Art and abstract objects / edited by Christy Mag Uidhir.
Mag Uidhir, Christy, editor.
2012
BH39 .A6846 2012 (Mapit)
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Title
Art and abstract objects / edited by Christy Mag Uidhir.
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780199691494
0199691495
Published
Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2012.
Copyright
©2012
Language
English
Description
vi, 310 pages ; 24 cm
Call Number
BH39 .A6846 2012
Dewey Decimal Classification
111.85
Summary
This book presents a lively philosophical exchange between the philosophy of art and the core areas of philosophy. The standard way of thinking about non-repeatable (single-instance) artworks such as paintings, drawings, and non-cast sculpture is that they are concrete (i.e., material, causally efficacious, located in space and time). This volume examines how philosophical enquiry into art might itself productively inform or be productively informed by enquiry into abstracta taking place within not just metaphysics but also the philosophy of mathematics, epistemology, philosophy of science, and philosophy of mind and language. While the contributors chiefly focus on the relationship between philosophy of art and contemporary metaphysics with respect to the overlap issue of abstracta, they provide a methodological blueprint from which scholars working both within and beyond philosophy of art can begin building responsible, mutually informative, and productive relationships between their respective fields.
Note
This book presents a lively philosophical exchange between the philosophy of art and the core areas of philosophy. The standard way of thinking about non-repeatable (single-instance) artworks such as paintings, drawings, and non-cast sculpture is that they are concrete (i.e., material, causally efficacious, located in space and time). This volume examines how philosophical enquiry into art might itself productively inform or be productively informed by enquiry into abstracta taking place within not just metaphysics but also the philosophy of mathematics, epistemology, philosophy of science, and philosophy of mind and language. While the contributors chiefly focus on the relationship between philosophy of art and contemporary metaphysics with respect to the overlap issue of abstracta, they provide a methodological blueprint from which scholars working both within and beyond philosophy of art can begin building responsible, mutually informative, and productive relationships between their respective fields.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Mag Uidhir, Christy, editor.
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Introduction : art, metaphysics, and the paradox of standards / Christy Mag Uidhir
[part] I. General ontological issues. Must ontological pragmatism be self-defeating? / Guy Rohrbaugh
Indication, abstraction, and individuation / Jerrold Levinson
Destroying artworks / Marcus Rossberg
[part] II. Informative comparisons. Art, open-endedness, and indefinite extensibility / Roy T. Cook
Historical individuals like Anas platyrhynchos and 'classical gas' / P.D. Magnus
Repeatable artwork sentences and generics / Shieva Kłeinshcmidt and Jacob Ross
[part] III. Arguments against and alternatives to. Against repeatable artworks / Allan Hazlett
How to be a nominalist and a fictional realist / Ross P. Cameron
Platonism vs. nominalism in contemporary musical ontology / Andrew Kania
[part] IV. Abstracta across the arts. Reflections on the metaphysics of sculpture / Hud Hudson
Installation art and performance : a shared ontology / Sherri Irvin
What type of 'type' is a film? / David Davies
Musical works : a mash-up / Joseph G. Moore.

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