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Saam Trivedi


Education


Ph.D. University of Maryland, College Park, 1999.
B.A. University of Oxford (Balliol College), 1993.
B.A. (Hons.) University of Delhi (St. Stephen’s College), 1989.

Published Articles

"Idealism and Yogacara Buddhism", Asian Philosophy, 15 (2005): 231-46.


“Artist-Audience Communication: Tolstoy Reclaimed”, Journal of Aesthetic Education, 38 (2004): 38-52.

“The Funerary Sadness of Mahler’s Music”, in Matthew Kieran & Dominic Lopes eds. Imagination, Philosophy, and the Arts, 259-71. New York: Routledge, 2003.

“Against Musical Works as Eternal Types”, British Journal of Aesthetics, 42 (2002): 73-82.

“Expressiveness as a Property of the Music Itself”, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 59 (2001): 411-20.

“An Epistemic Dilemma for Actual Intentionalism”, British Journal of Aesthetics, 41 (2001): 192-206.

“The Emotions: Some Preliminaries”, Journal of the Indian Council of Philosophical Research, 15 (1998): 87-95.


Reviews


Review of Peter Kivy, Introduction to a Philosophy of Music (Oxford: Clarendon, 2002); and Geoffrey Madell, Philosophy, Music and Emotion (Edinburgh U.P., 2002). Philosophical Quarterly, 54, no. 214 (January 2004): 199-202.

Review of Stephen Davies, Themes in the Philosophy of Music (OUP, 2003). Journal of Aesthetic Education, 37, no. 3 (Fall 2003): 108-12.

Review of Dabney Townsend ed. Eighteenth Century British Aesthetics (Baywood, 1999), American Society for Aesthetics Newsletter, 21 (2001): 4-5.

Review of Aaron Ridley, Music, Value and the Passions (Cornell, 1995). Mind, 109 (2000): 387-90.


Professional Presentations


“Eileen John on Literary Value”, invited commentator, 62nd annual meeting of the American Society for Aesthetics, Houston, TX, October 2004.

“Idealism and Yogacara Buddhism”, 2004 Pacific Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Pasadena, CA, March 2004.

“Davies, Pratt, Makkai on Artistic Value”, invited commentator, 61st annual meeting of the American Society for Aesthetics, San Francisco, CA, October 2003.

“Goodman and Wolterstorff on Musical Works”, 60th annual meeting of the American Society for Aesthetics, Miami, FL, November 2002.

“Zemach on Musical Meaning”, invited commentator, Pacific Division meeting of the American Society for Aesthetics, Pacific Grove, CA, March 2002.

“Artist-Audience Communication: Tolstoy Reclaimed”, 59th annual meeting of the American Society for Aesthetics, Minneapolis, MN, October 2001.

“Imagination and Musical Expressiveness”, invited speaker to a conference on “Imagination and the Arts”, University of Leeds, UK, July 2001.

“Musical Expressiveness: Variations on a Theme”, Pacific Division meeting of the American Society for Aesthetics, Pacific Grove, CA, March 2000.

“An Epistemic Dilemma for Actual Intentionalism”, 56th annual meeting of the American Society for Aesthetics, Bloomington, IN, November 1998.


Works in Progress


Imagination, Music , and the Emotions: A Philosophical Study

“Existence and Musical Works”

“Idealism and Yogacara Buddhism”

“A Dilemma Defended”

“Moral Beauty: The Aesthetics of Ethics”

“Indian Aesthetics Revisited: A New Look at the Rasa Theory”

Department of Philosophy

Brooklyn College, City University of New York