An Ontology of Multiple Artworks - David Davies

An Ontology of Multiple Artworks

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Buch | Hardcover
240 Seiten
2024
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-284886-4 (ISBN)
87,25 inkl. MwSt
David Davies examines the ontology of multiple artworks, such as books and musical performances. He argues against a theory of multiple works as 'types' that are independent of creative and appreciative acts, instead defending a view on which they are performances essentially embedded in artistic practices.
Multiple artworks are works that can have multiple 'instances' which can play a particular kind of role in the appreciation of those works: for example, there can be multiple copies of a novel, or multiple performances of a musical work. An Ontology of Multiple Artworks is the first book-length critical analytic treatment of the metaphysical issues relating to 'multiple' artworks for over three decades. David Davies takes various considerations to which authors have appealed in arguing for ontological understandings of works in particular multiple art-forms as putative explananda, arguing that an adequate ontology of multiple artworks should be reflectively accountable to these. After clarifying what 'multiplicity' in the arts amounts to, Davies critically assesses the 'Platonist' idea that multiple artworks must be abstract or generic entities of some sort ('types') that exist independently of our creative and appreciative practices. The evolution of this idea is traced, and its ability to deal with the different explananda in play in the literature is gauged. The methodological constraints that should govern this kind of inquiry are also assessed. On the basis of these investigations, it is concluded that Platonism about multiple artworks is seriously compromised. Different non-Platonist options are then considered, and it is argued that the account that best explains the weighted explananda is the 'Wollheimian type' theory, according to which multiple artworks are performances essentially embedded in artistic practices. Finally, sceptical challenges to the very idea that there are such things as multiple artworks are considered.

David Davies is Professor in the Department of Philosophy at McGill University, where he has taught since 1987. He completed a BA at Oxford and did graduate study in philosophy at Manitoba and Western Ontario. His doctoral thesis was on Putnam and Dummett's 'anti-realism'. His research specializations are in philosophy of art, especially metaphysical and epistemological issues relating to literature, film, photography, and the visual and performing arts. Other research areas include metaphysics, philosophy of language, and philosophy of mind. He is a member of the RSC and former president of the ASA (2021-23).

Introduction
1: What is a Multiple Artwork?
2: Multiple Artworks as Abstract Entities: An Introductory Overview
3: Two Explananda for a Theory of Multiples: Perceivability and Creatability
4: Two Further Explananda: Fine Individuation and Performance Means
5: 5. Methodological Interlude: The Primacy of Practice in the Ontology of Art
6: Further Explananda: Flexibility and variability
7: The Nine Explananda Revisited
8: Non-Platonist Ontologies of Multiples
9: Multiple Artworks as Wollheimian Types
10: Can Non-Platonists be Realists about Multiple Artworks?

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 165 x 242 mm
Gewicht 514 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Allgemeines / Lexika
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Metaphysik / Ontologie
ISBN-10 0-19-284886-0 / 0192848860
ISBN-13 978-0-19-284886-4 / 9780192848864
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