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Author:   Ludger Jansen (PTH Brixen, Italy) ,  Thorben Petersen (University of Bremen, Germany)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
ISBN:  

9781032593173

ISBN 10:   1032593172
Pages:   284
Publication Date:   26 December 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Table of Contents

1. Music Groups and Social Ontology Ludger Jansen and Thorben Petersen 2. The Will to Gig. The Social Ontology of Bands Ludger Jansen 3. Once More, With Feeling! A Joint Commitment Account of Musical Groups Michel Lara 4. Bands, Personas, and The Evaluative Import of (Some) Social Ontology Ley David Elliette Cray 5. A Radical Interpretation of Bands as Variable Embodiments Daniele Porello 6. On the Persistence of Alternative Rock Bands Giulia Lasagni 7. The Ontology of The Band Enrico Terrone 8. Listen to The Band! A Study on The Ontology of Popular Music Groups Thorben Petersen 9. Teaming Up: What Do Collaborations in Rap Music Tell Us About Musical Groups? Daniel Weger 10. The Handover Band: Constitutive and Temporal Ontology of Classical Ensembles Peter Simons 11. Group Survival Factors Anna Strasser and Joshua Rust 12. Music Groups as Rational Agents Jörg Phil Friedrich 13. On Band’s Collective Authorship of Songs Nicolas Kleinschmidt

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Ludger Jansen is Cusanus Professor of Philosophy at the Philosophical-Theological College in Bressanone (Italy) and supernumerary professor at the University of Rostock (Germany), where he is principal investigator of a research project on the philosophy of biomimetics. His main research interests are metaphysics, ontology and the philosophy of science. Thorben Petersen teaches philosophy at the University of Bremen, Germany. He obtained his PhD from The University of Bremen with a work on the nature of time. Thorben has published on various topics in the philosophy of time, including papers in Metaphysica and Philosophical Studies and a review paper in The Australasian Journal of Philosophy.

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