uniform features of human nature. Building on Dickie's classification of theories of art in natural-kind theories and cultural-kind theories, I argue for an enhanced natural-kind theory (which explains the institutional element), and use some developments in social ontology to show the inadequacy of an institutionalist approach to art and music.
- Subjects
MUSICAL aesthetics; ESSENTIALISM (Philosophy); EXPRESSION (Philosophy); MUSICAL perception; THEORY (Philosophy); ONTOLOGY
- Publication
Teorema, 2012, Vol 31, Issue 3, p25
- ISSN
0210-1602
- Publication type
Article