This seminar offers an issues-based approach to the study of music and philosophy: both the philosophy of music and, more broadly, intersections of philosophy and music. Its purview may range from intellectual history and the Continental tradition of philosophical aesthetics, through recent theoretical approaches to music in conjunction with critical humanistic thought –– cultural and literary studies, critical theory, psychoanalysis, sound and media studies, sociology, and ethics. Topics will vary, but may include philosophical understandings of music and musicality in relation to language, sense and embodiment, time and consciousness, or changing concepts of ineffability, utopia, and the sublime.