Fiction Et Métaphysique

Author : Peter Swirski
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0773520783

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Between Literature and Science by Peter Swirski Pdf

In Between Literature and Science Peter Swirski examines the true intellectual scope of Edgar Allan Poe and Stanislaw Lem. Using a genuinely interdisciplinary approach he shows that they propose far-reaching hypotheses in aesthetics, epistemology, cognitive science, philosophy of science, literary studies, and pragmatics as well as in cosmology, artificial intelligence, and futurology. Swirski argues that previous studies of their science fiction works, in neglecting these broader philosophical and scientific ambitions, have misrepresented Poe and Lem's artistic achievements.

Author : Amie L. Thomasson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521640806

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Fiction and Metaphysics by Amie L. Thomasson Pdf

Amie Thomasson argues that fiction has far-reaching implications for central problems of metaphysics.

Author : Alberto Voltolini
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2006-11-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781402051470

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How Ficta Follow Fiction by Alberto Voltolini Pdf

This book presents a novel theory of fictional entities which integrates the work of previous authors. It puts forward a new metaphysical conception of the nature of these entities, according to which a fictional entity is a compound entity built up from both a make-believe theoretical element and a set-theoretical element. The author advances a new combined semantic and ontological defence of the existence of fictional entities.

Author : Anne O'Byrne,Hugh J. Silverman
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780739139073

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Subjects and Simulations by Anne O'Byrne,Hugh J. Silverman Pdf

Subjects and Simulations presents essays focused on suffering and sublimity, representation and subjectivity, and the relation of truth and appearance in the twenty-first century. Inspired by the work of Jean Baudrillard, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe and JeanLuc Nancy, sixteen authors study how the real reasserts itself in an age of every more fragmented media, and how art and literature give us access to forms of truth that elude philosophy. How does representation grant us access to the place once occupied by the subject? Is political life possible? Can plural thinking be retrieved? Will metaphor and simulation give us ways of being in an evanescent world? The volume engages discussions of French and Continental philosophy, post-structuralism, deconstruction, simulacra, aesthetics, existentialism, and media theory.

Author : Anton M. Matytsin
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781421420523

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The Specter of Skepticism in the Age of Enlightenment by Anton M. Matytsin Pdf

8. A Matter of Debate: Conceptions of Material Substance in the Scientific Revolution -- 9. War of the Worlds: Cartesian Vortices and Newtonian Gravitation in Eighteenth-Century Astronomy -- 10. Historical Pyrrhonism and Its Discontents -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z

Author : Watkin Christopher Watkin
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781474414753

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French Philosophy Today by Watkin Christopher Watkin Pdf

Alain Badiou, Quentin Meillassoux, Catherine Malabou, Michel Serres and Bruno Latour: this new generation of French philosophers is laying fresh claim to the human. Across a number of new strains of philosophy, they are rethinking humanity's relationships: to 'nature' and 'culture', to the objects that surround us, to the possibility of social and political change, to ecology and even to our own brains. Christopher Watkin draws out both the promises and perils of these new philosophies. And he shows just how high the stakes are for our technologically advanced but socially atomised and ecologically vulnerable society.

Author : Aloysius Martinich,Avrum Stroll
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0742548341

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Much Ado about Nonexistence by Aloysius Martinich,Avrum Stroll Pdf

Fiction, Reference, and Nonexistence contains a new, contemporary theory of fiction and discusses the connection between language and reality. Martinich and Stroll, two of America's leading philosophers, explore fiction and undertake an analytic philosophical study of fiction and its reference, and its relation to truth.

Author : Mauro Antonelli,Marian David
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110451511

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Existence, Fiction, Assumption by Mauro Antonelli,Marian David Pdf

Der Band der Meinong-Studien versammelt Beiträge zu den Themen Intentionalität, Existenz und Fiktion. Dabei wird der Hintergrund von Meinongs Position bis zur Debatte mit Russell beleuchtet; systematisch ausgerichtet sind die Untersuchungen zu Kripkes Gegenposition und zur Bedeutung von Fiktion in wissenschaftlichen Kontexten. Abgerundet wird der Band durch biographische Darstellungen von Ch. v. Ehrenfels und E. Mally.

Author : James Burton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Science fiction
ISBN : 1474227694

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The Philosophy of Science Fiction by James Burton Pdf

Author : Susan Petit
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9027217602

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Michel Tournier's Metaphysical Fictions by Susan Petit Pdf

This study of the fictional themes and techniques of Michel Tournier reveals his profound radicalism as a social critic and novelist despite the seeming conventionality of his works. Guided by Tournier's essays and interviews, Petit examines his fiction in light of plot sources, philosophical and anthropological training, and his belief that fiction should change the world. Close study of Vendredi ou les limbes du Pacifique, Le Roi des aulnes, Les Meteores, Gaspard, Melchior et Balthazar, and La Goutte d'or, as well as the short fiction in Le Coq de bruyere and Le Medianoche amoureux, shows Tournier's revolutionary conception of plot structuring as he develops key themes, whether religion, sensuality, or prejudice, in more than twenty years spent reconceiving the nature of fiction.

