Stephen Davies

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Stephen Davies is affiliated with the following schools: University of Oxford, University of Mary Washington, University of Auckland

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According to Wikipedia, Stephen John Davies is a Distinguished Professor of philosophy at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He mainly writes on aesthetics, particularly the philosophy of music but also works on political philosophy. He is a past president of the American Society for Aesthetics , and the New Zealand division of the Australasian Association of Philosophy .

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Definitions of art (1992) (169)
Musical Works and Performances (2001) (135)
Musical Meaning and Expression (1994) (135)
The expression of emotion in music (1980) (102)
A Companion to Aesthetics (1995) (97)
The Artful Species: Aesthetics, Art, and Evolution (2012) (96)
Philosophical perspectives on music's expressiveness (2001) (90)
Musical Works and Performances: A Philosophical Exploration (2001) (56)
Themes in the Philosophy of Music (2003) (53)
Still building the memex (2011) (48)
Musical Meaning in a Broader Perspective (2001) (46)
Authors' Intentions, Literary Interpretation, and Literary Value (2006) (43)
Artistic Expression and the Hard Case of Pure Music (2006) (41)
Emotions Expressed and Aroused by Music: Philosophical Perspectives (2010) (41)
AUTHENTICITY IN MUSICAL PERFORMANCE (2011) (40)
I Wanna Be Me: Rock Music and the Politics of Identity (2003) (38)
AESTHETIC JUDGEMENTS, ARTWORKS AND FUNCTIONAL BEAUTY (2006) (38)
Empiricism and History (2003) (37)
TRANSCRIPTION, AUTHENTICITY AND PERFORMANCE (1988) (30)
Musical Understandings: and Other Essays on the Philosophy of Music (2011) (28)
Philosophical Perspectives on Art (2007) (26)
Defining Art and Artworlds (2015) (26)
The Cluster Theory of Art (2004) (25)
Infectious Music: Music-Listener Emotional Contagion (2011) (25)
John Cage's 4′33″: Is it music? (1997) (23)
The Aesthetic Relevance of Authors' and Painters' Intentions (1982) (23)
First Art and Art's Definition (1997) (21)
Outsourcing and the voluntary sector: A review of the evolving policy landscape (2011) (21)
Contra the Hypothetical Persona in Music (1997) (21)
The Philosophy of Art (2006) (21)
Two Conceptions of Welfare: Voluntarism and Incorporationism (1997) (20)
On Defining Music (2012) (20)
Non-Western Art and Art's Definition (2010) (19)
11. Why Listen to Sad Music If It Makes One Feel Sad? (1995) (19)
Rock versus Classical Music (1999) (16)
Functional and Procedural Definitions of Art (1990) (16)
Responding Emotionally to Fictions (2009) (16)
"Reckless Walking Must Be Discouraged" : The Automobile Revolution and the Shaping of Modern Urban Canada to 1930 (1989) (15)
Perceiving Melodies and Perceiving Musical Colors (2010) (14)
The Social Condition for Sustainable Technological Innovation (2018) (14)
Political dictionary for Hong Kong (1990) (14)
Behavioral Modernity in Retrospect (2019) (14)
Ontology of Art (2005) (13)
Art and Its Messages: Meaning, Morality, and Society (2001) (13)
Making the connections: contract cleaning and infection control. A report for UNISON (2009) (12)
GENERAL THEORIES OF ART VERSUS MUSIC (1994) (12)
Profundity in instrumental music (2002) (12)
A review of the OFT's Impact Estimation Methods (2010) (12)
Ellen Dissanayake’s Evolutionary Aesthetic (2005) (11)
Truth-Values and Metaphors (1984) (11)
IS MUSIC A LANGUAGE OF THE EMOTIONS (1983) (10)
Reflections On Aesthetic Judgement (2004) (10)
Government policy, recession and the voluntary sector. A report for UNISON (2010) (10)
Why Art Is not a Spandrel (2010) (10)
Art and Essence (2003) (10)
Art and Science: A Philosophical Sketch of Their Historical Complexity and Codependence (2017) (9)
The Evaluation of Music (1994) (9)
Functional Beauty Examined (2010) (8)
Versions of Musical Works and Literary Translations (2007) (8)
