Plenary panellists include: Professor \;Jeremy Begbie (Duke)\, Professor Paul Boghossian (NYU)\, Professor Lawrence \;Kramer (Fordham)\, Professor Jenefer Robinson (Cincinnati).
\nThe RMA \;Music and Philosophy Study Group warmly invites paper \;submissions for this two-day international conference\, to be held in London on 19-20 \;July 2013\, with some pre-conference \;activities on 18 July. The event\, the third \;of an annual series of conferences run by the Study Group\, will offer an \;opportunity for those with an interest in music and philosophy to share and \;discuss work\, in the hope of furthering dialogue in this area. Paper \;submissions on all topics related to the area of music and philosophy are \;welcome\, but in particular those relating to this \;year&rsquo\;s optional theme of &lsquo\;Embodiment \;and the Physical&rsquo\;. Collaboration between persons from different disciplines &ndash\; \;including between musicologists and philosophers and/or between \;composers/performers \;and more theoretically-minded scholars &ndash\; would be especially welcomed.
\nPhilosophers and musicologists have \;provided various ways of thinking through music in relation to its concrete \;particularity as sound\, and its bodily nature in performance and hearing. In \;particular\, they have paid attention to the phenomenology of listening\; to the \;physical nature of sound and its relation to our perceptual experience\; and to \;the bodily aspects of musical \;performance and their inscription in the gestures \;of musical scores. What exactly is the relation between sound and music? How is \;the body involved in the experience of sound\, and of music? \;When answering such \;questions\, what can philosophers learn from musicologists\, and vice versa? \;Music is often conceived very abstractly\, and music as &lsquo\;embodied thought&rsquo\; both \;poses \;challenges and opens up new possibilities. This year&rsquo\;s (optional) theme \;seeks to encourage further philosophical and musicological debate about music \;within the area of &lsquo\;embodiment and the \;physical&rsquo\;.
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In addition to papers relating to the \;conference theme\, topics of interest might include (but are not limited to):
\;Proposals \;are invited for:
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Please submit proposals by email in a word \;document attachment:
conference2013@musicandphilosophy.ac.uk
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The deadline for proposals is Friday 8 \;February.
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All paper submissions will be considered \;by the programme committee:
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Professor Julian Dodd
Professor Julian Johnson
Tomas McAuley
Dr Nanette Nielsen
Professor Nick Zangwill
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Reasonably priced university accommodation will be available.
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More information is available on the \;conference website: \;