Alison Laywine
Biographic Data
| ID | 1135597 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alison Laywine |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alison |
| FAMILY NAME | Laywine |
| SIGNATURE | LAYWINE A |
| AFFILIATIONS | McGill University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Fārābī Had an Arabic Translation of Ptolemy’s Harmonics, and He Read It Very Carefully
Fārābī had an Arabic translation of Ptolemy’s Harmonics and was deeply immersed in it. The evidence is internal to Kitāb al-Mūsīqā al-kabīr . A passage can be found at the end of the first book of the madḫal in which Ptolemy is mentioned by name and his treatise on music also receives explicit mention. The puzzle is that, according to Fārābī, Ptolemy acknowledges directly in the Harmonics that he could not discriminate different patterns of attun…
Al-Fārābī’s Conception of Music Theory as the Universal Science of Melody
Al-Fārābī conceived of music theory as a universal science of melody whose task is to determine the whole range of what is musically possible. It does not restrict itself to codifying the conventions of any particular musical idiom. In this, it is akin to logic – the universal science of all things thinkable, which does not reduce to the grammar of any given natural language
Kant's Transcendental Deduction
The Transcendental Deduction in Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason tries to show that all human thought and knowledge depend on the categories of the understanding and that these categories can apply only to appearances. If it works as an argument, it implies that metaphysics as a science of non-sensible things is impossible. The author of this book argues, however, that the Transcendental Deduction reflects Kant’s long engagement with the branch of …
Greek and Roman Musical Studies 1
Kant's Metaphysical Reflections in the Duisburg Nachlaß
The purpose of what follows is to show that, in the 1775 collection of notes called the “ Duisburg Nachlaß ” (henceforth, DN ), Kant adapted central ideas from his early metaphysics in order to clarify the role of the thinking subject as a necessary condition of empirical knowledge. I shall try to show how these adaptations were made, how they were philosophically significant, and how they can help us understand what Kant was trying to do in the …
Kant on the Self as Model of Experience
Kant's correspondence includes a short letter from a well-wisher named Bertram. The content of the letter is as harmless as it is uninteresting: Bertram invites Kant to visit his brother's estate. ‘Do come,’ he says, ‘because the weather is so beautiful and such travel so beneficial’ (10: 182). The interest of the letter is entirely exhausted by the date: 20 May 1775. For Kant used the letter to scribble down ideas, some suggestive of themes late…
Kant on Sensibility and the Understanding in the 1770s
The Duisburg Nachlaβ is a bundle of Kant's handwritten notes (R4674- 4684 in volume 17 of the Academy Edition). These notes almost certainly go back to some time in 1775. Though very obscure, they replay issues in Kant's early metaphysics just as clearly as they anticipate issues in the Critique of Pure Reason. This makes them an important way-station in Kant's philosophical development — all the more important, because he published nothing in th…
Substance, Force, and the Possibility of Knowledge
Substance, Force, and the Possibility of Knowledge
Book Review| July 01 2002 Substance, Force, and the Possibility of Knowledge: On Kant's Philosophy of Nature Jeffrey Edwards, Substance, Force, and the Possibility of Knowledge: On Kant's Philosophy of Nature. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. Pp. xiv, 277. Alison Laywine Alison Laywine Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Philosophical Review (2002) 111 (3): 439–442. https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-111-3-…
Malebranche, Jansenism and the Sixth Meditation
Dans le cadre du debat sur l'interpretation democratique du salut divin promis par Saint Paul dans la premiere epitre a Thimothee, l'A. montre que Malebranche partage avec Jansen l'idee que Dieu n'a pas d'auxiliaire, mais qu'il rejette la lecture non-universaliste du salut. Dans son «Traite sur la nature et la grâce», Malebranche tente de contrer l'interpretation janseniste de «Thimothee» et de reconcilier la volonte redemptrice avec la convictio…
Kant on Sensibility and the Understanding in the 1770s
The Duisburg Nachlaβ is a bundle of Kant's handwritten notes (R4674- 4684 in volume 17 of the Academy Edition). These notes almost certainly go back to some time in 1775. Though very obscure, they replay issues in Kant's early metaphysics just as clearly as they anticipate issues in the Critique of Pure Reason. This makes them an important way-station in Kant's philosophical development — all the more important, because he published nothing in th…