Pandemics and the consequences of COVID‐19 (2020) (8)
Music-to-listener emotional contagion (2013) (8)
A dictionary of conservative and libertarian thought (2011) (8)
MUSICAL WORKS AND ORCHESTRAL COLOUR (2008) (8)
Essential Distinctions for Art Theorists (2003) (7)
Building a Business-to-Business Sales Process (2010) (7)
Music understanding and musical kinds (1994) (7)
Flaws and Ceilings: Price Controls and the Damage They Cause (2015) (7)
Organizing networks and alliances: International unionism between the local and the global (2011) (7)
Insolvency and the Enterprise Act 2002 (2003) (6)
Taking stock: the future of our public library service (2008) (6)
The Know-how of Musical Performance (2005) (6)
Is Architecture an Art (2007) (6)
Attributing Significance to Unobvious Musical Relationships (1983) (6)
The Multiple Interpretability of Musical Works (2002) (6)
Basic Income, Labour, and the Idea of Post-Capitalism (2017) (5)
RESPONSE TO ROBERT STECKER (1999) (5)
Beardsley and the Autonomy of the Work of Art (2005) (5)
Assessment of the impact of competition authorities' activities (2013) (5)
The Hypothetical Intentionalist's Dilemma: A Reply to Levinson (2010) (5)
Interpreting Contextualities (1996) (5)
Cross‐Cultural Musical Expressiveness: Theory and the Empirical Programme (2011) (5)
The Rationality of Aesthetic Responses (1983) (5)
Bob, Little Jim, Bluebottle, and the Three Stooges (2011) (4)
AUTHENTICITY IN PERFORMANCE: A REPLY TO JAMES O. YOUNG (1988) (4)
Kripke, Crusoe and Wittgenstein (1988) (4)
Apprenticeships: A Firm Foundation (2008) (4)
Representation in Music (1993) (4)
TOWARDS THE REMORALISATION OF SOCIETY (1991) (4)
In Name or Nature? Implementing International Environmental Procedural Rights in the Post-Aarhus Environment: A Finnish Example (2007) (4)
Deﬁnitions of art (2005) (4)
Edwin Chadwick and the genesis of the English welfare state (1990) (4)
Questioning the distinction between intra- and extra-musical meaning: Comment on "Towards a neural basis for processing musical semantics" by Stefan Koelsch. (2011) (4)
Teaching both the management and the molecular biology of sickle cell disease (1991) (4)
Emotional Contagion from Music to Listener (2011) (3)
Violins or Viols? - A Reason to Fret (1990) (3)
Kivy on Auditors' Emotions (1994) (3)
The Mess Inside: Narrative, Emotion, and the Mind (2013) (3)
Music Matters: Responding to Killin, Ravasio, and Puy (2017) (3)
The people’s inquiry into the public library service. A report for UNISON (2010) (3)
Performing Musical Works Authentically: A Response to Dodd (2013) (3)
Blackwell Companion to Aesthetics (2009) (3)
The expression theory again (2008) (3)
Are Organophosphate Pesticides Involved in the Causation of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (1994) (3)
Evolution, Aesthetics, and Art: An Overview (2017) (3)
Bovine Spongiform Encephelopathy (1990) (2)
Replies to Arguments Suggesting that Critics' Strong Evaluations Could not be Soundly Deduced (1990) (2)
GLOBALISATION IS GOOD (2000) (2)
Effectiveness in Local Government (1981) (2)
Philosophy, Music and Emotion (2003) (2)
Win The Pictorial Relation is not Reference (2004) (2)
ROSCAs and Credit Unions : Is Modern Japan Missing Something? (2003) (2)
The Idea of Form: Rethinking Kant's Aesthetics (2004) (2)
Art and Aesthetic Behaviors as Possible Expressions of our Biologically Evolved Human Nature (2014) (2)
Trade, Mercantilism and Nation‐Building (2011) (2)
Life is a Passacaglia (2009) (2)
A Dictionary of Conservative and Libertarian Thought (Routledge Revivals) (2012) (2)
A Note on Feagin on Interpreting Art Intentionalistically (1987) (2)
A Defence of the Institutional Definition of Art (1988) (2)
Artists' intentions and artwork meanings: Some complications (2013) (2)
Classical Liberalism in the Liberal Party Since 1886 (2012) (2)
Authenticity in Western Classical Music (2001) (1)
The Attitude of the Right Side is that of Calm Unbelief (1989) (1)
