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CANADIAN JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY
Volume 48, Issue 2, Pages 266-291Publisher
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1080/00455091.2017.1357993
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Ontology of musical works; classical Western art music; fictionalism; Canberra Plan; philosophical naturalism
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The debate concerning the ontological status of musical works is perhaps the most animated debate in contemporary analytic philosophy of music. In my view, progress requires a piecemeal approach. So in this article I hone in on one particular musical work concept - that of the classical Western art musical work; that is, the work concept that regulates classical art-musical practice. I defend a fictionalist analysis - a strategy recently suggested by Andrew Kania as potentially fruitful - and I develop a version of such an analysis in line with a broad commitment to philosophical naturalism.
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