Art and Abstract Objects presents a lively philosophical exchange between the philosophy of art and core areas of philosophy. A team of contributors examine the ontological nature of repeatable artworks--such as plays, novels, and films--as abstract objects, which are immaterial, causally inert, and outside space-time.
Art and Abstract Objects presents a lively philosophical exchange between the philosophy of art and core areas of philosophy. A team of contributors examine the ontological nature of repeatable artworks--such as plays, novels, and films--as abstract objects, which are immaterial, causally inert, and outside space-time.
Christy Mag Uidhir is an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Houston. His main area of research is the philosophy of art. He has published articles in such journals as Philosophers' Imprint, Philosophical Studies, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, American Philosophical Quarterly, The British Journal of Aesthetics, and The Journal of Aesthetics & Art Criticism. He is currently at work on an original monograph, tentatively titled The Attempt Theory of Art (under contract with Oxford University Press).
Inhaltsangabe
* List of Contributors * Acknowledgements * Introduction: Art, Metaphysics, and The Paradox of Standards * General Ontological Issues * 1: Guy Rohrbaugh: Must Ontological Pragmatism Be Self-Defeating? * 2: Jerrold Levinson: Indication, Abstraction, and Individuation * 3: Marcus Rossberg: Destroying Artworks * Informative Comparisons * 4: Roy T. Cook: Art, Open-Endedness, and Indefinite Extensibility * 5: P.D. Magnus: Historical Individuals Like Anas platyrhynchos and 'Classical Gas' * 6: Shieva Kleinschmidt and Jacob Ross: Repeatable Artwork Sentences and Generics * Arguments Against and Alternatives To * 7: Allan Hazlett: Against Repeatable Artworks * 8: Ross Cameron: How to be a Nominalist and a Fictional Realist * 9: Andrew Kania: Platonism vs. Nominalism in Contemporary Musical Ontology * Abstracta Across the Arts * 10: Hud Hudson: Reflections on the Metaphysics of Sculpture * 11: Sherri Irvin: Installation Art and Performance: A Shared Ontology * 12: David Davies: What Type of 'Type' is a Film? * 13: Joseph Moore: Musical Works: A Mash-Up * Index
* List of Contributors * Acknowledgements * Introduction: Art, Metaphysics, and The Paradox of Standards * General Ontological Issues * 1: Guy Rohrbaugh: Must Ontological Pragmatism Be Self-Defeating? * 2: Jerrold Levinson: Indication, Abstraction, and Individuation * 3: Marcus Rossberg: Destroying Artworks * Informative Comparisons * 4: Roy T. Cook: Art, Open-Endedness, and Indefinite Extensibility * 5: P.D. Magnus: Historical Individuals Like Anas platyrhynchos and 'Classical Gas' * 6: Shieva Kleinschmidt and Jacob Ross: Repeatable Artwork Sentences and Generics * Arguments Against and Alternatives To * 7: Allan Hazlett: Against Repeatable Artworks * 8: Ross Cameron: How to be a Nominalist and a Fictional Realist * 9: Andrew Kania: Platonism vs. Nominalism in Contemporary Musical Ontology * Abstracta Across the Arts * 10: Hud Hudson: Reflections on the Metaphysics of Sculpture * 11: Sherri Irvin: Installation Art and Performance: A Shared Ontology * 12: David Davies: What Type of 'Type' is a Film? * 13: Joseph Moore: Musical Works: A Mash-Up * Index
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