"The Philosophical Fugue: Understanding the Structure and Goal of Heidegger's Beiträge" (2003)

"'Even Better than the Real Thing'?: Postmodernity, the Triumph of the Simulacra, and U2" (2006)

Iain Thomson, Ph.D.

University of New Mexico

Professor of Philosophy
(faculty page)

"Jean Baudrillard: Philosopher of the Mash-up - In Memoriam" (2007)

 "Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari Interview with Carlo Simula" (2005)

"Loops of Perception: Sampling, Memory, and the Semantic Web" (2003)

"Dead Simple: Marshall McLuhan and the Art of the Record" (2010)

Paul D. Miller, a.k.a. DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid

 European Graduate School (Saas-Fee, Switzerland)

Professor of Music Mediated Art
 (faculty page)

“Philosophy of New Jazz: Reconstructing Adorno” (2007)

“A Reflection on the Dionysian Spirit of Music in Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy ”  (2006)

“Spatial Aesthetics of Contemporary Music and Urban Culture” (2009)

Dustin Garlitz

University of South Florida

Department of Philosophy

“Rock ‘n’ Recording: The Ontological Complexity of Rock Music” (1998)

Hans-Herbert Kögler, Dr. Phil.

University of North Florida

Professor and Chair
Department of Philosophy
(faculty page)

"Music, Fire, and Evolution" (2010)

"On Defining Music" (forthcoming 2012)

Philosophy of Music Books (1994-2012)

Stephen Davies, Ph.D.

University of Auckland (New Zealand)

Distinguished Professor of Philosophy
(faculty page)

"Seeing Jazz: Introduction" (1997)

Robert O'Meally, Ph.D.

Columbia University in the City of New York

Zora Neale Hurston Professor of English and Comparative Literature

"Musical Formalism and Political Performances" (2009)

Jonathan A. Neufeld, Ph.D.

College of Charleston (South Carolina)

Assistant Professor of Philosophy
(faculty page)

“Progressive Listening, or Listening as Improvisation: The Case of The Shaggs" (2008)

 “Thresholds: Jazz, Improvisation, Heterogeneity, and Politics in Postmodernity” (2008)

“Becoming-Still: Perspectives on Musical Ontology after Deleuze and Guattari” (2003)

“Pushing the Popular, or, Toward a Compositional Popular Aesthetics” (2006)

"Gesture, Pulsion, Grain: Barthes’ Musical Ontology" (2008)

Michael David Székely, Ph.D.

Temple University (Philadelphia, PA)

"Dominant Positions: John Coltrane, Michel Foucault, and the Politics of Representation" (2006)

Tracey Nicholls, Ph.D.

Lewis University (Illinois)

Assistant Professor of Philosophy

"'The Greatest Jazz Concert Ever': Critical Discourse, European Aesthetics,
and the Legitimization of Jazz" (2009)

Mark Laver, Ph.D.

University of Guelph (Canada)

Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
Improvisation, Community and Social Practice
(faculty page)
 

"Music Without Metaphysics?" (2011)

Christopher Bartel, Ph.D.

Appalachian State University (North Carolina)

Assistant Professor of Philosophy
(faculty page)

"Musical Twofoldness"
(forthcoming 2012)

Bence Nanay, Ph.D.

University of Antwerp (Belgium)

Professor of Philosophy and BOF Research Professor
Co-Director, Centre for Philosophical Psychology
(faculty page)

Peterhouse, University of Cambridge (United Kingdom)

Senior Research Associate 

"Interpreting Music: Beyond Platonism" (2008)

Otávio Bueno, Ph.D.

University of Miami

Professor and Chair
Department of Philosophy
(faculty page)

"Moving Truth: Affect and Authenticity in Country Musicals" (1999)

"Rap's Humanism" (1993)

"Family Values or Homeboy Values: The Question of Arrested Development" (1993)

"Ghetto Music" (1992)

Richard Shusterman, D. Phil.

Florida Atlantic University

Dorothy F. Schmidt Eminent Scholar in the Humanities 
Professor of Philosophy and English
Director, Center for Body, Mind, and Culture
(faculty page)

“Musical Musical Nuance” (2010)

Tiger C. Roholt, Ph.D.

Montclair State University (New Jersey)

Assistant Professor of Philosophy
(personal page)

"Musical Thinking" (2003)

Jerrold Levinson, Ph.D.

University of Maryland

Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy
(faculty page) 

“Jazz Before Jazz: What Did It Mean? – A Portrait of 'Jazz' as Sliding Signifier in the 1920s” (2009)

“Jazz and Modernism: Reflections on a Zeitfrage” (2009)

 “Jazzbandism” (2006)

“Jazz as Decal for the European Avant-Garde” (2004)

Jed Rasula, Ph.D.

University of Georgia

Helen S. Lanier Distinguished Professor of English
(faculty page)

“The Ear of the Behearer – A Conversation in Jazz,”
with Jed Rasula, Ph.D. (2007)

“The Literary Ellington” (2004)

Brent Hayes Edwards, Ph.D.

