James O Young

Biographic Data

ID1108228
NAMEJames O Young
GIVEN NAMESJames
FAMILY NAMEO Young
SIGNATUREYOUNG J O
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Victoria
ORCID0000-0002-6801-9985
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS31
TOTAL CITATIONS14
AUTHOR COUNT28
EDITOR COUNT3
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1974
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX2

  • The Myth of the Aesthetic

    Open AccessJames O YoungARTICLEErkenntnis2025

  • A History of Western Philosophy of Music

    Open AccessJames O YoungBOOKHistory of Western Philosophy of…2023

    This book presents a comprehensive, accessible survey of Western philosophy of music from Pythagoras to the present. Its narrative traces themes and schools through history, in a sequence of five chapters that survey the ancient, medieval, early modern, modern and contemporary periods. Its wide-ranging coverage includes medieval Islamic thinkers, Continental and analytic thinkers, and neglected female thinkers such as Vernon Lee (Violet Paget). A…

  • History of Western Philosophy of Music

    James O YoungBOOKHistory of Western Philosophy of…2023

  • New Objections to Cultural Appropriation in the Arts

    Open AccessJames O YoungARTICLEThe British Journal of Aesthetics2021

    Some writers have objected to cultural appropriation in the arts on the grounds that it violates cultures’ property rights. Recently a paper by Erich Matthes and another by C. Thi Nguyen and Matthew Strohl have argued that cultural appropriation does not violate property rights but that it is nevertheless often objectionable. Matthes argues that cultural appropriation contributes to the oppression of disadvantaged cultures. Nguyen and Strohl argu…

  • Philosophy of Music: A History

    Open AccessJames O YoungARTICLEThe British Journal of Aesthetics2021

    A good, single volume history of the philosophy of music would be nice to have, but I do not think that the book under review here is it. (Full disclosure: I am currently in the process of writing a history of the philosophy of music.) For a start, at 169 pages including bibliography and index, it is simply too short to do justice to 2500 years of philosophy of music. Too many important figures are completely missing from Martinelli’s volume. Man…

  • Jean-Baptiste Du Bos’ Critical Reflections on Poetry and Painting and Hume’s Treatise

    Open AccessJames O Young, Margaret CameronARTICLEThe British Journal of Aesthetics2018

    It has long been known that Jean-Baptiste Du Bos (and, in particular, his book Critical Reflections on Poetry and Painting) exercised a considerable influence on Hume’s essays and, in particular, on the ‘Of the Standard of Taste’ and ‘Of Tragedy’. It has also been noted that some passages in the Treatise bear marks of Du Bos’ influence. In this essay, we identify many more passages in the Treatise that bear unmistakable signs of Du Bos’ influence…

  • Batteux: The Fine Arts Reduced to a Single Principle: The Fine Arts Reduced to a Single Principle

    Charles Batteux, James O YoungBOOKThe Fine Arts Reduced to a Single…2015

  • The Fine Arts Reduced to a Single Principle

    Charles Batteux, James O YoungCHAPTERThe Fine Arts Reduced to a Single…2015

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  • The Ancient and Modern System of the Arts

    James O YoungARTICLEThe British Journal of Aesthetics2015Cited by: 6

    Paul Oskar Kristeller famously argued that the modern 'system of the arts' did not emerge until the mid-eighteenth century, in the work of Charles Batteux. On this view, the modern conception of the fine arts had no parallel in the ancient world, the middle-ages or the modern period prior to Batteux. This paper argues that Kristeller was wrong. The ancient conception of the imitative arts completely overlaps with Batteux's fine arts: poetry, pain…

  • Kivy on Musical Genius

    James O YoungARTICLEThe British Journal of Aesthetics2011

    Journal Article Kivy on Musical Genius Get access James O. Young James O. Young Department of Philosophy,University of Victoria [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 51, Issue 1, January 2011, Pages 1–12, https://doi.org/10.1093/aesthj/ayq052 Published: 01 January 2011

  • ‘Nothing Comes from Nowhere’: Reflections on Cultural Appropriation as the Representation of Other Cultures

