Add to ORKGDrawing on what we know about priming effects, informational encapsulation, lucid dreaming, imaginative practice, and the “mirror box” illusion, this article argues that self-reflexive fictions may enhance our capacity for simultaneous belief and disbelief, a capacity of surprising importance for human flourishing
While it is often assumed that fictions must be informative or morally improving in order to be of a...
Actors, undercover investigators, and readers of fiction sometimes report “losing themselves” in the...
Fictions are credited with a significant power to change our attitudes and behaviours. But do they a...
Drawing on what we know about priming effects, informational encapsulation, lucid dreaming, imaginat...
In the course of this thesis I work to provide a reader centred account of fiction reading. I argue ...
My essay joins the contemporary cognitive-narratological debate on whether readers bring to bear on ...
Mental fictionalism is not the benign view that we may better understand the mind if we think of men...
(print) x, 198 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.Pt. 1. Attributing minds. Why did Peter Walsh tremble? -- What is m...
In the analysis and interpretation of fictional minds, unnatural and cognitive narratology may seem ...
Many of us share a strong intuition that fictional literature possesses cognitive value in the sense...
Kendall Walton’s account of make-believe takes the social dimension of imagination into account. In ...
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Routledge via the DOI in...
Contemporary philosophical discussion on the nature of the imagination has been influenced by recent...
Works of fiction do things to us, and we do things because of works of fiction. When reading Hamlet,...
Works of fiction are alleged to differ from works of nonfiction in instructing their audience to ima...
While it is often assumed that fictions must be informative or morally improving in order to be of a...
Actors, undercover investigators, and readers of fiction sometimes report “losing themselves” in the...
Fictions are credited with a significant power to change our attitudes and behaviours. But do they a...
Drawing on what we know about priming effects, informational encapsulation, lucid dreaming, imaginat...
In the course of this thesis I work to provide a reader centred account of fiction reading. I argue ...
My essay joins the contemporary cognitive-narratological debate on whether readers bring to bear on ...
Mental fictionalism is not the benign view that we may better understand the mind if we think of men...
(print) x, 198 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.Pt. 1. Attributing minds. Why did Peter Walsh tremble? -- What is m...
In the analysis and interpretation of fictional minds, unnatural and cognitive narratology may seem ...
Many of us share a strong intuition that fictional literature possesses cognitive value in the sense...
Kendall Walton’s account of make-believe takes the social dimension of imagination into account. In ...
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Routledge via the DOI in...
Contemporary philosophical discussion on the nature of the imagination has been influenced by recent...
Works of fiction do things to us, and we do things because of works of fiction. When reading Hamlet,...
Works of fiction are alleged to differ from works of nonfiction in instructing their audience to ima...
While it is often assumed that fictions must be informative or morally improving in order to be of a...
Actors, undercover investigators, and readers of fiction sometimes report “losing themselves” in the...
Fictions are credited with a significant power to change our attitudes and behaviours. But do they a...