Types, Indicated and Initiated
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4160997 |
|---|---|
| Authors | R Howell, Rebecca Gayle Howell (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 105-127 |
| Publication date | 2002-04-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The British Journal of Aesthetics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-0904 • E-ISSN: 1468-2842 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/bjaesthetics/42.2.105 |
| OpenAlex | W1965536626 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
I defend the conception of musical works as indicated temporally initiated types against Julian Dodd's recent argument that all types are eternal and uncreated. In doing so, I develop a new account of both cultural and natural types. While types are in a certain sense determined by the properties that underlie them, not all properties determine types; and properties such as being indicated by Beethoven exist only once the temporally initiated entities that those properties essentially involve exist. A cultural type such as Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is a sound pattern that has the essential property of being used in the way specified by Beethoven's singling out of that pattern. (Natural types, such as bird songs or biological species, are patterns having places in actual causal chains in nature.) Given this framework, the Fifth Symphony is an indicated type that was, in a straightforward literal sense, created by Beethoven in 1804–1808
Aesthetics · Argument (complex analysis · Art · Biology · Epistemology · Linguistics · Literature · Movement (music · Musical · Natural (archaeology · Physics · Property (philosophy · Symphony · Type (biology · Variation (astronomy · Communication · Ecology · History · Musicology and Musical Analysis · Philosophy · Philosophy and History of Science · Pragmatism in Philosophy and Education · Psychology
A Plea for Concrete Universals
Intuitions in the Ontology of Musical Works
Musical Mereology
Musical Works as Structural Universals
Paraphrasability and the Causal Status of Types
Musical works’ repeatability, audibility and variability
Are musical works sound structures
The problem of creation and abstract artifacts
The artifactual duality of architecture and its ontological implications for legal protection
Musical Ontology and the Audibility of Musical Works
| Citations per year | 0.91 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2015 - 2026 (12) |
| Highly cited | No |