The arts and sciences debate (1993) (1)
Beveridge revisited : new foundations for tomorrow's welfare (1986) (1)
Analytic Philosophy and Music (2011) (1)
Insolvency practice and the Human Rights Act 1998 : a special bulletin (2000) (1)
Moral Arguments on the Export of Live Sheep (1986) (1)
On Richard Wollheim (2004) (1)
Modest Actual Mentalism: Questions and Comments (2014) (1)
National Money of Account, with a Second national Money or Local Monies as Means of Payment: A Way of Finessing the Zero interest Rate Bound. (2005) (1)
Ontario and the Automobile, 1900 - 1930: Aspects of Technological Integration (1987) (1)
Book Review Dominic Mciver Lopes. Beyond Art. Oxford University Press, 2014, iii + 249 pp., $35.00 cloth. (2014) (1)
Propositional Attitudes In Fiction (2004) (1)
Music, fire, and evolution (2010) (1)
The Transformation of Biography in Empirical History (2003) (1)
The Evolutionary Value of an Aesthetic Sense (2013) (1)
Musical Colors and Timbral Sonicism (2011) (1)
Environment and the Arts: Perspectives on Environmental Aesthetics (2004) (1)
Law and order in Stirlingshire, 1637-1747 (1984) (1)
MOZART'S REQUIEM? A REPLY TO LEVINSON (1992) (1)
The Past and Present of "Local Currencies"; with Especial Reference to England and Japan (2003) (1)
The Aesthetics of Human Beauty (2012) (1)
Distancing, not embracing, the Distancing-Embracing model of art reception (2017) (1)
Krakow Book Forum: Stephen Davies’s The Artful Species (2014) (1)
THE PATH WELL TAKEN: MAKING THE RIGHT DECISIONS ABOUT RISKS FROM TERRORISM (2009) (1)
The Beautiful in Bali (2017) (1)
Bali and the management of culture (2017) (1)
The History and Politics of Government Spending and Debt (2012) (0)
The Ship’s Name (2013) (0)
Performance interpretations of musical works (2006) (0)
The Philosophy of Art Ed. 2 (2016) (0)
UNISON response to convention consultation. A report for UNISON Cymru. (2009) (0)
How ancient is art (2015) (0)
La vita a ritmo di passacaglia (2007) (0)
Trying to define art as the sum of the Arts (2008) (0)
Humans’ Aesthetic Appreciation of Nonhuman Animals (2012) (0)
Aesthetics and Subjectivity: From Kant to Nietzsche (2004) (0)
Ian Cecil Robert Rowley 1926-2009: Obituary (2010) (0)
The Impact of Estimation Methodologies on Distributed Systems (2019) (0)
Peter Kivy , Music Alone: Philosophical Reflections on the Purely Musical Experience . Reviewed by (1990) (0)
How Might the Aesthetic, Art, and Evolution be Related? (2012) (0)
Japan's Deflation and the Feasibility of Negative Interest Rates (2003) (0)
Notes on Contributors/Sur les Collaborateurs (2010) (0)
Political History — The Master Topic (2003) (0)
The Perfection of Empirical History (2003) (0)
Introduction to a Philosophy of Music (2008) (0)
Selling the Right to Immigrate 1 By (2011) (0)
Symposium: Can Westerners Understand the Art of Other Cultures and What Might They Learn by Doing So? (2018) (0)
Sovereigns, Sovereignty and the Treaty of Waitangi (1992) (0)
Lessons from LETS (2004) (0)
Analytic Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art (2019) (0)
Rules and Order without the State (2016) (0)
The case study approach to eCommerce growth (2006) (0)
Aesthetics in Cross-Cultural Perspective (2016) (0)
STEPHEN DAVIES Rock versus Classical Music (2008) (0)
The Aesthetic Appreciation of Nature (2004) (0)
The Artist and the Bengalese Finch (2016) (0)
The Possibility of Apolitical Fiscal Policy : Recent UK Experience (2005) (0)
The Empirical History of Institutions (2003) (0)
A comparison of Japanese and UK welfare (1994) (0)
The Final Leg—Towards Journey’s End (2013) (0)
True Interpretations (2011) (0)
Innovations in biphase turbine technology (1998) (0)
Authenticity and Non‐Western Music (2001) (0)
Elements of Musical Works (2001) (0)
T. Anderberg, T. Nilstun & I. Persson, eds. , Aesthetic Distinction: Essays presented to Göran Hermerén on his 50th Birthday . Reviewed by (1989) (0)
Notations: Stephen Davies (2011) (0)
