The author considers music playing traditions which have developed physical mastery to serve expressive ends. He asks how well performance proper has stood up and where its unique value lies. Aimed at students of aesthetics, the philosophy of music, musicologists and performance specialists.

Features a selection of seven essays that displays the author's incisiveness and brilliance of exposition in the examination of ethical subjects and the nature of truth.

This lucid collection of essays the continental-analytic divide, bringing the virtual to centre stage and arguing its importance for re-thinking such central philosophical questions as time and life.

Reflecting on the nature and aims of scientific enquiry in the fields of exercise, health and sport, this book addresses the underlying assumptions of what shape scientific enquiries ought to take in these disciplines. It raises questions such as: Do natural and social scientists need to understand philosophy of science? Are statistics misused?