Andrew Kania
Curriculum Vitae
Education
Ph.D. (Philosophy)
University of Maryland, College Park (2005)
Dissertation: Pieces of Music: The Ontology of Classical, Rock, and Jazz Music
M.A. with first class honours (Philosophy)
University of Auckland, New Zealand (1999)
Thesis: Not Just for the Record: A Philosophical Analysis of Classical Music Recordings
AIKOM Study Abroad Program
University of Tokyo, Komaba (1996)
B.A. (Philosophy and English)
University of Auckland, New Zealand (1996)
Publications
Edited Books
The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Music, co-edited with Theodore Gracyk (Routledge, forthcoming).
Philosophers on Memento (Routledge, 2009).
Refereed articles and chapters
‘A Horny Dilemma: Sex and Friendship between Students and Professors’ in College, Sex, and Philosophy, ed. Michael Bruce and Robert Stewart (Blackwell, forthcoming).
‘Musical Recordings’ Philosophy Compass 4 (2009): 22-38.
‘Works, Recordings, Performances: Classical, Rock, Jazz’ in Recorded Music: Philosophical and Critical Reflections, ed. Mine Dogantan Dack (Middlesex University Press, 2008), pp. 3-21.
‘The Methodology of Musical Ontology: Descriptivism and its Implications’ British Journal of Aesthetics 48 (2008): 426-44. (Winner of the inaugural British Society for Aesthetics Essay Prize)
‘Piece for the End of Time: In Defense of Musical Ontology’ British Journal of Aesthetics 48 (2008): 65-79.
‘The Philosophy of Music’ The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ed. Edward N. Zalta (Winter 2007 Edition) URL = <http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/music/>.
‘Worlds are Colliding! Explaining the Fictional in Terms of the Real’ Philosophical Studies 135 (2007): 65-71.
‘Making Tracks: The Ontology of Rock Music’ Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 64 (2006): 401-14.
Selected to represent the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism on its promotional fridge magnet.
Reprinted in Aesthetics: A Reader in Philosophy of the Arts, ed. David Goldblatt and Lee Brown, third edition (Pearson Education, forthcoming).
‘Against the Ubiquity of Fictional Narrators’ Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 63 (2005): 47-54.
‘The Illusion of Realism in Film’ British Journal of Aesthetics 42 (2002): 243-58.
Non-refereed articles and chapters
‘Introduction’ to The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Music, ed. Theodore Gracyk and Andrew Kania (Routledge, forthcoming). (Co-authored with Theodore Gracyk)
‘Definition’ in The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Music, ed. Theodore Gracyk and Andrew Kania (Routledge, forthcoming).
‘Introduction’ to Philosophers on Memento, ed. Andrew Kania (Routledge, forthcoming).
‘What is Memento?: Ontology and Interpretation in Mainstream Film’ in Philosophers on Memento, ed. Andrew Kania (Routledge, forthcoming).
‘Realism’ in The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Film, ed. Paisley Livingston and Carl Plantinga (Routledge, 2008), pp. 237-48.
‘Memento’ in The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Film, ed. Paisley Livingston and Carl Plantinga (Routledge, 2008), pp. 650-60.
‘New Waves in Musical Ontology’ in New Waves in Aesthetics, ed. Kathleen Stock and Katherine Thomson-Jones (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008) pp. 20-40.
‘Against Them, Too: A Reply to Alward’ Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 65 (2007): 404-8.
Book reviews
Review of The Philosophy of Motion Pictures by Noël Carroll. Analysis (forthcoming).
Review of Works of Music by Julian Dodd. Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 66 (2008): 201-3.
Review of Art as Performance by David Davies. Mind 114 (2005): 137-41.
Review of Arguing about Art (second edition), ed. Alex Neill and Aaron Ridley. American Society for Aesthetics Newsletter 24/2 (2004): 3-5.
Review of Musical Works and Performances by Stephen Davies. Mind 112 (2003): 513-18.
