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Imagining and Knowing

The Shape of Fiction
TaschenbuchKartoniert, Paperback
256 Seiten
Englisch
Oxford University Presserschienen am17.02.2022
Gregory Currie defends the view that works of fiction guide the imagination, and then considers whether fiction can also guide our beliefs. He makes a case for modesty about learning from fiction, as it is easy to be too optimistic about the psychological insights of authors, and empathy is hard to acquire while not always morally advantageous.mehr
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KlappentextGregory Currie defends the view that works of fiction guide the imagination, and then considers whether fiction can also guide our beliefs. He makes a case for modesty about learning from fiction, as it is easy to be too optimistic about the psychological insights of authors, and empathy is hard to acquire while not always morally advantageous.
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ISBN/GTIN978-0-19-286468-0
ProduktartTaschenbuch
EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback
FormatTrade Paperback (USA)
Erscheinungsjahr2022
Erscheinungsdatum17.02.2022
Seiten256 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
MasseBreite 155 mm, Höhe 235 mm, Dicke 28 mm
Gewicht386 g
Artikel-Nr.8386434

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
IntroductionPart I: Imagination's Empire1: An Essential Connection2: How Fiction Works3: Imaginings Like Desires4: Affective ImaginingPart II: Starting to Think About Fiction and Knowledge5: The Varieties of Knowing6: An Empirical Question?7: Fiction, Mentalizing, and PlanningPart III: Fiction, Knowledge, and Ignorance8: Knowledge from Imagination9: Fiction, Truth, and the Transmission of Belief10: Wise Authors?11: Fiction and EmpathyWhere We Aremehr

Autor

Gregory Currie is Professor of Philosophy at the University of York. He was educated at the London School of Economics and at the University of California, Berkeley. He has taught at universities in Australia, New Zealand and the UK, and held visiting positions at the Australian National University, the University of Oxford, and the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS), Paris. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.