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In Other Shoes: Music, Metaphor, Empathy, Existence

  • Author: Walton, Kendall L.
Those familiar with Walton's work will welcome this collection as an addition to their libraries on fiction, make-believe, and empathy, but overall, the collection covers a medley of interconnected... More…

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Contents

  • Preface
  • Chapter 1. Empathy, Imagination and Phenomenal Concepts
  • Chapter 2 Fictionality and Imagination: Mind the Gap
  • Chapter 3. Two Kinds of Physicality, in Electronic and Acoustic Music
  • Postscripts to Two Kinds of Physicality, in Electronic and Acoustic Music
  • Chapter 4. Thoughtwriting-in Poetry and Music
  • Chapter 5. It's Only a Game : Sports as Fiction
  • Chapter 6. Restricted Quantification, Negative Existentials, and Fiction
  • Chapter 7. Existence as Metaphor?
  • Postscript to Existence as Metaphor?
  • Chapter 8. Projectivism, Empathy, and Musical Tension
  • Chapter 9. Listening with Imagina tion: Is Music Representational?
  • Chapter 10. Metaphor and Prop Oriented Make-Believe
  • Chapter 11. Understanding Humor and Understanding Music
  • Chapter 12 What Is Abstract About the Art of Music?
  • Chapter 13. The Presentation and Portrayal of Sound Patterns
  • Postscripts to The Presentation and Portrayal of Sound Patterns
  • Chapter 14. Fearing Fictions
  • Chapter 15. Spelunking, Simulation and Slime: On Being Moved by Fiction
  • Acknowledgements
  • Index