VOLUME 5(1) • 2006
MUSICAL PRACTICE AND CREATIVITY
ABSTRACT. Stravinsky sees himself as fully separated from the past, studying it not to continue it but to borrow from it piecemeal for his own purposes. A musical style is a body of musical products that share certain auditory features in common (Elliott). Schönberg views atonal composition as an in..
FOUCAULT, ARCHAEOLOGY OF KNOWLEDGE, AND AESTHETICS OF EXISTENCE
ABSTRACT. Foucault sketches three kinds of human relationships and links each to a prominent ethical school in the Greco-Roman world. Foucault is concerned with forging a new approach to historical analysis but not with the meta-question of how to understand and justify this approach philosophically..
REPRESENTATION AND REALITY IN KANT
ABSTRACT. Kant's apperceptive relation of representations to the identity of the subject is the representationalist equivalent of the idea of the "unity of the proposition". Kant identifies the a priori as his primary concern in the Critiques, and seems in general unconcerned by skepticism about emp..
LOGIC AND TRUTH IN FREGE
ABSTRACT. For Frege, facts are simply true thoughts, and their role in the service of a correspondence theory as grounders of truth is rejected. One cannot require that everything shall be defined, any more than one can require that a chemist shall decompose every substance. The question why and wit..
SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE METAPHYSICAL SUBJECT
ABSTRACT. Krishna remarks that man's consciousness itself will be seen as infected with a logical ambiguity rendering it ontologically unintelligible, if "reality" and "truth" are conceived in traditional terms. Kekes rejects the coherence model which posits the self as creating a coherent image of ..
WITTGENSTEIN: MEANING AND INTERPRETATION
ABSTRACT. Wittgenstein moves away from depictions of our relation of the world as one of confinement, rejecting the idea that we must get over to the world from a purely subjective starting point. Wittgenstein observes that it makes no sense, with appropriate explanation, to speak of the component s..
COLLINGWOOD'S HISTORICAL HERMENEUTICS
ABSTRACT. Collingwood views the world of natural science in terms of the search for generalizations and causal explanations, but take history to be concerned with particulars rather than universals. Collingwood attempted to integrate and understand human experience and knowledge, and to bring togeth..
MUSIC'S SELF-REFERENCING ARCHITECTURE
ABSTRACT. Although causation may be an inappropriate concept to use in describing the influence that one musical event is perceived to have on another, the notion of implication is intuitively apposite. Viadana argues that confronted with the text of a piece of music, the performer will engage in a ..
MONTHERLANT, SARTRE, AND THE DECONSTRUCTION OF THE SUBJECT
ABSTRACT. According to Montherlant and Sartre, the character trait terms that we use to describe ourselves and other people should not be understood to designate properties that determine behaviour in given situations. A person's essence includes character traits incline that person towards certain ..
THE TRANSHUMANIST FAQ
ABSTRACT. Transhumanism is entering the mainstream culture today, as increasing numbers of scientists, scientifically literate philosophers, and social thinkers are beginning to take seriously the range of possibilities that transhumanism encompasses. The Transhumanist FAQ was conceived as an attemp..
THE INDIVIDUALITY OF MEANING
ABSTRACT. Descriptions have been the object of attention of many philosophers. The goal of this article is to inquire into the meaning of those descriptions which, due to the peculiar character of the objects of description, have been interpreted in different ways, and to investigate in which sense ..
EXISTA INCA UN SENS IN CARE MATEMATICA POATE AVEA FUNDAMENTE? (I)
ABSTRACT. An analysis of traditional mathematical proof is undertaken, with an implicit contrast to formal derivations. The semantic interpretation of mathematical terms plays a role in the former that doesn't appear in the latter. This semantic interpretation - with an accompanying role for intuiti..