Musicality: Instinct or Acquired Skill?
Topics in Cognitive Science (forthcoming)
| Abstract | Is the human tendency toward musicality better thought of as the product of a specific, evolved instinct or an acquired skill? Developmental and evolutionary arguments are considered, along with issues of domain-specificity. The article also considers the question of why humans might be consistently and intensely drawn to music if musicality is not in fact the product of a specifically evolved instinct | |||||||||
| Keywords | No keywords specified (fix it) | |||||||||
| Categories | ||||||||||
| Options |
|
|||||||||
Download options| PhilPapers Archive |
Upload a copy of this paper Check publisher's policy on self-archival Papers currently archived: 5,653 |
| External links |
 |
| Through your library | Configure |
Similar books and articlesHenkjan Honing & Annemie Ploeger (forthcoming). Cognition and the Evolution of Music: Pitfalls and Prospects. Topics in Cognitive Science.
Dennis M. Senchuk (1991). Against Instinct: From Biology to Philosophical Psychology. Temple University Press.
Siegfried Dewitte (2006). Money and the Autonomy Instinct. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 29 (2):184-185.
J. Keeping (2006). How Does the Bird Build its Nest? Instincts as Embodied Meaning. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 5 (2).
Dietrich Stout (2002). Thinking and Doing in Cognitive Archaeology: Giving Skill its Due. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 25 (3):421-422.
Markus Wild (2008). Marin Cureau de la Chambre on the Natural Cognition of the Vegetative Soul: An Early Modern Theory of Instinct. Vivarium 46 (3):443-461.
Simon J. Hampton (2006). Can Evolutionary Psychology Learn From the Instinct Debate? History of the Human Sciences 19 (4):57-74.
Lantz Miller (2012). If We Have a Music Instinct, for Which Music? Book Review Essay of Philip Ball,The Music Instinct: How Music Works and Why We Can't Do Without It(London: The Bodley Head, 2010). Philosophy of Music Education Review 20 (2):177-190.
Dario D. Salvucci (2013). Integration and Reuse in Cognitive Skill Acquisition. Cognitive Science 37 (4).
C. E. Ayres (1921). Instinct and Capacity--I: The Instinct of Belief-in-Instincts. Journal of Philosophy 18 (21):561-565.
Philip Ball (2010). The Music Instinct: How Music Works and Why We Can't Do Without It. Oxford University Press.
George H. Kyme (1970). The Value of Aesthetic Judgments in Music in the Assessment of Musicality of Elementary School Children. Berkeley,University of California.
Daniela Lenti Boero & Luciana Bottoni (2008). Why We Experience Musical Emotions: Intrinsic Musicality in an Evolutionary Perspective. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 31 (5):585-586.
Analytics
Monthly downloads |
Added to index2012-09-08Total downloads8 ( #122,951 of 548,984 )Recent downloads (6 months)1 ( #63,327 of 548,984 )How can I increase my downloads? |
My notes
Discussion
