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Roberts, Pendaran (2017) Turning up the volume on the property view of sound. Inquiry, 60 (4). pp. 337-357. doi:10.1080/0020174X.2016.1159979

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Abstract

In the present article, I show that sounds are properties that are not physical in a narrow sense. First, I argue that sounds are properties using Moorean-style arguments and defend this property view from various arguments against it that make use of salient disanalogies between sounds and colors. The first disanalogy is that we talk of objects making sounds but not of objects making colors. The second is that we count and quantify over sounds but not colors. The third is that sounds can survive qualitative change in their auditory properties, but colors cannot survive change in their chromatic properties. Next, I provide a taxonomy of property views of sound. As the property view of sound has been so rarely discussed, many of the views available have never been articulated. My taxonomy will articulate these views and how they are related to one another. I taxonomize sounds according to three characteristics: dispositional/non-dispositional, relational/non-relational and reductive/non-reductive. Finally, mirroring a popular argument in the color literature, I argue that physical views in the narrow sense are unable to accommodate the similarity and difference relations in which sounds essentially stand. I end replying to three objections.

Item Type: Journal Article
Divisions: Faculty of Social Sciences > Philosophy
Journal or Publication Title: Inquiry
Publisher: Routledge
ISSN: 0020-174X
Official Date: 2017
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2017Published
30 March 2016Available
26 February 2016Accepted
18 August 2015Submitted
Volume: 60
Number: 4
Page Range: pp. 337-357
DOI: 10.1080/0020174X.2016.1159979
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
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