Thursday, February 19, 2004
Nussbaum on music and cognition
Posted here Thursday, February 19, 2004 at 9:49:37 AM    

Reading Martha Nussbaum's Upheavals of  Thought, the most recent in her series of books bringing the emotional life into philosophy.

What we need, then, is an account that preserves the cognitive and bolic complexity of musical experience, while refusing to treat the music as a mere means to a cognition that is extramusical in nature. Page 265.


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