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Author Walton, Kendall L., 1939- author.

Uniform Title Essays. Selections
Title In other shoes : music, metaphor, empathy, existence / Kendall L. Walton.

Publication Info. New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2015]
2015

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Description 1 online resource (306 pages) : illustrations
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Note Includes index.
Contents Empathy, imagination and phenomenal concepts -- Fictionality and imagination : mind the gap -- Two kinds of physicality, in electronic and acoustic music -- Postscripts to 'Two kinds of physicality, in electronic and acoustic music' -- Thoughtwriting-in poetry and music -- 'It's only a game' : sports as fiction -- Restricted quantification, negative existentials, and fiction -- Existence as metaphor? -- Postscript to 'Existence as metaphor?' -- Projectivism, empathy, and musical tension -- Listening with imagination : is music representational? -- Metaphor and prop oriented make-believe -- Understanding humor and understanding music -- What is abstract about the art of music? -- The presentation and portrayal of sound patterns -- Postscripts to 'The presentation and portrayal of sound patterns' -- Fearing fictions -- Spelunking, simulation and slime : on being moved by fiction.
Note Description based on print version record.
Subject Aesthetics.
Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
Art -- Philosophy.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Walton, Kendall L. In other shoes : music, metaphor, empathy, existence. New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2015] 9780195098723 (DLC)10985869
ISBN 9780195098716 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780195098723 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780199723225 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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