Style and Supervenience

The Paideia Archive: Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy 1:35-40 (1998)
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Cope’s Computers and Musical Style describes a computer program that allegedly can represent and replicate musical styles solely on the basis of compositions that have been entered into it. If this claim is correct, then it must be that an oeuvre’s stylistic characteristics locally supervene on its textual features, which roughly means that its stylistic properties are entirely determined by its textual properties. In my paper I argue that stylistic properties do not locally supervene on textual properties, and thus that neither Cope’s program nor any other that essentially works like it can represent or replicate styles.

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reprint Douven, Igor (1999) "Style and supervenience". British Journal of Aesthetics 39(3):255-262

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