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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”
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