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Szu-Yen Lin

Disciplines:
aesthetics
philosophy of music

Summary

Taiwanese philosopher working on the expression theory of music, the ontology of musical works, and aesthetic experience.

Core Contribution

Contributed to debates about whether music can express emotions without representing anything and about the identity of musical works across performances.

Historical Influences

Peter Kivy Jerrold Levinson

Intellectual Lineage

Analytic Aesthetics

Contemporaries & Peers

No recorded contemporaries.

Minds Influenced

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Intellectual Posterity

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