It is an ancient, and very pervasive, idea that music expresses emotion. Apart from the copious literature to this effect contributed by composers, musicologists, and philosophers , there is also solid empirical evidence from psychological research, reviewed in chapters of this book (e.g. Gabrielsson & Lindström, this volume; Juslin, this volume), that listeners often agree rather strongly abou...

The argument moves from the justification of the general obligation to obey the law to that of the general obligation to pay taxes (it is argued that with some exceptions, tax scholarship has played down the importance of this question) by means of describing the peculiarities of the latter in reducing the cognitive, motivational and organisational demands that plague general practical discours...

In this paper I analyze the tension between realism and antirealism at the basis of Kantian constructivism. This tension generates a conflictive account of the source of the validity of social norms. On the one hand, the claim to moral objectivity characteristic of Kantian moral theories makes the validity of norms depend on realist assumptions concerning the existence of shared fundamental int...