[Philosophy 1020] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (71 pages long!)

• School: Western University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: Philosophy 1020
• Professor: Dennis Klimchuk

Document Summary

Metaphysics: section of philosophy concerned with the questions of what the world is made of: are there things, what kinds of things there are, are there events, what is causation, etc. Question of ontology is the question of what kinds of things are there in the world. It doesn"t seem to be a material thing, but material things are usually involved: a score, instruments, musicians, the physical processes that produce the experience of sound, etc. A musical piece is somehow essentially connected to a score. First: a distinction between music and eg. painting. Music is allographic: we can"t make sense of the distinction between the original and the forgery of a piece of music (of the piece that is, not eg. the handwritten score) Painting, by contrast, is autographic: paintings can be forged. Second: if a piece of art is allographic, then it is essentially connected to a set of instructions for making it.