    Open AccessJames O Young, Susan Haley et al.OTHERThe Ethics of Cultural…2009

    This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction Is ‘subject appropriation’ a misnomer? Subject appropriation and misrepresentation Cultural Appropriation and Assimilation Harm and Accurate Representation Privacy Authenticity and Subject Appropriation Envoy Conclusion References

  • The Ethics of Cultural Appropriation

    Open AccessJames O Young, Conrad G BrunkBOOKEthics of Cultural Appropriation2009

  • Ethics of Cultural Appropriation

    Conrad G Brunk, James O YoungBOOKEthics of Cultural Appropriation2009

  • Cultural Appropriation and the Arts

    James O YoungBOOKCultural Appropriation and the Arts2008

  • The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham: The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham, Vol. 12: July 1824 to June 1828: July 1824 to June 1828

    George Canning, Sydney Smith et al.BOOKThe Collected Works of Jeremy…2006

  • The ‘Great Divide’ in Music

    James O YoungARTICLEThe British Journal of Aesthetics2005

    Journal Article The 'Great Divide' in Music Get access James O. Young James O. Young James O. Young, Department of Philosophy, University of Victoria, PO Box 3045, Victoria, BC, Canada V8W 3P4. Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 45, Issue 2, APRIL 2005, Pages 175–184, https://doi.org/10.1093/aesthj/ayi019 Published: 01 January 2005

  • At Memory's Edge: After-Images of the Holocaust in Contemporary Art and Architecture

    Gavriel D Rosenfeld, James O Young et al.REVIEWGerman Studies Review2001

    James Young explores Germany's fraught efforts to memorialize the Holocaust, and also asks how late 20th century artists can remember an event they never knew directly but which is shaped through images in films, photographs and museums

  • Art, Knowledge, and Exemplification

    James O YoungARTICLEThe British Journal of Aesthetics1999

    Journal Article ART, KNOWLEDGE, AND EXEMPLIFICATION Get access James O. Young James O. Young Department of Philosophy, University of VictoriaPO Box 3045, Victoria, BC, Canada V8W 3P4 Email: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 39, Issue 2, April 1999, Pages 126–137, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjaesthetics/39.2.126 Published: 01 April 1999

  • Defining Art Responsibly

    James O YoungARTICLEThe British Journal of Aesthetics1997Cited by: 1

    Journal Article DEFINING ART RESPONSIBLY Get access James O. Young James O. Young Philosophy Department, University of VictoriaPO Box 3045, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada V8W 3P4 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 37, Issue 1, January 1997, Pages 57–65, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjaesthetics/37.1.57 Published: 01 January 1997

  • Questioning foundations: Truth, subjectivity, and culture

    James O YoungARTICLEHistory of European Ideas1995

  • Artworks and Artworlds

    James O YoungARTICLEThe British Journal of Aesthetics1995

    Journal Article ARTWORKS AND ARTWORLDS Get access James O. Young James O. Young Philosophy Department, University of VictoriaPO Box 3045, Victoria, British Columbia V8W 3P4, Canada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 35, Issue 4, October 1995, Pages 330–337, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjaesthetics/35.4.330 Published: 01 October 1995

  • Should white men play the blues

    Open AccessJames O YoungARTICLEThe Journal of Value Inquiry1994

  • The World We Found: The Limits of Ontological TalkMark Sacks La Salle, IL: Open Court, 1989, x + 198 p

    Open AccessJames O YoungARTICLEDialogue1992

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  • Coherence, anti-realism and the Vienna Circle

    Open AccessJames O YoungARTICLESynthese1991References: 8

  • In Defence of Colourization

    James O YoungARTICLEThe British Journal of Aesthetics1988

    Journal Article IN DEFENCE OF COLOURIZATION Get access James O. Young James O. Young Dept of Philosophy, University of VictoriaPO Box 1700, Victoria, British Columbia, V8W 2Y2, Canada. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 28, Issue 4, AUTUMN 1988, Pages 368–372, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjaesthetics/28.4.368 Published: 01 April 1988