Columbia University in the City of New York

Professor of English and Comparative Literature

"Microphone Commandos: Rap Music and Political Philosophy" (2005)

"The Expressiveness of African-American Music" (1994)

Bill Lawson, Ph.D.

University of Memphis

Distinguished Professor of Philosophy
(faculty page)

“Minimally Creative Thought” (2011)

“The Role of Imagination in Creativity” (forthcoming)

“A Metaphysics of Creativity” (2008)

Dustin Stokes, Ph.D.

University of Toronto (Canada)

Department of Philosophy
(personal page)

“Natural and Empty Desires: An Epicurean View of Musical Experience” (2005)

Daniel Putman, Ph.D.

University of Wisconsin – Fox Valley

Professor of Philosophy
(faculty page)

William Irwin, Ph.D.

King's College (Pennsylvania)

Professor of Philosophy
(faculty page)

Paul Atkinson, Ph.D.

Cardiff University (United Kingdom)

Distinguished Research Professor of Sociology

School of Social Sciences
(faculty page)

Fred Maus, Ph.D.

University of Virginia

Associate Professor of Music Theory

McIntire Department of Music
(faculty page)

Lecturer
School of Law
(faculty page)

"Vinyl is Dead, Long Live Vinyl: The Work of Recording and Mourning in the Age of Digital Reproduction" (2007)

"Platonic Relations: The Problem of the Loop in Electronic Music" (2002)

"The Sound of Time is not tick tock: The Loop as a Direct Image of Time in Noto's Endless Loop Edition (2) and the Drone Music of Phill Niblock" (2004)

Greg Hainge, Ph.D.

The University of Queensland (Australia)

Reader in French
Associate Professor
School of Languages and Comparative Cultural Studies
(faculty page)

Professor and Canada Research Chair
Department of Sociology
Director, The Technoculture Lab
(faculty page)

"Sound, Sociality, and Music: Challenges to the Aesthetic Vision" (1994)

"A Somatic, 'Here and Now' Semantic: Music, Body, and Self" (2000)

"Thoughts on Shaping Talent and Identity," with Lee Bartel, Ph.D., Joyce Bellous, Ph.D., and Ken Peglar (2000)

"Why Do Humans Value Music?" (2002)

"Symposium: Music's Significance in Everyday Life" (2002)

Wayne Bowman, Ed.D.

New York University

Visiting Professor of Music Education
Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development
 (faculty page)

 "Defending Musical Perdurantism" (2006)

 "Defending 'Defending Musical  Perdurantism'" (2008)

"Ontology of Music" (2011)

"Ontology" (2011)

Ben Caplan, Ph.D.

Ohio State University

Associate Professor of Philosophy
(personal page)

and

Carl Matheson, Ph.D.

University of Manitoba (Canada)

Professor of Philosophy and Department Head
(faculty page)

"Music as Ethical Encounter" (2003)

"The Body in a State of Music," with Kimberly Powell, Ph.D. (2007)

"The Song is You: Symposium on Musical Identity" (2004)

"Musical Experience as Aesthetic: What Cost the Label?" (2006)

"Music, Beauty, and Privileged Pleasures: Situating Fine Art and 'Aesthetic' Experience" (2006)

Wayne Bowman, Ed.D.

New York University

Visiting Professor of Music Education
Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development
 (faculty page)

“Wittgenstein and Haydn on Understanding Music” (2006)

Yael Kaduri, Ph.D.

Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem (Israel)

History and Theory Unit

"The Philosophy of Music" (2007)

"Pulse Demons" (2007)

Eugene Thacker, Ph.D.

The New School (New York, NY)

Associate Professor of Media Studies
(faculty page)

"Musical Presence: Towards a New Philosophy of Music" (2010)

Charles Ford, Ph.D.

University of London (United Kingdom)

School of Advanced Studies

Associate Fellow

Institute for Musical Research

"Musical Improvisation as Action: An Arendtian Perspective" (2007)

Panagiotis A. Kanellopoulos, Ph.D.

University of Thessaly (Volos, Greece)

Assistant Professor of Music Education

Department of Early Childhood Education

“Beautiful Noise” (2006)

Will Swanson

Lancaster University (United Kingdom)

"Artworks and their Revolutionary Potential:
 the Role of Ambiguity" (2011)

"Even when I’m bragging, I’m Being Sincere: Kanye West’s African American Parrhesiate Ethos & Burkean Tragi-Comic Identification (Unmastered version)" (2012)

Antoine Hardy

Saginaw Valley State University (Michigan)  

“Virgil Thomson’s Philosophy of Music” (2006)

Jeffrey Hinzmann

University of South Florida

Department of Philosophy

"Music: The Harbinger of Death" (2008)

 B. W. Dunst

University of South Florida

Department of Philosophy

"It is Musical?: Nietzschean Aesthetics" (2008)

Jose A. Haro

University of South Florida

Department of Philosophy