Suchergebnisse

List of Illustrations -- Author Biographies -- Preface / Paul Boghossian -- Introduction / Michael Beckerman -- 1. The Enduring Value of Classical Music in the Western Tradition / Ellen Harris and Michael Beckerman -- 2. The Live Concert Experience: Its Nature and Value / Christopher Peacocke and Kit Fine -- 3. Education and Classical Music / Michael Beckerman, Ara Guzelimian, Ellen Harris and Jenny Judge -- 4. Music Education and Child Development / Assal Habibi, Hanna Damasio and Antonio Damasio -- 5. A Report on New Music / Alex Ross -- 6. The Evolving Role of Music Journalism / Zachary Woolfe and Alex Ross -- 7. The Serious Business of the Arts: Good Governance in Twenty-First-Century America / Deborah Borda -- 8. Audience Building and Financial Health in the Nonprofit Performing Arts: Current Literature and Unanswered Questions (Executive Summary) / Francie Ostrower and Thad Calabrese -- 9. Are Labor and Management (Finally) Working Together to Save the Day? The COVID-19 Crisis in Orchestras / Matthew VanBesien -- 10. Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Racial Injustice in the Classical Music Professions: A Call to Action / Susan Feder and Anthony McGill -- 11. The Interface between Classical Music and Technology / Laurent Bayle and Catherine Provenzano -- 12. Expanding Audiences in Miami: The New World Symphony's New Audiences Initiative / Howard Herring and Craig Hall -- 13. Attracting New Audiences at the BBC / Tom Service -- 14. Contemporary Classical Music: A Komodo Dragon? New Opportunities Exemplified by a Concert Series in South Korea / Unsuk Chin and Maris Gothoni -- 15. The Philharmonie de Paris, the Démos Project, and New Directions in Classical Music / Laurent Bayle -- 16. What Classical Music Can Learn from the Plastic Arts / Olivier Berggruen -- Index.

What kind of knowledge could be obtainable just by thinking? Debating the A Priori presents a series of exchanges between two leading philosophers on how to answer this question. In this extended debate, Boghossian and Williamson contribute alternating chapters which develop radically contrasting views and present detailed replies to each other's arguments. A central case is the nature of basic logical knowledge and the justification for basic deductive inferences, but the arguments range widely across epistemology, the philosophy of language, and metaphilosophy. The debate takes in the status of the distinctions between analytic and synthetic and between a priori and a posteriori, as well as problems concerning the conditions for linguistic understanding and competence, and the question of what it might be to grasp a concept or to have an intuition. Both authors explore implications for how philosophy itself works, or should work. The result vividly exposes some of the main fault lines in contemporary philosophy, concerning the relation between reason and experience, the status of basic beliefs, the nature of concepts and intuitions, the role of language in our understanding of the world, how to study knowledge, and what it is to do philosophy. Both authors provide conclusions which sum up their positions and place the arguments in context. Their lively and engaging exchanges allow the reader to follow up-close how a philosophical debatte evolves.