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According to Wikipedia, Peter Kivy was professor emeritus of musicology and philosophy at Rutgers University. He studied particularly the philosophy of music. Biography Kivy received a B.A. summa cum laude at the University of Michigan in 1956, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He earned an M.A. in philosophy in 1958 also from the University of Michigan, an A.M. in musicology at Yale University in 1960, and a PhD in philosophy from Columbia University in 1966. He first taught at Brooklyn College from 1966–67, He then joined the faculty at Rutgers, first at the Newark campus, where he became full professor in 1976, and then in 1978 moved to the university's main campus, in New Brunswick. He taught there for the remainder of his career, except for one year as a visiting professor at University of California, Santa Barbara.

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Music Alone: Philosophical Reflections on the Purely Musical Experience (1991) (275)
Introduction to a philosophy of music (2002) (177)
Sound Sentiment: An Essay on the Musical Emotions, including the complete text of The Corded Shell (1989) (156)
Authenticities: Philosophical Reflections on Musical Performance (1998) (138)
The Performance of Reading (2006) (85)
The Corded Shell: Reflections on Musical Expression (1981) (75)
The fine art of repetition (1994) (68)
Stimulus context and satiation. (1956) (67)
Philosophies of arts : an essay in differences (1997) (62)
The Fine Art of Repetition: Essays in the Philosophy of Music. (1994) (59)
New Essays On Musical Understanding (2001) (57)
PLATONISM IN MUSIC: A KIND OF DEFENSE (1983) (52)
The Seventh Sense (2003) (51)
The Blackwell Guide To Aesthetics (2003) (51)
Feeling the musical emotions (1999) (51)
The Seventh Sense: Francis Hutcheson and Eighteenth-Century British Aesthetics (2003) (38)
Mattheson as Philosopher of Art (1984) (36)
An Inquiry concerning Beauty, Order, Harmony, Design (1974) (33)
Sound and Semblance: Reflections on Musical Representation. (1985) (32)
Secondary reinforcement as affected by reward schedule and the testing situation. (1958) (31)
HUME'S STANDARD OF TASTE: BREAKING THE CIRCLE1 (1967) (29)
Antithetical Arts: On the Ancient Quarrel Between Literature and Music (2009) (28)
What Makes "Aesthetic" Terms Aesthetic? (1975) (27)
The Possessor and the Possessed: Handel, Mozart, Beethoven, and the Idea of Musical Genius (2001) (27)
Osmin's Rage: Philosophical Reflections on Opera, Drama, and Text (1988) (26)
Music in the Movies: A Philosophical Enquiry (1997) (24)
Speaking of art (1973) (22)
Charles Darwin on Music (1959) (20)
Musical Thoughts and Afterthoughts (1976) (19)
Science and Aesthetic Appreciation (1991) (19)
Jokes Are a Laughing Matter (2003) (18)
Opera talk: A philosophical ‘phantasie’ (1991) (18)
Mood and Music: Some Reflections for Noël Carroll (2006) (16)
What Really Happened in the Eighteenth Century: The ‘Modern System’ Re-examined (Again) (2012) (16)
The Seventh Sense: A Study of Francis Hutcheson's Aesthetics and Its Influence in Eighteenth-Century Britain (1976) (15)
Music and the Liberal Education (1991) (15)
Sound And Semblance (1984) (15)
Music, language, and cognition (2007) (15)
The Performance of Reading: An Essay in the Philosophy of Literature (2006) (15)
Music, language, and cognition : and other essays in the aesthetics of music (2007) (14)
The Worlds of Art and the World: Platonism in Music (1983) (12)
De Gustibus: Arguing About Taste and Why We Do It (2015) (11)
Critical Study: Deeper than Emotion (2006) (11)
How to Forge a Musical Work (2000) (10)
Aesthetic Aspects and Aesthetic Qualities (1968) (10)
What was Hanslick Denying (1990) (10)
Versions and forgeries: A response to Kivy (2002) (9)
On the Banality of Literary Truths (1997) (9)
Is Music an Art (1991) (9)
HUME'S NEIGHBOUR'S WIFE: AN ESSAY ON THE EVOLUTION OF HUME'S AESTHETICS (1983) (8)
Aesthetic Concepts: Some Fresh Considerations (1979) (8)
Essays on the history of aesthetics (1994) (8)
The Blackwell Guide to Aesthetics: Kivy/The Blackwell (2008) (8)
