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Musical Works Without Musical Works: An Essay in Ontology

dc.contributor.authorHilland, Sanborn
dc.contributor.copyright-releaseNot Applicableen_US
dc.contributor.degreeMaster of Artsen_US
dc.contributor.departmentDepartment of Philosophyen_US
dc.contributor.ethics-approvalNot Applicableen_US
dc.contributor.external-examinern/aen_US
dc.contributor.graduate-coordinatorMichael Hymersen_US
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dc.contributor.thesis-readerDuncan MacIntoshen_US
dc.contributor.thesis-readerMichael Hymersen_US
dc.contributor.thesis-supervisorAnthony Fisheren_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-08-26T19:05:11Z
dc.date.available2013-08-26T19:05:11Z
dc.date.defence2013-08-19
dc.date.issued2013-08-26
dc.description.abstractThis thesis provides an answer to the question, “what is a musical work?” I begin by canvasing four of the leading accounts in the literature, two Platonist theories and two Nominalist theories. Nominalism is, I suggest, well motivated, though neither of the two accounts given is satisfying. Next, I provide a detailed account of the main view in the literature, Julian Dodd’s type theory of musical works. According to Dodd, musical works are types and therefore are abstract entities. In Chapter 3 I criticize Dodd’s view by arguing that positing abstract type-entities provides no explanatory power so they should be rejected. Finally in Chapter 4 I show that a satisfying Nominalist account that does not identify any entity with musical works can be given. Thus, Dodd is correct to say that musical works are types but incorrect to suggest that this thereby commits us to an ontology including types.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10222/36254
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectMetaphysicsen_US
dc.subjectOntologyen_US
dc.subjectTruthmakingen_US
dc.subjectMusicen_US
dc.subjectMusical Worksen_US
dc.subjectPlatonismen_US
dc.subjectNominalismen_US
dc.titleMusical Works Without Musical Works: An Essay in Ontologyen_US

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