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Departmental Seminar with Julian Dodd
Location: E0.21
Julian Dodd (Manchester): Types, continuants and the Ontology of Music
This paper argues that musical works are best construed as (fixed and unchanging) types, rather than as continuants. Defenders of the view of musical works as continuants claim that works of music are both temporally flexible (ie are susceptible to change through time) and modally flexible (ie could have been different). They then argue that only a conception of musical works as historical individuals can do justice to these facts. I respond by denying that musical works have this dual flexibility, and by suggesting that the 'continuants' view faces disabling difficulties of its own.
This paper argues that musical works are best construed as (fixed and unchanging) types, rather than as continuants. Defenders of the view of musical works as continuants claim that works of music are both temporally flexible (ie are susceptible to change through time) and modally flexible (ie could have been different). They then argue that only a conception of musical works as historical individuals can do justice to these facts. I respond by denying that musical works have this dual flexibility, and by suggesting that the 'continuants' view faces disabling difficulties of its own.
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