ABSTRACT

When it comes to social objects, like money, eliminativism or reductionism are a clearly plausible starting point. But this prima facie plausibility of eliminativism/conventionalism is not so straightforward in the case of aesthetics objects, where various forms of realism have been defended and where an eliminativist view is not the first thing that comes to mind. When it comes to musical works, since they typically have multiple instances, a specific approach is needed, where specific arguments relevant to this kind of (allegedly existing) entities need to be put forward. At the end of the day, we will see that eliminativism is the best way to go here as well.