The Royal Musical Association Music and Philosophy Study Group was established in May 2010. Its aim is: To provide a distinctive long-term forum offering opportunities for those with an interest in music and philosophy to share and discuss work, in the hope of furthering dialogue in this area.
We plan to work towards this goal through four courses of activity:
(i) An annual multi-day conference
(ii) A series of smaller events
(iii) A presence at other events
(iv) An on-line presence centered around a website and mailing list
The Group was formed in the wake of a Royal Musical Association Study Day (in association with the British Society of Aesthetics) on the topic of Music and Philosophy, held at King’s College London on the 20th February 2010.
We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Royal Musical Association and the British Society of Aesthetics.
People
The Study Group is currently run by a five person Committee consisting of:
- Prof Julian Dodd (Department of Philosophy, University of Manchester), Treasurer
- Prof Julian Johnson (Department of Music, Royal Holloway University of London), Secretary
- Mr Tomas McAuley (Department of Music, King’s College London), Chair
- Dr Nanette Nielsen (Department of Music, University of Nottingham), Events Coordinator
- Prof Nick Zangwill (Department of Philosophy, Durham University), Communications Officer
There are currently two non-executive postholders:
- Mr Golan Gur (Department of Musicology, Humboldt University of Berlin), Website Editor and International Coordinator (Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Israel)
- Mr Mårten Nehrfors (Department of Music, King’s College London), Conference Administrator (2012)
Advisory Board
- Mark Evan Bonds (Department of Music, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
- Andrew Bowie (School of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Royal Holloway, University of London)
- Malcolm Budd
- Daniel Chua (School of Humanities, The University of Hong Kong)
- Marcel Cobussen (Academy of Creative and Performing Arts, Leiden University)
- Nicholas Cook (Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge)
- Stephen Davies (Faculty of Arts, The University of Auckland)
- John Deathridge (Department of Music, King’s College London)
- Andreas Dorschel (University of Music and Performing Arts Graz)
- Lydia Goehr (Department of Philosophy, Columbia University)
- Cynthia M Grund (Department of Philosophy, University of Southern Denmark at Odense)
- Garry L. Hagberg (Philosophy, Bard College)
- Björn Heile (Department of Music, University of Glasgow)
- Peter Kivy (Department of Philosophy, Rutgers University)
- Jerrold Levinson (Department of Philosophy, University of Maryland)
- Susan McClary (Music Department, Case Western Reserve University)
- Max Paddison (Department of Music, Durham University)
- Michael Spitzer (School of Music, University of Liverpool)
- Hiroshi Yoshida (Graduate School for Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto)