Stephen Davies Academic cv August 2009Form 01StdCV01
University of Auckland /NAME:STEPHEN DAVIES
CURRENT POSITION:DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR
DEPARTMENT:PHILOSOPHY
FACULTY:ARTS
EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS:
1971/72B.A. (Hons 1st Class); Monash University, Australia.
1975M.A. (First); Monash University, Australia
1978Ph.D. in Philosophy, Birkbeck College, University of London.
DISTINCTIONS / AWARDS:
Elected Vice-President of the International Association of Aesthetics, 2013-
Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 2010-
President, American Society for Aesthetics, 2007-08.
Inaugural Fellow of the New Zealand Academy of the Humanities, 2007-
Hood Fellowship, University of Auckland, 2007.
University of Auckland Writing Fellowship, 2006.
Elected to Vice Presidency of American Society for Aesthetics, 2005-06.
Co-editor, aesthetics, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2002-
Elected Trustee of the American Society of Aesthetics, 2001-04.
President of Australasian Association of Philosophy (N.Z. Div.), 2001.
MEMBERSHIPS
Fellowships
2009- Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand
2007- Inaugural Fellow of the New Zealand Academy of the Humanities
Editorial boards, advisory boards, and editorships
2010- Member advisory board of Royal Musical Association Music and Philosophy Study Group
2008- Member editorial board Rivista di Estetica
2007-08 Co-editor second edition Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Aesthetics.
2007- Consulting editor, Philosophy of Music Education Review.
2006-2008 Member Advisory Board for the "Philosophical Gourmet Report", edited by Brian Leiter
2006- Member of inaugural editorial board of Philosophy Compass.
2002- Consulting editor, Res Musica
2002- Co-editor, aesthetics, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
2001- Member of editorial board of the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism.
1995. Editor, special number on aesthetics, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 77 (2).
SUPERVISIONS:
PhD
2013-Lin Szu-YenPrimary supervisor
2011-Justin HornPrimary supervisor
2011-Daniel WilsonPrimary Supervisor
2011-Soong Chung-Chen Primary supervisor
2010-Bruce SheridanCosupervisor
Imagination, Mind, and Creativity
2008-2013Zach NorwoodCosupervisor
Representation and Emotion as Foundations of Aesthetic Value awarded
2006-2011Douglas Nyce Cosupervisor
New Zealand Primary Music Education: a promise broken: A comparison of the de jure and de facto philosophies of music education of New Zealand primary, intermediate and middle schools awarded
2005-07Murray Sheard Cosupervisor
Locke & Propertyawarded
2005Richard ViscovicCosupervisor
Nihilismdnc
2000-03Grant TavinorCosupervisor
Fiction and emotionsawarded
1999-2004Matthew Jack Cosupervisor
Exploring the Artwork-world: Perichoretic Rehearsals of the Divine Encounter awarded
1996-98Allan BeeverCosupervisor
Wagner's Aesthetics of Musicawarded
1992-95Vaughn GuenterCosupervisor
Aesthetics of the Human Bodyawarded
1992-93Nick BeckingsaleCosupervisor
Fictionawarded
1989-93Vanya KovachCosupervisor
Kant’s aesthetics and ethicsawarded
MA
2013-14Sarah KiernanCosupervisor
2010-11Tea DomenichiniSole supervisor
Theories of Humourawarded
2010-11Daniel WilsonSole supervisor
The Ontology of Theatreawarded
2009Terry GydeSole supervisor
The Day the Music Died … dnc
2005-06Aaron Erb Sole supervisor
Kripke on rules and meaningawarded
2006 Jenn NeilsonSole supervisor
The Paradox of Horrorawarded
2001Craig MatthewsSole supervisor
Ontology of Danceawarded
2001Shelley Turner Sole supervisor
The Paradox of Horrorawarded
1999Grant TavinorSole supervisor
Art and the Emotionsawarded
1998-99Robert HoSole supervisor
The Aesthetics of Foodawarded
1998Andrew KaniaSole supervisor
Recorded performancesawarded
1997-99Douglas NyceSole supervisor
Susanne Langer’s Philosophy of Musicawarded
1997-98Amanda MobbsSole supervisor
Creativityawarded
1995-96Caroline BeggsCosupervisor
Danto on the end of artawarded
1995-96Glenn KirkerCosupervisor
A Rage Against the Dying of the Lightawarded
1987-88 Paul Windeatt Sole supervisor
Perceptual Indistinctness & the Identities of Artworksawarded
BA (Hons)
2009David MerrySole supervisor
The Emotions in Written and Musical Worksawarded
2008Tea DominichiniSole supervisor
An Underestimated Cognitive Elementawarded
2008Juan Manuel Gomez Sole supervisor
Hume's 'Of the Standard of taste'awarded
2005Graeme RutherfordSole supervisor
Musical Understandingdnc due to illness
2002Scott ButlandSole supervisor
The Spirit of the Sublime in Musicawarded
Conference papers (1996-2013 only):
2013
The Adorned and Adorning Species
AAPNZ Philosophy Conference, Auckland, December 8-12
The Artful Species: Author meets critics with Justine Kingsbury (University of Waikato) and Nicolas Bullot (Macquarie University)
AAPNZ Philosophy Conference, Auckland, December 8-12
The Artful Species: Author meets critics with Ajit Varki (University of California San Diego), Stephanie Ross (University of Missouri St. Louis) and John Hyman (Queen's College, Oxford).
