Abstract Generationism: A Response to Friedell

Cray, Wesley D.

doi:10.1111/jaac.12377

Cited by 12 publications

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“…We can say the same thing in the case of Sophie the Clutz: Sophie had no intention to make anything, she was just moving through the garage. However, through various movements and coincidences, her actions led to various material objects coming to be shaped just like a standard chair, 32 Friedell (2016Friedell ( , 2017, Brock (2017), Cray (2017), and Goodman (2020) raise similar cases of accidental creation as counterexamples to (IDA). none of which was intended by her.…”

Section: Cases Of Appropriationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Artifacts and mind-dependence

Juvshik

2021

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I defend the intention-dependence of artifacts (IDA), which says that something is an artifact of kind K only if it is the successful product of an intention to make an artifact of kind K. I consider objections from two directions. First, that artifacts are often mind-and intention-dependent, but that this isn't necessary, as shown by swamp cases. I offer various error theories for why someone would have artifact intuitions in such cases. Second, that while artifacts are necessarily mind-dependent, they aren't necessarily intention-dependent. I consider and reject three kinds of cases which purport to show this: accidental creation, automated production, and mass production. I argue that intentions are present in all of these cases, but not where we would normally expect.

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Section: Cases Of Appropriationmentioning

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Artifacts and mind-dependence

Juvshik

2021

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“…To this end, Cray (2017) gives a counterfactual account: roughly, authors inadvertently generate characters whenever they take actions such that they would have intentionally generated a character if they had intended to create one while taking the same actions. On this account, then, Jemison in the above example unintentionally generates Essun.…”

Section: Inadvertent Creationmentioning

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Creating abstract objects

Friedell

2021

Philosophy Compass

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Beach's Gaelic Symphony is plausibly an abstract object that Beach created. The view that people create some abstract objects is called abstract creationism. There are abstract creationists about many kinds of objects, including musical works, fictional characters, arguments, words, internet memes, installation artworks, bitcoins, and restaurants. Alternative theories include materialism and Platonism. This paper discusses some of the most serious objections against abstract creationism. Arguably, these objections have ramifications for questions in metaphysics pertaining to the abstract/concrete distinction, time, causation, vague existence, vague identity, and inadvertent creation.

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“…Perhaps, a theory in the vicinity of ICP—but designed to handle the Rowling example—will ultimately work out. Wesley Cray () suggests a variant of ICP along these lines. Either way, Brock has given us a goal: to discern how people may inadvertently make characters, tables, and other kinds of objects that are often intentionally made.…”

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A Problem for All of Creation

Friedell

2018

The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism

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Abstract Generationism: A Response to Friedell

Cited by 12 publications

References 15 publications

Artifacts and mind-dependence

Artifacts and mind-dependence

Creating abstract objects

A Problem for All of Creation

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