Add to ORKGWhat is fiction? It permeates contemporary life: via novels we read, stories we tell, box-sets we watch, and as philosophers, thought experiments we use. Many think it should be characterised in terms of a relation to the imagination. In this essay, I’ll consider prominent expressions of this view, as well as rejections of it. Before this, I’ll introduce two methodological approaches that it’s helpful to distinguish
In this essay I argue against the idea that modeling in science is analogous to fiction making in li...
Standard theories define fiction in terms of an invited response of imagining or make-believe. I arg...
Contemporary philosophical discussion on the nature of the imagination has been influenced by recent...
This book argues that there is no special link between fiction and the imagination. It follows that ...
The first goal of this thesis is to propose a satisfying philosophical theory on the nature of ficti...
Appeals to imagination to distinguish fiction from nonfiction have been persuasively challenged by p...
In response to the paradox implicit in the phrase "realistic fiction," critics have frequently posit...
Two contrary concepts dominate our understanding about human imagination—this all-but-undefinable hu...
This paper attempts to reconcile two apparently opposed ways of thinking about the imagination and i...
International audienceImagination is typically invoked in accounting for our interaction with narrat...
In Fiction and Narrative, Derek Matravers argues that what is fundamental in philosophy of fiction i...
Works of fiction are alleged to differ from works of nonfiction in instructing their audience to ima...
In the course of this thesis I work to provide a reader centred account of fiction reading. I argue ...
The currently standard approach to fiction is to define it in terms of imagination. I have argued el...
The chapter considers the “paradox of fiction,” understood as the claim that it is in some sense irr...
In this essay I argue against the idea that modeling in science is analogous to fiction making in li...
Standard theories define fiction in terms of an invited response of imagining or make-believe. I arg...
Contemporary philosophical discussion on the nature of the imagination has been influenced by recent...
This book argues that there is no special link between fiction and the imagination. It follows that ...
The first goal of this thesis is to propose a satisfying philosophical theory on the nature of ficti...
Appeals to imagination to distinguish fiction from nonfiction have been persuasively challenged by p...
In response to the paradox implicit in the phrase "realistic fiction," critics have frequently posit...
Two contrary concepts dominate our understanding about human imagination—this all-but-undefinable hu...
This paper attempts to reconcile two apparently opposed ways of thinking about the imagination and i...
International audienceImagination is typically invoked in accounting for our interaction with narrat...
In Fiction and Narrative, Derek Matravers argues that what is fundamental in philosophy of fiction i...
Works of fiction are alleged to differ from works of nonfiction in instructing their audience to ima...
In the course of this thesis I work to provide a reader centred account of fiction reading. I argue ...
The currently standard approach to fiction is to define it in terms of imagination. I have argued el...
The chapter considers the “paradox of fiction,” understood as the claim that it is in some sense irr...
In this essay I argue against the idea that modeling in science is analogous to fiction making in li...
Standard theories define fiction in terms of an invited response of imagining or make-believe. I arg...
Contemporary philosophical discussion on the nature of the imagination has been influenced by recent...