American Association for Aesthetics, 71st annual meeting, October 30-November 2, San Diego
The Artful Species: Author meets critics with Mohan Matthen (University of Toronto), Wilfried van Damme (Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society), and Joseph Carroll (University of Missouri St. Louis).
International Association for Aesthetics, July 21-27, Krakow, Poland.
'Musical Embodiment'
Royal Music Association Conference, July 19-20, King's College London.
Invited keynote.
'Persistent Emotions'
Rethinking feeling: the Nature and Importance of Affect and Emotion, April 18-19, California State University Fullerton. Invited keynote.
The Artful Species: Author meets critics with Susan Feagin (Temple University) and Theodore Gracyk (Minnesota State University Moorhead).
American Society for Aesthetics Pacific, April 3-5, 2013, Pacific Grove, California
The Artful Species: Author meets critics with Noël Carroll (SUNY Graduate School) and Peter Godfrey-Smith (SUNY Graduate School).
American Philosophical Association Pacific, March 27-31, San Francisco
2012
'Are Animals Aesthetes and Artists?'
16th Evolutionary Biology Meeting, Marseilles, France, September 18-21. Invited address.
'Macbeth as Opera,'
Celebrating the Work of Peter Goldie, Manchester, September 14-15
'The Aesthetics of Adornments,'
Aesthetics towards Everyday Life: East and West, Changchun, China, 2-3 September. Invited address.
'Kinds of mind/brain modularity and their relevance to connecting art to evolution,'
European Society for Aesthetics, Universidade do Minho, Braga & Guimarães, Portugal, 25th - 27th of June
'Kinds of mind/brain modularity and their relevance to connecting art to evolution,'
American Society for Aesthetics, Pacific Division Annual Meeting, Monterey, April 11-13
'Are Art Behaviors Universal?'
Invited Symposium: Art and Evolution, American Philosophical Association (Pacific), Seattle, April 4-7
2011
'Is Music an Evolutionary Adaptation?'
American Society for Aesthetics 69th Annual Meeting, Tampa, October 26-29
'Bali and the Management of Culture,'
Unsettled Boundaries: Philosophy, Art and Ethics East/West, Marquette University, Milwaukee, October 12-14
'Landscape Aesthetics and Evolutionary Psychology,'
American Philosophical Association (Pacific Division), San Diego, April 20-23
2010
'Evolutionary Psychologists on Landscape Aesthetics,'
Australasian Association of Philosophy (New Zealand Division), Hamilton, December 5-9
'Cultural Appropriation,'
American Society for Aesthetics 68th Annual Meeting, Victoria, October 27-30
'Human Beauty and Evolutionary Psychology,'
18th International Congress of Aesthetics, Beijing, August 9-13
'Music and Metaphor,'
British Wittgenstein Society (invited address), Southampton, June 28-29
'The Human Face of Beauty,'
American Society for Aesthetics, Pacific Division Annual Meeting, Monterey, April 7-9
'Music, Fire, and Evolution,'
American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division Annual Meeting (invited address), San Francisco, March 31-April 3
'Humans' Aesthetic Appreciation of Non-human Animals,'
Aesthetics and History of Science Workshop (invited address), Dunedin, February 25-26
2009
'Music and Metaphor,'
The Soul in the Machine: Towards a Theory of Symbolic Expressivity, Freie Universität Berlin, December 10-13, 2009
invited address
'Commentary on 'Projecting Sound: Theory of Musical Representation",'
American Society for Aesthetics 67th Annual Meeting, Denver, October 21-24.
