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Art and abstract objects /

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 effi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Mag Uidhir, Christy
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Corby : Oxford University Press, 2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • ""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""List of Contributors""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Introduction: Art, Metaphysics, and the Paradox of Standards""; ""I. General Ontological Issues""; ""1. Must Ontological Pragmatism be Self-Defeating?""; ""2. Indication, Abstraction, and Individuation""; ""3. Destroying Artworks""; ""II. Informative Comparisons""; ""4. Art, Open-Endedness, and Indefinite Extensibility""; ""5. Historical Individuals Like Anas platyrhynchos and â€?Classical Gasâ€?""; ""6. Repeatable Artwork Sentences and Generics""; ""III. Arguments Against and Alternatives To""
  • ""7. Against Repeatable Artworks""""8. How to be a Nominalist and a Fictional Realist""; ""9. Platonism vs. Nominalism in Contemporary Musical Ontology""; ""IV. Abstracta Across the Arts""; ""10. Reflections on the Metaphysics of Sculpture""; ""11. Installation Art and Performance: A Shared Ontology""; ""12. What Type of â€?Typeâ€? is a Film?""; ""13. Musical Works: A Mash-Up""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""