Child Mozart as an Aesthetic Symbol (1967) (8)
Ars Perfecta: toward perfection in musical performance? (2006) (8)
On the Historically Informed Performance (2002) (8)
Once-Told Tales: An Essay in Literary Aesthetics (2011) (7)
Auditor's emotions: contention, concession and compromise (1993) (7)
A failure of aesthetic emotivism (1980) (7)
Composers and ‘composers’: A response to David Rosen (1992) (6)
Thomas Reid and the Expression Theory of Art (1978) (6)
Paraphrasing Poetry (for Profit and Pleasure) (2011) (6)
Moodology: A Response to Laura Sizer (2007) (6)
The sense of beauty and the sense of art Hutcheson's place in the history and practice of aesthetics (1995) (6)
Francis Hutcheson: An Inquiry Concerning Beauty, Order, Harmony, Design (1973) (6)
Aesthetics and Rationality (1975) (5)
Thomas Reid's Lectures on the fine arts (1973) (5)
Osmin's rage : philosophical reflections on opera, drama, and text, with a new final chapter (1990) (5)
Another Go at Musical Profundity: Stephen Davies and the Game of Chess (2003) (5)
"Lectures on the Fine Arts": An Unpublished Manuscript of Thomas Reid's (1970) (4)
Mainwaring's Handel: Its Relation to English Aesthetics (1964) (4)
FICTIONAL FORM AND SYMPHONIC STRUCTURE: AN ESSAY IN COMPARATIVE AESTHETICS (2009) (4)
Moodophilia: A Response to Noël Carroll and Margaret Moore (2007) (4)
Speech, song and the transparency of medium: A note on operatic metaphysics (1994) (3)
Hutcheson's Idea of Beauty: Simple or Complex? (1992) (3)
The Truth of Analysis (2015) (3)
Another Go at the Meaning of Music: Koopman, Davies, and the Meanings of « Meaning » (2007) (3)
Hutcheson and Hume (2003) (3)
Breaking the Rule (2001) (3)
It's Only Music: So What's to Understand? (1986) (2)
The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Reid: Reid’s Philosophy of Art (2004) (2)
Armistice, but No Surrender: Davies on Kivy (1994) (2)
Sounding Off: Eleven Essays in the Philosophy of Music (2012) (2)
On The Concept of the “Historically Authentic” Performance (1988) (2)
The Experience of Reading (2009) (2)
In Defense of Musical Representation: Music, Representation and the Hybrid Arts (1994) (2)
Continuous time and interrupted time: Two-timing in the temporal arts (2004) (2)
Philosophies of Arts: An Essay in Differences (1999) (2)
Something I've Always Wanted to Know about Hanslick (1988) (2)
Melville’s Billy and the Secular Problem of Evil: The Worm in the Bud (1980) (2)
Reading is Believing (2011) (2)
Do so as Well (2015) (2)
The Perception of Beauty in Hutcheson's First Inquiry: A Response To James Shelley (2007) (2)
Voltaire, Hume, and the Problem of Evil (2011) (2)
The Logic of Taste: Reid and the Second Fifty Years (2003) (1)
The Sense of “Sense” (2003) (1)
Hume’s Taste and the Rationalist Critique (2016) (1)
The Aesthetics of Literature (2011) (1)
Realistic Song in the Movies (2013) (1)
A New Music Criticism (1990) (1)
Hume’s Standard of Taste: Breaking the Circle (2019) (1)
God and Aesthetics (2003) (1)
Socrates' Discovery: Some Historical Reflections (1981) (1)
The Test of Time: An Essay in Philosophical Aesthetics (1986) (1)
Mozart and Monotheism: An Essay in Spurious Aesthetics (1983) (1)
Greatness of Mind (2001) (1)
Attention, Ritual, and the Additive Strategy (2009) (0)
Intentional Forgeries and Accidental Versions: A Response to John Dilworth (2002) (0)
Seeing (And so Forth) is Believing (Among Other Things); On the Significance of Reid in the History of Aesthetics (1989) (0)
Robinson Paul. Opera and Ideas: From Mozart to Strauss . New York: Harper and Row, 1985; reprinted Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1986. 279 pp. (1989) (0)
P. T. Raju, “Scepticism and Its Place in Śaṅkara’s Philosophy” (1937) (2011) (0)
Remarks on the Varieties of Prejudice in Hume's Essay on Taste (2011) (0)
Shostakovich's Secret? (2009) (0)
Giving the Rule (2001) (0)
The Case of (Digital) Wagner (2021) (0)
Rationalist Aesthetics in the Age of Hutcheson (2003) (0)
Authorial Intention and the Pure Musical Parameters (2012) (0)
Hume’s Dilemma (2015) (0)
Hearing the Emotions (1988) (0)