Author : Stuart Brock,Anthony Everett
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780198735595

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Fictional Objects by Stuart Brock,Anthony Everett Pdf

Discusses a range of philosophical questions about fictional characters and fictional objects, with implications for metaphysics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language.

Author : Charles Crittenden
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781501733871

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Unreality by Charles Crittenden Pdf

Charles Crittenden here offers an original solution to one of the traditional dilemmas of philosophy—whether there can be any thing not existing, since to say that some thing does not exist seems to presuppose its existence. Drawing on the tools of Wittgensteinian philosophy and speech act theory, Crittenden argues that we can and often do make reference to unreal objects such as fictional characters, though they do not exist in any sense at all.

Author : Eleanore Holveck
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 074251336X

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Simone de Beauvoir's Philosophy of Lived Experience by Eleanore Holveck Pdf

Simone de Beauvoir developed her philosophy of lived experience as she actually wrote fiction. Hence Beauvoir should be placed among major philosophical novelists of the twentieth-century like Toni Morrison and Nadine Gordimer, and Beauvoir's theory of the metaphysical novel acknowledges multicultural traditions of story-telling and song which are not locked into the theoretical abstractions of the Greek philosophical tradition. In Simone de Beauvoir's Philosophy of Lived Experience, Eleanore Holveck presents Simone de Beauvoir's theory of literature and metaphysics, including its relationship to the philosophers Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, Immanuel Kant, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Jean-Paul Sartre, with references to the literary tradition of Goethe, Maurice Barr s, Arthur Rimbaud, Andr Breton, and Paul Nizan. The book provides a detailed philosophical analysis of Beauvoir's early short stories and several major novels, including The Mandarins and L'invit e, from the point of view of "other" women who appear on the fringes of Beauvoir's fiction: shop girls, seamstresses, and prostitutes. Holveck applies Beauvoir's philosophy to her own lived experience as a working-class teenager who grew up in jazz clubs similar to those Beauvoir herself visited in New York and Chicago.

Author : James Edward Burton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781474227674

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The Philosophy of Science Fiction by James Edward Burton Pdf

The Philosophy of Science Fiction: Henri Bergson and the Fabulations of Philip K. Dick explores the deep affinity between two seemingly quite different thinkers, in their attempts to address the need for salvation in (and from) an era of accelerated mechanization, in which humans' capacity for destroying or subjugating the living has attained a planetary scale. The philosopher and the science fiction writer come together to meet the contradictory imperatives of a realist outlook-a task which, arguably, philosophy and science fiction could only ever adequately undertake in collaboration. Their respective approaches meet in a focus on the ambiguous status of fictionalizing, or fabulation, as simultaneously one of mechanization's most devastating tools, and the possibility of its undoing. When they are read together, the complexities and paradoxes thrown up by this ambiguity, with which both Bergson and Dick struggle on their own, open up new ways to navigate ideas of mechanism and mysticism, immanence and transcendence, and the possibility and meaning of salvation. The result is at once an original reading of both thinkers, a new critical theory of the socio–cultural, political and ethical function of fictionalizing, and a case study in the strange affinity, at times the uncanny similarity, between philosophy and science fiction.

Author : Craig Bourne,Emily Caddick Bourne
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191662805

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Time in Fiction by Craig Bourne,Emily Caddick Bourne Pdf

What can we learn about the world from engaging with fictional time-series? What should we make of stories involving time travellers who change the past, recurrence of a single day, foreknowledge of the future, the freezing or rewinding of time, or time-series which split into alternative courses of events? Do they show us radical alternative possibilities concerning the nature of time, or do they show that even the impossible can be represented in fiction? Neither, so this book argues. Defending the view that a fiction represents a single possible world, the authors show how apparent representations of radically different time-series can be explained in terms of how worlds are represented without there being any fictional world which has such a time-series. In this way, the book uses the complexities of fictional time to get to the core of the relation between truth in fiction and possibility. It provides a logic and metaphysics to deal with the fact that fictions can leave certain features of their fictional worlds indefinite, and draws comparisons and connections between fictional and scientific representations and hypotheses. Utilising the notion of a counterpart, the authors show how to understand claims concerning persistence of characters and their identity across fictions, and what it means for a fiction to be 'set' at an actual time. Consideration is given to motion in fiction, asking whether it is sometimes continuous and sometimes discrete, how to understand different rates of change, and whether fictional time itself can be said to flow.