The philosophy of fiction : imagination and cognition / edited by Patrik Engisch and Julia Langkau.
"This book presents new research on the crucial role that imagination plays in contemporary philosophy of fiction. The first part of the book challenges the main paradigm set by Kendall Walton and Gregory Currie, according to which there is a necessary connection between fiction and a prescript...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Abingdon ; New York, NY :
Routledge,
2023.
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| Series: | Routledge research in aesthetics.
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| Summary: | "This book presents new research on the crucial role that imagination plays in contemporary philosophy of fiction. The first part of the book challenges the main paradigm set by Kendall Walton and Gregory Currie, according to which there is a necessary connection between fiction and a prescription that we engage imaginatively with its content. The contributors address the fundamental questions of how we can define fiction, and especially whether we can define fiction in terms of imagination. The second part focuses on a distinct but related question: can we point to some distinctive experiential features of our engagement with fiction? In the third part, the focus lies on the cognitive value of fiction and on the role that imagination plays in that respect. The chapters in this part discuss the cognitive value of fiction with respect to issues such as the training of the faculty of imagination, phenomenal experience, empathy, and the emotions. The Philosophy of Fiction will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in aesthetics, philosophy of mind, epistemology, and literary studies"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781003139720 1003139728 1000770346 9781000770353 1000770354 9781000770346 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Description based upon online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed Nov 8th, 2022) |
| Biographical or Historical Data: | Patrik Engisch is SNF Post-Doctoral Researcher at the University of Geneva. He works in the philosophy of mind, aesthetics, and the philosophy of food. He is the co-editor of A Philosophy of Recipes: Making, Experiencing, and Valuing (Bloomsbury, 2022). Julia Langkau is Assistant Professor at the University of Geneva. Her main research areas are the philosophy of mind, epistemology, and aesthetics. She is working on a project titled Creativity, Imagination and Tradition, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF PRIMA grant) |