Two Concepts of Taste (1973) (0)
Push-pin and Poetry (2015) (0)
End of an Era (2003) (0)
A Ground Common to All (2015) (0)
Review of Leonard Meyer. 1989 Style and Music: Theory, History and Ideology . Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press (2017) (0)
Varieties of Aesthetic Experience (2003) (0)
The Right Phenomenology (2015) (0)
Appendix: Paraphrasing Poetry (2011) (0)
Common Sense and the Sense of Beauty (2003) (0)
The Genius and the Child (2001) (0)
Action and Agency (2009) (0)
So near, so Far (2001) (0)
Continuous Time and Interrupted Time (2011) (0)
Hume's “Sentiments” In the Essay on Taste (2003) (0)
The Condition-Governed Model (1973) (0)
Empty Pleasure to the Ear (2009) (0)
Odd Men Out (2001) (0)
Beyond Aesthetics: Foreword by Peter Kivy (2001) (0)
Leonard Meyer. Style and Music: Theory, History and Ideology. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1989. xi, 376 pages. Studies in the Criticism and Theory of Music. (1992) (0)
Back to Square One (2015) (0)
Duck-Rabbit and Other Perplexities (1973) (0)
Preface to the Two Inquiries (1973) (0)
The Truth of Evaluation (2015) (0)
The Little Man from Salzburg (2001) (0)
The Aesthetic Shrug (2015) (0)
Guest Artist Lecture: 1991-03-07 - Peter Kivy, professor of philosophy (1991) (0)
Listening: A Response to Alperson, Davies, and Howard (1993) (0)
Rhythmic Gesture in Mozart: “Le Nozze di Figaro” and “Don Giovanni” by Wye Jamison Allanbrook. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1983. xii + 396 pp. $30.00. (1985) (0)
Treatise I: An Inquiry Concerning Beauty, Order, Harmony, Design (1973) (0)
The Logic of Taste: The First Fifty Years (2003) (0)
Are Things Always What They Seem (1973) (0)
SECONDARY SENSES AND AESTHETIC CONCEPTS: A REPLY TO PROFESSOR TILGHMAN (1981) (0)
On the Recent Remarriage of Music to Philosophy (2017) (0)
The Beautiful versus the Good (in the Eighteenth Century) (2015) (0)
Twice‐Told Tales and More (2011) (0)
The Ontology of Art (2017) (0)
Seeing is Believing (2011) (0)
What It's All About (2011) (0)
Letter from Peter Kivy (1962) (0)
Music, Language and Cognition: Which Doesn’t Belong? (2004) (0)
Monroe Remembered: Aesthetics: Problems in the Philosophy of Criticism on Its Fiftieth Anniversary (2010) (0)
The Triumph of Association (2003) (0)
The Words, Singing, and Transparency of Medium: The Metaphysics of Opera (2013) (0)
Thinking of Others: On the Talent for Metaphor by cohen, ted (2010) (0)
The Failure of Formalism and the Failure of its Foes (2009) (0)
The Other Shoe: Some Thoughts for Christopher Peacocke (2009) (0)
Structure Aesthetics and Novelistic Structure (2011) (0)
The Truth of Interpretation (2015) (0)
Mood and Music (2009) (0)
The Saxon or the Devil (2001) (0)
Discussion: Hutcheson's Idea of Beauty: Simple Or Complex? (1992) (0)
First the Music, and Then the Words (2009) (0)
Genius and the Creative Imagination (2013) (0)
Art Rethought: The Social Practices of Art By Nicholas Wolterstorff Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. Pp. xvi + 331. H/b £27 ISBN: 978-0198747758 (2016) (0)
Mozart's Skull: Looking for Genius (in All the Wrong Places) (2009) (0)
Mozart's Second Childhood (2001) (0)
Time Out of Mind (2001) (0)
An Unlicked Bear (2001) (0)
The Sense of “Beauty” (2003) (0)
The Ethical, the Aesthetic, and the Artistic (2011) (0)
The Aesthetic Property (2011) (0)
Book Review:Kant and the Claims of Taste. Paul Guyer (1981) (0)
Are Aesthetic Terms Ungovernable (1973) (0)
The Point of it All: An Answer to Professor Hyde (1978) (0)
Just Before Hutcheson (2003) (0)
Sound and semblance : reflections on musical representation : with a new afterword by the author (1991) (0)
Art and Objectivity (1973) (0)
Introduction: Aesthetics Today (2008) (0)
Sound Sentiment: A Reply to Donald Callen (1983) (0)
Common Sense and the Error Theory (2015) (0)
The Dilemma of Emma (2018) (0)
Stephen Davies: Musical Meaning and Expression (1995) (0)
Is Bad Taste Immoral (2015) (0)
The Sense of “Beautiful” (2003) (0)
FISH'S CONSEQUENCES (1989) (0)
The Rise of Association (2003) (0)

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