'Functional Beauty Discussed,'
American Philosophical Association-Pacific Division, Vancouver, April 8-12.
invited address
'Author Meets Critics: Patel's Music, Language, and the Brain,'
American Society for Aesthetics, Pacific Division Annual Meeting, Monterey, April 15-17
'Music-to-listener Emotional Contagion,'
The Emotional Power of Music, Brocher Foundation, Hermance-Geneva, Switzerland, June 25-27
invited address
2008
'Bob, Little Jim, Bluebottle, and the Three Stooges,'
Solomon Memorial Conference, Austin, Texas, Feburary 15-16
invited address
'Bob, Little Jim, Bluebottle, and the Three Stooges,'
American Society for Aesthetics, Pacific Division Annual Meeting, Monterey, March 26-8.
'Why Art is not a Spandrel,'
British Society for Aesthetics Conference, St Edmunds, Oxford, September 5-7.
'Responding Emotionally to Fictions,'
Presidential address, American Society for Aesthetics 66th Annual Meeting, Northampton, November 5-8.
2007
'Creativity on Display,'
American Society for Aesthetics, Pacific Division Annual Meeting, Monterey, March 28-30.
'Life is a Passacaglia,'
American Society for Aesthetics, Eastern Division Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, April 13-14.
featured plenary session
'Cross-cultural Sensitivity to Music's Expressiveness,'
International Society for Research on the Emotions, Queensland, July 11-15.
'Cross-cultural Sensitivity to Music's Expressiveness,'
Aesthetic Psychology, Durham, September 23-25.
invited address
'Humans' Aesthetic Appreciation of Non-human Animals,' American Society for Aesthetics, 65th Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, November 7-10.
2006
'The Musical Transmission of Emotions,'
American Society for Aesthetics, Pacific Division Annual Meeting, Monterey, March 29-31.
'Musical Understandings,' Music and Philosophy: Emotion and Reason
Sibelius Academy, Helsinki, June 5-7
invited keynote address,
'Infectious music: music-listener emotional contagion', Empathy: an International Interdisciplinary Conference, Cal State Fullerton, June 22-23.
'The Origins of Balinese Legong,' Disputations and Debates: A Workshop in Philosophy,
University of Auckland, October 7-8.
'Authors meet Critics: Two Introductory Aesthetics Texts',
American Society for Aesthetics, 64th Annual Meeting, Milwaukee, October 25-28
'Infectious music: music-listener emotional contagion', Evolution and the Emotions Workshop,
ANU, Canberra, November 17
'Evolution and the Value of Literature', Literature and Evolution: Possibilities, Problems, Prospects,
University of Auckland, December 9-11
2005
'Authors' Intentions and Literary Interpretation.'American Philosophical Association, 79th Pacific Division Meeting, San Francisco, March 22-7, 2005
invited address
'Response to Stecker's 'The Aesthetic: Changing Roles and Changing Conceptions',' March 31, American Society for Aesthetics, Pacific Division Annual Meeting, Asilomar, Pacific Grove, March 30-April 1, 2005.
'The Role of Non-Balinese in the Preservation of Legong' April 13, Music and Dance Performance: Cross-Cultural Approaches, (AHRC Research Centre and British Forum for Ethnomusicology), April 12-15, 2005, School of Oriental and African Studies, London
'More in Defence of Musical Ontology,' Saturday, October 22, American Society for Aesthetics, 63rd Annual Meeting, Providence, Rhode Island, October 19-22, 2005
2004
'In the Graveyard with Stravinsky.' Opera symposium, Southern Cross University, Ballina, NSW, April 11.
invited plenary address,
'Versions of Musical Works.' AAP Conference (July 4-9), Sth Molle Island, Queensland, July 5
'Aesthetic Judgments and Functionality,' September 10, invited plenary address, British Society of Aesthetics, Oxford, September 9-12
'Performance Interpretations of Musical Works', September 18, invited plenary address, Music: Interpretation, Performance, and Perception, Sigtunastiftelsen, Sweden, September 16-19
'Response to Justin London (Authenticity in 'Outsider' Music: No Commercial Potential, No Lessons Required), Ted Gracyk (Authenticities Within Commercial Music), and John Covach (Authenticity at the Borders of Style)', three hour panel on October 29 at the 62nd Annual Meeting of the American Society for Aesthetics (October 27-30), Houston, Texas
2003
'Reply to Andrew Kania's 'The Ontology of Rock music'.' American Society for Aesthetics, 61st Annual meeting, October 1-4, 2003, San Francisco.
'On the Possibility of Defining Art.' Australasian Association of Philosophy (New Zealand Division), December 7-10, 2003.
2002
'A Commentary on Theodore Gracyk's I Wanna be Me: Rock Music and the Politics of Identity' American Society for Aesthetics, Pacific Division, Asilomar, March 27-29
'The Know-how of Musical Performance' European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music, April 5-8, Liège, Belgium
'A Philosophical Perspective on Expression in Music Performance,' 7th International Conference on Music Perception & Cognition, July 17-21, Sydney
'Stephen Davies' Musical Works and Performances', November 1, American Society for Aesthetics 60th Annual Meeting, Miami, October 31-November 3. [In this two hour session I responded to discussion of my book by Fred Maus (University of Virginia), Alan Goldman (University of Miami), and Gary Iseminger (Carleton College).]
2001
'What is the sound of one piano plummeting?' American Society for Aesthetics, Pacific Division, Asilomar
'Comments on Monique Roelofs's "Relational Conditions For Aesthetic Exchange " and Leslie Bostrum's "What happens in the studio?" 59th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Aesthetics, Minneapolis Minnesota, October 24-27
'Ontologies of Musical Works'Australasian Association of Philosophy (NZ Division), Auckland, December 2-7
Presidential address,
2000
Chair, Program Committee American Society for Aesthetics Annual Meeting at Reno Nevada
'What is the sound of one piano plummetting?' Australasian Association of Philosophy (NZ Division), December, Wellington
1999
'Pierre Menard and the Ontology of Art' Conference on Jose Luis Borges, University of Auckland
1998
'Goodman on Works and Notations' Philosophy of Music, King's College, London, April 21-22
invited plenary address,
'Response to Leibowitz and Stecker' 56th Annual meeting of the American Society for Aesthetics, Bloomington, Indiana, November 4-8
'Authentic Performance' American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, Washington DC, December 27-30
invited address
1997
'Rock versus Classical Music' Australasian Association of Philosophy, Auckland
1996
Commentator on John Fisher's "Ontology of Recordings," American Society for Aesthetics (Pacific Division) at Asilomar, April 3-6.
'Defining Art Cross-Culturally,' Harkness Symposium, Christchurch, May 10-11
invited address
Chair, 'Art & Anthropology' American Society for Aesthetics National Meeting at Montreal
Invited lectures and colloquia (1996-2013 only):
2013
"The Aesthetics of Adornments"
Department of Cognitive Science and the ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders (CCD), Macquarie University, October 11
Symposium on The Artful Species, Department of Cognitive Science and the ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders (CCD), Macquarie University, October 10, with lead questions from Bill Thompson (Psychology), Nicolas Bullot (CCD), Rob Ross (CCD), Richard Menary (Philosophy), and Regina Fabry (from Germany).
'The Aesthetics of Adornments,'
Department of Anthropology, University of Auckland, May 1
2011
'Literary Darwinism,'
University of British Columbia, September 30
2009
'Humans' Aesthetic Appreciation of Non-Human Animals,'
Texas Tech University, Lubbock, April 23
'Is Art a Spandrel?'
Texas Tech University, Lubbock, April 24
2008
'Humans' Aesthetic Appreciation of Non-human Animals,'
Victoria University of Wellington, March 13
'Balinese Gong Kebyar'.
University of California, Santa Barbara, October 9
'Why Art is not a Spandrel'.
University of California, Santa Barbara, October 27
2007
'Infectious Music: Music-Listener Emotional Contagion,' Jacobs School of Music, University of Indiana at Bloomington
'Timbral Sonicism Rejected,' Trinity University, San Antonio
'Representation in Photographs and Pictures,' Trinity University, San Antonio
'Musical Works and Orchestral Color,' Amherst College, Amherst
'Perceiving Melodies and Perceiving Orchestral Colors,' William & Mary College, Williamsburg
'Perceiving Melodies and Perceiving Orchestral Colors,' Temple University, Philadelphia
'Life is a Passacaglia,' Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster
'Humans' Aesthetic Appreciation of Non-human Animals,' Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster
'Humans' Aesthetic Appreciation of Non-human Animals,' Waikato University
2006
'Representation in photographs and pictures,' University of Canterbury
'Life is a Passacaglia,' University of Canterbury
2004
'Ellen Dissanayake's Evolutionary Aesthetic.' Joint seminar, University of South Australia and Flinders University, Adelaide
'Aesthetic Judgments and Functionality,' Victoria University of Wellington
'Aesthetic Judgments and Functionality,' University of Southampton University
'Versions of Musical Works and Literary Translations,' Sheffield University
'Versions of Musical Works and Literary Translations,' University of California, San Diego
'Aesthetic Judgments and Functionality,' San Diego State University
2001
'The Ontology of Musical Works' Trinity University, San Antonio
'The Ontology of Musical Works' Texas Tech University, Lubbock
'The Ontology of Musical Works' The Open University, Milton Keynes
'What is the Sound of One Piano Plummeting?' University of Durham, Durham
'The Experience of Music' University of Durham, Durham
'The Ontology of Musical Works' York University, York
1998
'What Makes a Performance of Beethoven's Fifth a Performance of Beethoven's Fifth (and not of another work that sounds the same)?' University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado
'Goodman on Works and Notations' King's College London
1997
'Rock versus Classical Music' NZ Branch of International Association of Music Libraries
1996
'Contra The Hypothetical Persona in Music' University of Colorado at Boulder
'Musical Scores And Other Notations' University of Colorado at Boulder
'Discussion of Definitions of Art' University of Colorado at Boulder
'Authenticity In Non-Western And Tourist Music' University of Colorado at Boulder
'Discussion of Musical Meaning and Expression' University of Colorado at Boulder
'Interpreting Contextualities' University of Miami
'Interpreting Contextualities' University of Florida, Gainseville
'John Cage's 4'33" - Is It Music?' Florida State University, Tallahassee
'Interpreting Contextualities' Tulane University, New Orleans
'Interpreting Contextualities' Rice University, Houston
'Discussion of "Why Listen to Sad Music?'' University of Texas at Austin
'So You Want To Sing With The Beatles? Too Late' University of Texas at Austin
'Discussion of "Authenticity in Music"' Trinity University, San Antonio -
'Authenticity In Non-Western And Tourist Music' Trinity University, San Antonio
'Authenticity In Non-Western And Tourist Music' University of Texas, Arlington
'John Cage's 4'33" - Is It Music?' Texas Tech University, Lubbock
'Interpreting Contextualities' University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
'John Cage's 4'33" - Is It Music?' -Arizona State University, Tempe
'So You Want To Sing With The Beatles? Too Late' San Jose State University, San Jose
'Contra The Hypothetical Persona in Music' University of California, Berkeley
'John Cage's 4'33" - Is It Music?' University of California, Santa Barbara
'John Cage's 4'33" - Is It Music?' Uppsala University, Uppsala
'So You Want To Sing With The Beatles? Too Late' - Uppsala University, Uppsala
'John Cage's 4'33" - Is It Music?' Lund University, Lund
'First Art and Art's Definition' Lund University, Lund
'Non-Western Art and Art's Definition' University of Hull, Hull
'John Cage's 4'33" - Is It Music?' University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews
'Authenticity in performance' Goldsmith College, University of London -
'First Art and Art's Definition' University College, University of London
'So You Want To Sing With The Beatles? Too Late' Mt. Holyoke, Sth Hadley, Mass.
'John Cage's 4'33" - Is It Music?' University of Maryland, College Park
'John Cage's 4'33" - Is It Music?' Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant
'Non-Western Art and Art's Definition' University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
'John Cage's 4'33" - Is It Music?' University of Illinois at Chicago
'Non-Western Art and Art's Definition' University of Wisconsin at Madison
'Non-Western Art and Art's Definition' Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota
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