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David Davies examines the ontology of multiple artworks, such as books and musical performances. He argues against a theory of multiple works as 'types' that are independent of creative and appreciative acts, instead defending a view on which they are performances essentially embedded in artistic practices.
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-ontological Postscript -- 6. Further Explananda: Flexibility and Variability -- 6.1 Berthold and Magda Debate the Modal and Temporal Flexibility of Artworks -- 6.2 Rohrbaugh's Challenge to Platonist Views of Multiple Artworks
6.3 Problems for Platonist Theories of Multiples Initiated via a Production Artefact -- 6.4 Enigmatic Variations: Variability as an Explanandum -- 6.4.1 The Problem of Variability Clarified -- 6.4.2 Musical Platonism, the Problem of Variability, and the Pragmatic Theory of Norms -- 6.5 A Few Words about Literary Artworks -- 7. The Nine Explananda Revisited -- 7.1 Repeatability -- 7.2 The Possibility of Unexemplified Works -- 7.3 Perceivability -- 7.4 Creatability -- 7.5 'Fine Individuation' and Contextualism -- 7.6 Instrumentalism -- 7.7 Modal Flexibility -- 7.8 Temporal Flexibility
Includes bibliographical references and index.
multiple artwork, ontology, Platonism, artistic practice, contextualism, Wollheimian type, explananda, pragmatic constraint
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2024