Looking for Profundity (in All the Wrong Places)

Abstract

It does not happen very often that one short paper opens an entire new subfield of a philosophical discipline. But this is exactly what Peter Kivy's 1990 paper "The Profundity of Music" achieved. In a couple of years after Kivy's paper appeared, all philosophers of music, who previously, like Charles Swann in Marcel Proust's novel

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