Presentations
Invited
‘The Methodology of Musical Ontology: Descriptivism and its Implications’
British Society for Aesthetics, Annual Conference (2008)
(Winner of the inaugural British Society for Aesthetics Essay Prize)
‘Film, Fiction, and Narration’
Department of Philosophy, University of Kent (2008)
‘Gary Iseminger’s The Aesthetic Function of Art’
American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division Meeting (2007)
Comments on Nicholas Diehl’s ‘Fictional Narration and the Ontological-Gap Debate’
American Philosophical Association, Central Division Meeting (2007)
‘Pieces of Music: Works, Performances, and Recordings in Classical, Rock, and Jazz Music’
Faculty-Research Dinner, Trinity University (2006)
‘Art and the Aesthetic: Some Axes to Grind’
Oberlin Colloquium in Philosophy, Oberlin College (2006)
‘“Write this Down!”: The Aesthetic Implications of Memento’
Thinking on the Boundaries: The Availability of Philosophy in Film and Literature. Seventh Annual Comparative Literature Conference, University of South Carolina (2005)
‘All Play and No Work: The Ontology of Jazz’
Department of Philosophy, Trinity University, San Antonio, TX (2005)
Commentator on Jenefer Robinson’s ‘Expression in Music’
American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division Meeting (2004)
Refereed
‘Conceptual Projects and Pornography’
American Society for Aesthetics, Annual Meeting (2009)
‘How to Do Ontology of Art?’
American Society for Aesthetics, Annual Meeting (2008)
‘Julian Dodd’s Works of Music’
American Society for Aesthetics, Annual Meeting (2007)
‘Fundamentalism, Scepticism, and Higher-Level Musical Ontology’
American Society for Aesthetics, Pacific Division Meeting (2007)
‘All Play and No Work: The Ontology of Jazz’
American Society for Aesthetics, Annual Meeting (2006)
‘Working Backwards: Memento and the Ontology of Popular Cinema’
Society for the Philosophic Study of the Contemporary Visual Arts (2006)
‘In Defense of Musical Ontology’
American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division Meeting (2005)
‘In Defense of Musical Ontology’
American Society for Aesthetics, Annual Meeting (2005)
‘Works and Other Art Objects’
American Society for Aesthetics, Annual Meeting (2004)
‘The Ontology of Rock Music’
American Society for Aesthetics, Annual Meeting (2003)
Comments on Susan Purviance’s ‘The Character of Moral Beauty’
Midsouth Philosophy Conference (2003)
‘Against the Ubiquity of Narrators’
American Society for Aesthetics, Annual Meeting (2002)
‘A Minimalist Theory of Narrators’
NEH Summer Institute: Art, Mind, and Cognitive Science (2002)
‘The Illusion of Realism in Film’
American Society for Aesthetics, Annual Meeting (2001)
‘Authentic Recording Practice’
American Society for Aesthetics, Annual Meeting (1998)
‘Studio Performance: For an Audience?’
Australasian Association for Philosophy (NZ Division), Annual Conference (1998)
Awards
2008 Inaugural British Society for Aesthetics Essay Prize, for ‘The Methodology of Musical Ontology: Descriptivism and its Implications’
1999 Choir of the World (as a member of the NZ National Youth Choir)
Grand Prix Slovakia (as a member of the NZ National Youth Choir)
University of Auckland Arts and Cultural Blue in Choral Singing
University of Auckland Tutor Training Certificate
Professional development
2008 Participant, Arché Summer School on Philosophical Methodology (University of St Andrews, Scotland)
Extracurricular Activities
2008 Guest member, San Antonio Chamber Choir
2006 Guest member, San Antonio Chamber Choir
2003-04 Thomas Circle Singers
2002-03 Concertmaster, University of Maryland Repertoire Orchestra
Guest conductor, University of Maryland Chorale
2000 Guest conductor, University of Maryland Chamber Singers
1999 Guest conductor, New Zealand National Youth Choir
1997-99 New Zealand National Youth Choir
1993-99 Auckland University Singers
Auckland Dorian Choir
Recordings
Choir of the World (New Zealand National Youth Choir: Trust)
Winds that Whisper (New Zealand National Youth Choir: Trust)
Enzso2 (New Zealand National Youth Choir: Sony)
New Zealand Choral Music (Auckland University Singers: Kiwi)
Sing a Song of Sixpence (Auckland Dorian Choir: Ode)