Norman Sieroka
Biographic Data
| ID | 4494118 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Norman Sieroka |
| GIVEN NAMES | Norman |
| FAMILY NAME | Sieroka |
| SIGNATURE | SIEROKA N |
| AFFILIATIONS | ETH Zurich |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2824-7641 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Musical Experience as an Exemplar for the Philosophy of Time
Various eminent composers and musicians have claimed that music is the art of time and that important philosophical implications may follow from that. This paper aims to corroborate and explicate such claims in a step-by-step fashion. It starts by introducing some central questions from the philosophy of time. Next, the intimate relationship between time and hearing is discussed, before moving on to the specific case of music and musical experien…
Time and Time Experience in Music
Being “in-tact” and well
Well-being depends not only on what happens but also on when it happens. There are temporal aspects of well-being, and to a large extent those aspects are about relative timing—about being “in-tact.” On the one hand, there is a perspectival aspect about being in-tact with one’s past, present, and future or, in a less involved sense, with one’s life as a whole. On the other hand, there is a synchronization aspect of being in-tact; and this aspect …
Theoretical construction in physics – The role of Leibniz for Weyl's ‘Philosophie der Mathematik und Naturwissenschaft’
Leibniz, Husserl, and the brain
Leibniz, Husserl and the Brain is about the structural relations between phenomenological and neurophysiological aspects of perception, consciousness and time. Its focus lies with auditory perception, since nearly all perceived qualities in hearing - such as pitch, rhythm and the localization or origin of a sound - are most intimately related to temporal patterns and regularities. Here striking analogies are shown between the structural features …
Holography as a principle in quantum gravity?—Some historical and systematic observations
Geometrization Versus Transcendent Matter
This article investigates an intertwined systematic and historical view on theories of matter. It follows an approach brought forward by Hermann Weyl around 1925, applies it to recent theories of matter in physics (including geometrodynamics and quantum gravity), and embeds it into a more general philosophical framework. First, I shall discuss the physical and philosophical problems of a unified field theory on the basis of Weyl's own abandonment…
Weyl’s ‘agens theory’ of matter and the Zurich Fichte
Quasi-Hearing in Husserl, Levinson, and Gordon
This essay brings out the conceptual confluence in Husserl’s early account on the perception of music, Levinson’s notion of quasi-hearing, and Gordon’s concept of audiation. They all ascribe a central role to our capability of integrating acoustic information spread out over some time and take it to render musical understanding possible. The interval of this integration process, i.e. the extension of the ‘Zeithof’ or the ‘temporal window of quasi…
Phenomenology Meets Logical Semantics
The aim of this paper is to draw out some connections between phenomenology and logical semantics in respect of the theory of truth. Jan Wolenski has discussed several continuities from Brentano to Tarski and this paper is a further development of his approach.1 Wolenski’s account fails to take Husserl into consideration and I shall argue here that a comparison between Husserl and Tarski proves to be a particularly fruitful means of drawing out t…
One Whitehead, Not Three
Weyl’s ‘agens theory’ of matter and the Zurich Fichte
Geometrization Versus Transcendent Matter
This article investigates an intertwined systematic and historical view on theories of matter. It follows an approach brought forward by Hermann Weyl around 1925, applies it to recent theories of matter in physics (including geometrodynamics and quantum gravity), and embeds it into a more general philosophical framework. First, I shall discuss the physical and philosophical problems of a unified field theory on the basis of Weyl's own abandonment…
One Whitehead, Not Three
Phenomenology Meets Logical Semantics
The aim of this paper is to draw out some connections between phenomenology and logical semantics in respect of the theory of truth. Jan Wolenski has discussed several continuities from Brentano to Tarski and this paper is a further development of his approach.1 Wolenski’s account fails to take Husserl into consideration and I shall argue here that a comparison between Husserl and Tarski proves to be a particularly fruitful means of drawing out t…
Quasi-Hearing in Husserl, Levinson, and Gordon
This essay brings out the conceptual confluence in Husserl’s early account on the perception of music, Levinson’s notion of quasi-hearing, and Gordon’s concept of audiation. They all ascribe a central role to our capability of integrating acoustic information spread out over some time and take it to render musical understanding possible. The interval of this integration process, i.e. the extension of the ‘Zeithof’ or the ‘temporal window of quasi…
Weyl’s ‘agens theory’ of matter and the Zurich Fichte
Geometrization Versus Transcendent Matter
This article investigates an intertwined systematic and historical view on theories of matter. It follows an approach brought forward by Hermann Weyl around 1925, applies it to recent theories of matter in physics (including geometrodynamics and quantum gravity), and embeds it into a more general philosophical framework. First, I shall discuss the physical and philosophical problems of a unified field theory on the basis of Weyl's own abandonment…
Holography as a principle in quantum gravity?—Some historical and systematic observations
Leibniz, Husserl, and the brain
Leibniz, Husserl and the Brain is about the structural relations between phenomenological and neurophysiological aspects of perception, consciousness and time. Its focus lies with auditory perception, since nearly all perceived qualities in hearing - such as pitch, rhythm and the localization or origin of a sound - are most intimately related to temporal patterns and regularities. Here striking analogies are shown between the structural features …
Theoretical construction in physics – The role of Leibniz for Weyl's ‘Philosophie der Mathematik und Naturwissenschaft’
Being “in-tact” and well
Well-being depends not only on what happens but also on when it happens. There are temporal aspects of well-being, and to a large extent those aspects are about relative timing—about being “in-tact.” On the one hand, there is a perspectival aspect about being in-tact with one’s past, present, and future or, in a less involved sense, with one’s life as a whole. On the other hand, there is a synchronization aspect of being in-tact; and this aspect …
Musical Experience as an Exemplar for the Philosophy of Time
Various eminent composers and musicians have claimed that music is the art of time and that important philosophical implications may follow from that. This paper aims to corroborate and explicate such claims in a step-by-step fashion. It starts by introducing some central questions from the philosophy of time. Next, the intimate relationship between time and hearing is discussed, before moving on to the specific case of music and musical experien…
Time and Time Experience in Music
Epistemology (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Physics (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Phenomenology (philosophy) (3 works) · Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Philosophy, Science, and History (3 works) · Quantum mechanics (3 works) · Theoretical physics (3 works)