Kant's Transcendental Deduction
The Transcendental Deduction in Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason tries to show that all human thought and knowledge depend on the categories of the understanding and that these categories can apply only to appearances. If it works as an argument, it implies that metaphysics as a science of non-sensible things is impossible. The author of this book argues, however, that the Transcendental Deduction reflects Kant’s long engagement with the branch of …
Greek and Roman Musical Studies 1
Malebranche, Jansenism and the Sixth Meditation
Dans le cadre du debat sur l'interpretation democratique du salut divin promis par Saint Paul dans la premiere epitre a Thimothee, l'A. montre que Malebranche partage avec Jansen l'idee que Dieu n'a pas d'auxiliaire, mais qu'il rejette la lecture non-universaliste du salut. Dans son «Traite sur la nature et la grâce», Malebranche tente de contrer l'interpretation janseniste de «Thimothee» et de reconcilier la volonte redemptrice avec la convictio…
Substance, Force, and the Possibility of Knowledge
Substance, Force, and the Possibility of Knowledge
Book Review| July 01 2002 Substance, Force, and the Possibility of Knowledge: On Kant's Philosophy of Nature Jeffrey Edwards, Substance, Force, and the Possibility of Knowledge: On Kant's Philosophy of Nature. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. Pp. xiv, 277. Alison Laywine Alison Laywine Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Philosophical Review (2002) 111 (3): 439–442. https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-111-3-…
Kant on Sensibility and the Understanding in the 1770s
The Duisburg Nachlaβ is a bundle of Kant's handwritten notes (R4674- 4684 in volume 17 of the Academy Edition). These notes almost certainly go back to some time in 1775. Though very obscure, they replay issues in Kant's early metaphysics just as clearly as they anticipate issues in the Critique of Pure Reason. This makes them an important way-station in Kant's philosophical development — all the more important, because he published nothing in th…
Kant on the Self as Model of Experience
Kant's correspondence includes a short letter from a well-wisher named Bertram. The content of the letter is as harmless as it is uninteresting: Bertram invites Kant to visit his brother's estate. ‘Do come,’ he says, ‘because the weather is so beautiful and such travel so beneficial’ (10: 182). The interest of the letter is entirely exhausted by the date: 20 May 1775. For Kant used the letter to scribble down ideas, some suggestive of themes late…
Kant's Metaphysical Reflections in the Duisburg Nachlaß
The purpose of what follows is to show that, in the 1775 collection of notes called the “ Duisburg Nachlaß ” (henceforth, DN ), Kant adapted central ideas from his early metaphysics in order to clarify the role of the thinking subject as a necessary condition of empirical knowledge. I shall try to show how these adaptations were made, how they were philosophically significant, and how they can help us understand what Kant was trying to do in the …
Greek and Roman Musical Studies 1
Kant's Transcendental Deduction
The Transcendental Deduction in Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason tries to show that all human thought and knowledge depend on the categories of the understanding and that these categories can apply only to appearances. If it works as an argument, it implies that metaphysics as a science of non-sensible things is impossible. The author of this book argues, however, that the Transcendental Deduction reflects Kant’s long engagement with the branch of …
Al-Fārābī’s Conception of Music Theory as the Universal Science of Melody
Al-Fārābī conceived of music theory as a universal science of melody whose task is to determine the whole range of what is musically possible. It does not restrict itself to codifying the conventions of any particular musical idiom. In this, it is akin to logic – the universal science of all things thinkable, which does not reduce to the grammar of any given natural language
Fārābī Had an Arabic Translation of Ptolemy’s Harmonics, and He Read It Very Carefully
Fārābī had an Arabic translation of Ptolemy’s Harmonics and was deeply immersed in it. The evidence is internal to Kitāb al-Mūsīqā al-kabīr . A passage can be found at the end of the first book of the madḫal in which Ptolemy is mentioned by name and his treatise on music also receives explicit mention. The puzzle is that, according to Fārābī, Ptolemy acknowledges directly in the Harmonics that he could not discriminate different patterns of attun…
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