In Other Shoes: Music, Metaphor, Empathy, Existence [Paperback]

In fifteen essays-one new, two newly revised and expanded, three with new postscripts-Kendall L. Walton wrestles with philosophical issues concerning music, metaphor, empathy, existence, fiction, and expressiveness in the arts. These subjects are intertwined in striking and surprising ways. By exploring connections among them, appealing sometimes to notions of imagining oneself in shoes different from one's own, Walton creates a wide-ranging mosaic of innovative insights.

Preface
Chapter 1. Empathy, Imagination and Phenomenal Concepts
Chapter 2 Fictionality and Imagination: Mind the Gap
Chapter 3. Two Kinds of Physicality, in Electronic and Acoustic Music
Postscripts to Two Kinds of Physicality, in Electronic and Acoustic Music
Chapter 4. Thoughtwriting-in Poetry and Music
Chapter 5. It's Only a Game : Sports as Fiction
Chapter 6. Restricted Quantification, Negative Existentials, and Fiction
Chapter 7. Existence as Metaphor?
Postscript to Existence as Metaphor?
Chapter 8. Projectivism, Empathy, and Musical Tension
Chapter 9. Listening with Imagina tion: Is Music Representational?
Chapter 10. Metaphor and Prop Oriented Make-Believe
Chapter 11. Understanding Humor and Understanding Music
Chapter 12 What Is Abstract About the Art of Music?
Chapter 13. The Presentation and Portrayal of Sound Patterns
Postscripts to The Presentation and Portrayal of Sound Patterns
Chapter 14. Fearing Fictions
Chapter 15. Spelunking, Simulation and Slime: On Being Moved by Fiction
Acknowledgements
Index

One of the amazing things about this volume is how much ground it covers, and how much of this ground is integrated within its many individual papers. In the Preface Walton lists a dozen topics that he covers, and it is striking how many papers discuss several of these topics. For their richness alone each of the essays collected here is worth reading -- and rereading. --Notre Dame Philosophical ReviewslC3