In
Spring 2007, the Philosophy Department will be hosting Trinity
University’s first ever
Lennox Seminar.
Five prominent philosophers of art will be visiting Trinity University. In
addition to presenting a public lecture on a current topic in
philosophical aesthetics, each visiting scholar will give a colloquium
presentation of his current research in the
ontology of music
– the study of the nature of, and relationships between, musical items
such as works, performances, and recordings. These colloquium
presentations will form the basis of a seminar in musical ontology
(PHIL3358/MUSC3358: Philosophy of Music), led by
Dr. Andrew Kania.
We are
pleased to announce that the following scholars will be participating in
the project:
Lee B. Brown
(Ohio State University)
David Davies
(McGill University, Canada)
Stephen Davies
(University of Auckland, New Zealand)
Theodore Gracyk
(Minnesota State University)
Jerrold Levinson
(University of Maryland)
The
public lectures
will take place on Tuesdays at 8pm, in a venue to be announced. Each talk
with be followed by a reception, to which all are invited.
Feb 20 David Davies, ‘Telling Pictures:
The Place of Narrative in the Visual Arts’
Mar 6 Lee Brown,
'Is Live Music Dead?'
Mar 26 Stephen Davies, ‘Photographic
Representation’
Apr 10 Jerrold Levinson, ‘Beauty Is Not
One: The Many Species of Beauty’
Apr 24 Ted Gracyk, ‘Fakin’ It: Is There
Authenticity in Commercial Music?’
The
colloquium presentations
will be held on Mondays, 4:30-7:30pm, in Chapman Graduate Center, Room
045. They are open to all interested parties.
Feb 19 David Davies, ‘Why Simplicity Isn’t Always a Virtue:
On Dodd’s “Simple View” of Musical Ontology’
Mar 5 Lee Brown, 'The
Ontology of Popular Music: A Philosophical Snipe Hunt?'
Mar 26 Stephen Davies, ‘Musical Works and Ontological
Issues’
Apr 9 Jerrold Levinson, ‘Indication, Abstraction, and
Individualization’
Apr 23 Theodore Gracyk, ‘Possibilities, Actualities, and
Musical Meaning’
Check back for more
information as it comes to hand!