Interpretation and Construction, Art, Speech, and the Law (2004) (0)
Music, Definitions of (2019) (0)
A RESPONSE TO McFEE'S RESPONSE (1990) (0)
Book Review: Marion Smiley, Moral Responsibility and the Boundaries of Community: Power and Accountability from a Pragmatic Point of View (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992), pp. x, 286, US$20.75 (paper) (1993) (0)
Art and Freedom (2004) (0)
TRADE, M ERCANTILISM A ND NA T ION-BUILDING (2011) (0)
Cosmetics and Makeup (2019) (0)
Treating depression in patients with physical disease. (2006) (0)
Arts as Adaptations (2012) (0)
The Suppression of Private Provision (1987) (0)
Origins, Purchase and Commissioning (2013) (0)
Literary Interpretation: Current Models and a New Departure (review) (2011) (0)
A Re-appraisal of the Keying’s Likely Shape (2013) (0)
History of Ideas — The Empirical Turn (2003) (0)
Market ‘Chaos’ Defies Intellectuals (1985) (0)
How Fast Could She Go (2013) (0)
Introduction: Cross-Currents in Philosophical and Dance Traditions (2021) (0)
Art as a Technology (2012) (0)
Microsoft Word-Steve Davies_Impact Assessment.docx (2013) (0)
The Keying’s Dimensions and Shape (2013) (0)
Probably not the last word on the end of art (2001) (0)
Economic History and Empiricism (2003) (0)
EDITORIAL: T HE P OLITICAL ECONOMY O F PROTECTIONISM (2011) (0)
The Experience of Music (2003) (0)
The Nature of Fiction (review) (2011) (0)
General Theories of Art as an Adaptation and the Origins of Art (2012) (0)
Physical education in secondary schools (2012) (0)
The Psychology of Art and the Evolution of the Conscious Brain (2007) (0)
On Moral Personhood: Philosophy, Literature, Criticism and Self-Understanding (review) (2011) (0)
The Creation of Empirical History (2003) (0)
The Nature of Art (2012) (0)
Oxfam, Malthus and the Worst Prediction in Economic History (2011) (0)
Journey’s End: The London Stay (2013) (0)
Academic Vocabulary: A Comparison of Contextualized and Form-Focused Learning (2004) (0)
What Kind of Vessel Was the Keying (2013) (0)
And Everything Nice (2016) (0)
A National Joint Council (NJC) for Wales? A report for the UNISON Cymru/Wales Local Government Group Executive (2008) (0)
Music and the Iniffable (2004) (0)
The Biology of Art (2019) (0)
Music and Metaphor (2011) (0)
EDITORIAL: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF PROTECTIONISM (2011) (0)
2. The Sharp End of Justice (1990) (0)
Evolution Reconsidered : Stephen Davies on the Possible Connections between Art and Evolution (2013) (0)
BARRIERS TO GROWTH: ENGLISH ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FROM THE NORMAN CONQUEST TO INDUSTRIALISATION, by Eric L.JonesPalgrave Macmillan (2020), 153 pp. ISBN: 978–3030442736 (hb, £74.99); 978–3030442743 (e‐book, £59.99) (2020) (0)
The Aesthetics of Adornments (2014) (0)
A PRÉCIS OF THE ARTFUL SPECIES (2014) (0)
The Decline and Triumph of Classical Liberalism: Part II (2011) (0)
Replies to My Critics (2014) (0)
How Christmas decorations reflect our obsession with adornment (2019) (0)
Evolutionary Approaches to Literature (2015) (0)
The Moore River Catchment Forum 2000 : Thinking Beyond Today : A Series of Essays by the Participants (2002) (0)
Così's Canon Quartet (2008) (0)
Introduction: Views from Different Seas (2013) (0)
Aesthetics and MusicBy Andy Hamilton (2009) (0)
The Theory of Evolution (2012) (0)
Davis, Donald Finlay. Conspicuous Production: Automobiles and Elites in Detroit, 1899-1933. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1988. Pp. XXI, 282. 15 black and white plates, tables. $29.95 (U.S.) (1989) (0)
Analytic philosophy and music: Stephen Davies (2011) (0)
Construction subcontracting and international trade union cooperation: What role for European industrial relations? (2008) (0)
Capitalism: Intellectiials at Bay (1984) (0)
Art as a Spandrel (2012) (0)
On Understanding Works of Art: An Essay In Philosophical Aesthetics (review) (2011) (0)

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