In Other Shoes: Music, Metaphor, Empathy, Existence

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In fifteen essays - one new, two newly revised and expanded, three with new postscripts - Kendall L. Walton wrestles with philosophical issues concerning music, metaphor, empathy, existence, fiction, and expressiveness in the arts. These subjects are intertwined in striking and surprisingways. By exploring connections among them, appealing sometimes to notions of imagining oneself in shoes different from one's own, Walton creates a wide-ranging mosaic of innovative insights. Cover In Other Shoes Copyright Contents Preface 1. Empathy, Imagination, and Phenomenal Concepts 2. Fictionality and Imagination—Mind the Gap 3. Two Kinds of Physicality in Electronic and Traditional Music Postscripts to “Two Kinds of Physicality in Electronic and Traditional Music” 4. Thoughtwriting—In Poetry and Music 5. “It’s Only a Game!”: Sports as Fiction 6. Restricted Quantification, Negative Existentials, and Fiction 7. Existence as Metaphor? Postscript to “Existence as Metaphor?” 8. Projectivism, Empathy, and Musical Tension 9. Listening with Imagination: Is Music Representational? 10. Metaphor and Prop Oriented Make-Believe 11. Understanding Humor and Understanding Music 12. What Is Abstract about the Art of Music? 13. The Presentation and Portrayal of Sound Patterns Postscripts to “The Presentation and Portrayal of Sound Patterns” 14. Fearing Fictions 15. Spelunking, Simulation, and Slime: On Being Moved by Fiction Acknowledgments Index