Luzio, Hugo: Sonicismo Tímbrico e Instrumentalismo

_Philosophica: International Journal for the History of Philosophy_ 23 (46):135-147. 2015The problem concerning the ‘individuation conditions of musical works’ is pressing and actual in the metaphysical discussion, in the philosophy of music. In this essay we address two entirely different perspectives: ‘timbric sonicism’, as formulated by Julian Dodd and ‘instrumentalism’, as sketched by Stephen Davies. We attempt to show that there are strong reasons to consider that the objections to anti-ins