Why can’t I change Bruckner’s Eighth Symphony?

Friedell, David

doi:10.1007/s11098-018-1207-3

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“…Finally, the effect of composer appears to be very weak. Our results in Study 3 offer some modest support for a weak version of the hypothesis that change by a second composer is more disruptive to work identity than change by the original composer (Friedell 2020). However, our main goal was to see whether changing the purpose has an influence on judgments of persistence, and we gave less attention to the other two variables.…”

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The Role of Teleological Thinking in Judgments of Persistence of Musical Works

Mikalonytė

Dranseika

2021

The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism

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In his article “The Ontology of Musical Versions: Introducing the Hypothesis of Nested Types,” Nemesio Puy raises a hypothesis that continuity of the purpose is both a necessary and a sufficient condition for musical work’s identity. Puy’s hypothesis is relevant to two topics in cognitive psychology and experimental philosophy. The first topic is the prevalence of teleological reasoning about various objects and its influence on persistence and categorization judgments. The second one is the importance of an artist’s intention in the categorization of artworks. We tested the teleological hypothesis across three studies. Vignettes in these three studies describe a musical work being changed in some of these aspects: (1) purpose either changed or retained; (2) score either changed or retained; (3) change is made either by the same or a different composer. The results suggest that teleological considerations impact judgments on the persistence of musical works, but this impact appears to be relatively weak. The results also suggest that persistence judgments strongly depend on whether acoustical properties were changed, while whether the change was made by the original composer seems to be relatively unimportant.

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The Role of Teleological Thinking in Judgments of Persistence of Musical Works

Mikalonytė

Dranseika

2021

The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism

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“…claims that establishments are like abstract artefacts in that both can be changed by decisions. For example, a composer can shorten a song by deciding to drop a verse [Friedell 2020]. However, musical works are often regarded as abstract objects that are, as such, not subject to change [Dodd 2000].…”

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Establishments as Material rather than Immaterial Objects

Hindriks

2020

Australasian Journal of Philosophy

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When people go shopping, they enter a building. But the shop cannot be identified with the building, because it would remain the same shop if it moved to another building or if it became an e-store. Daniel Korman [2019] uses these two observations to argue that establishments are immaterial objects. However, all that follows is that establishments are not buildings. I argue that establishments are organisations or corporate agents that are constituted by people. This entails that they are material objects. Korman's observations can be accommodated in terms of the further observation that corporate agents can but need not own or rent buildings.

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“…1 1 Abstract creationists about musical works include Levinson (1980, 2011), Evnine (2009, 2016), Rohrbaugh (2003), and Friedell (2020). Abstract creationists about fictional characters include Braun (2005), Goodman (2004), Thomasson (1998, 2003a, 2003b), Salmon (1998), von Solodkoff (2014), Kripke (2013), and Zvolensky (2015).…”

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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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Why can’t I change Bruckner’s Eighth Symphony?

Cited by 27 publications

References 45 publications

The Role of Teleological Thinking in Judgments of Persistence of Musical Works

The Role of Teleological Thinking in Judgments of Persistence of Musical Works

Establishments as Material rather than Immaterial Objects

Creating abstract objects

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