• Beyond the Brain: Knowledge as an Embodied and Cultural Process

    Abstract What does it mean to know something? We often imagine knowledge as something that happens primarily in the mind: information is acquired, processed, stored, and eventually retrieved. In Epistemology Beyond the Brain, Lynnsey K. Weissenberger, John M. Budd, and Ken R. Herold challenge this picture by exploring a more holistic understanding of knowledge—one that…

  • Joining my doctorate program

    I have decided to share with you a piece of the whole process of joining a doctorate program. The process actually varies a lot depending on the institution you would like to join. One of the institutions I applied to proposed a ‘practical’ exam in which applicant were supposed to compose a little piece of…

  • Understanding Sonority as a Composite Unit

    One of Didier Guigue’s central contributions is the idea that sonority should not be understood merely as a collection of sounds, but as a perceptual and compositional unit. Rather than treating pitch, dynamics or register as isolated parameters, Guigue proposes a framework in which sonority emerges from the interaction of multiple components organized across different…