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Jerrold Levinson (born 11 July 1948[1] in Brooklyn) is distinguished university professor of philosophy at the University of Maryland, College Park.[2] He is particularly noted for his work on the aesthetics of music, as well as for his search for meaning and ontology in film, art and humour.

Jerrold Levinson
Born (1948-07-11) July 11, 1948 (age 73)
Alma materMassachusetts Institute of Technology (BS)
University of Michigan (PhD)
AwardsInternational Prize of the Società Italiana d'Estetica
EraContemporary philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
InstitutionsUniversity of Maryland, College Park
ThesisProperties, Qualities, and Categoriality (1974)
Doctoral advisorKendall Walton and Jaegwon Kim
Main interests
Philosophy of Art

Education and career


Levinson started his studies in 1965 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he gained a BS Degree in Philosophy and Chemistry in 1969.[3] He earned his Ph.D. in philosophy at the University of Michigan in 1974, under the supervision of Jaegwon Kim and Kendall Walton.[4]

During 1974–1975, he was visiting assistant professor at SUNY Albany. In 1976 he became assistant professor at the University of Maryland, was promoted to associate professor in 1982 and full professor in 1991. In 2004 he was accorded the title of Distinguished University Professor. He has also been visiting professor at other US institutes,[5] including the Johns Hopkins University and Columbia University. He has also held visiting appointments in other countries, such as England (University of London and University of Kent), New Zealand (University of Canterbury), France (Université de Rennes), Belgium (Université Libre de Bruxelles), Portugal (Universidade de Lisboa) and Switzerland (Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana). During 2010-2011 he held an International Francqui Chair [6] at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium), and in 2011 received the Premio Internazionale of the Società Italiana d'Estetica.

In 2003, Levinson co-directed a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute, Art, Mind, and Cognitive Science, and during 2001-2003 was President of the American Society for Aesthetics.[7]


Philosophical work


Levinson's interest in the aesthetics of music led to an examination of musical ontology from a historical-contextual perspective, and of performance with an emphasis on performing means. He has posited theories of evaluating music and has considered the legitimacy of emotional response in musical appreciation. Within his study of performance he has also examined the distinctness of performing and critical interpretation.[4]

Levinson advocates the position that music has the same relation to thought as does language; i.e., if language is an expression of thought, so is music. This is particularly revealed in his analysis of Wittgenstein's ideas on the meaning in music:

"What Wittgenstein is underscoring here about the appreciation of music is this. Music is not understood in a vacuum, as a pure structure of sounds fallen from the stars, one which we receive via some pure faculty of musical perception. Music is rather inextricably embedded in our form of life, a form of life that is, as it happens, essentially linguistic. Thus music is necessarily apprehended, at least in part, in terms of the language and linguistic practices that define us and our world."[8]

This raises interesting points in the debate on absolute music.


Bibliography


Books:[9]

Articles/papers:[9][10]


References


  1. Publications, Europa (2003). International Who's Who of Authors and Writers 2004. Psychology Press. ISBN 978-1-85743-179-7.
  2. "Jerrold Levinson | Department of Philosophy". www.philosophy.umd.edu. Retrieved 2020-03-03.
  3. Publications, Europa (2003). International Who's Who of Authors and Writers 2004. Psychology Press. ISBN 978-1-85743-179-7.
  4. The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, edited by S. Sadie & J. Tyrell, 2nd ed., London, 2001, [permanent dead link]
  5. Schellekens, Elisabeth; Goldie, Peter (2011-10-13). The Aesthetic Mind: Philosophy and Psychology. OUP Oxford. ISBN 978-0-19-161951-9.
  6. Fondation Francqui
  7. "Notes on Contributors". The British Journal of Aesthetics. 57 (3): 247. 2017-11-07. doi:10.1093/aesthj/ayx025. ISSN 0007-0904.
  8. Jerrold Levinson (Fall 2003). "Musical Thinking". Journal of Music and Meaning: vol. 1, section 2.
  9. University of Maryland: Department of Philosophy
  10. Search JSTOR


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