The Cognitive Value Of Philosophical Fiction

Author : Jukka Mikkonen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1472545516

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The Cognitive Value of Philosophical Fiction by Jukka Mikkonen Pdf

Can literary fictions convey significant philosophical views, understood in terms of propositional knowledge? This study addresses the philosophical value of literature by examining how literary works impart philosophy truth and knowledge and to what extent the works should be approached as communications of their authors. Beginning with theories of fiction, it examines the case against the prevailing 'pretence' and 'make-believe' theories of fiction hostile to propositional theories of literary truth. Tackling further arguments against the cognitive function and value of literature, this stud.

Author : Jukka Mikkonen
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781441129703

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The Cognitive Value of Philosophical Fiction by Jukka Mikkonen Pdf

Can literary fictions convey significant philosophical views, understood in terms of propositional knowledge? This study addresses the philosophical value of literature by examining how literary works impart philosophy truth and knowledge and to what extent the works should be approached as communications of their authors. Beginning with theories of fiction, it examines the case against the prevailing 'pretence' and 'make-believe' theories of fiction hostile to propositional theories of literary truth. Tackling further arguments against the cognitive function and value of literature, this study illustrates how literary works can contribute to knowledge by making assertions and suggestions and by providing hypotheses for the reader to assess. Through clear analysis of the concept of the author, the role of the authorial intention and the different approaches to the 'meaning' of a literary work, this study provides an historical survey to the cognitivist-anti-cognitivist dispute, introducing contemporary trends in the discussion before presenting a novel approach to recognizing the cognitive function of literature. An important contribution to philosophical studies of literature and knowledge.

Author : Jukka Mikkonen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9514485866

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Philosophy Through Literature by Jukka Mikkonen Pdf

Author : Jukka Mikkonen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350163980

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Philosophy, Literature and Understanding by Jukka Mikkonen Pdf

Challenging existing methodological conceptions of the analytic approach to aesthetics, Jukka Mikkonen brings together philosophy, literary studies and cognitive psychology to offer a new theory on the cognitive value of reading fiction. Philosophy, Literature and Understanding defends the epistemic significance of narratives, arguing that it should be explained in terms of understanding rather than knowledge. Mikkonen formulates understanding as a cognitive process, which he connects to narrative imagining in order to assert that narrative is a central tool for communicating understanding. Demonstrating the effects that literary works have on their readers, he examines academic critical analysis, responses of the reading public and nonfictional writings that include autobiographical testimony to their writer's influences and attitudes to life. In doing so, he provides empirical evidence of the cognitive benefits of literature and of how readers demonstrate the growth of their understanding. By drawing on the written testimony of the reader, this book is an important intervention into debates on the value of literature that incorporates understanding in new and imaginative ways.

Author : Jukka Mikkonen
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781441123633

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The Cognitive Value of Philosophical Fiction by Jukka Mikkonen Pdf

Can literary fictions convey significant philosophical views, understood in terms of propositional knowledge? This study addresses the philosophical value of literature by examining how literary works impart philosophy truth and knowledge and to what extent the works should be approached as communications of their authors. Beginning with theories of fiction, it examines the case against the prevailing 'pretence' and 'make-believe' theories of fiction hostile to propositional theories of literary truth. Tackling further arguments against the cognitive function and value of literature, this study illustrates how literary works can contribute to knowledge by making assertions and suggestions and by providing hypotheses for the reader to assess. Through clear analysis of the concept of the author, the role of the authorial intention and the different approaches to the 'meaning' of a literary work, this study provides an historical survey to the cognitivist-anti-cognitivist dispute, introducing contemporary trends in the discussion before presenting a novel approach to recognizing the cognitive function of literature. An important contribution to philosophical studies of literature and knowledge.

Author : Patrik Engisch,Julia Langkau
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000770353

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The Philosophy of Fiction by Patrik Engisch,Julia Langkau Pdf

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. Chapter 13 of this book is available for free in PDF format as Open Access from the individual product page at www.routledge.com. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Author : Peter Lamarque,Stein Haugom Olsen
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015026869472

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Truth, Fiction, and Literature by Peter Lamarque,Stein Haugom Olsen Pdf

This book examines the complex and varied ways in which fictions relate to the real world, and offers a precise account of how imaginative works of literature can use fictional content to explore matters of universal human interest. While rejecting the traditional view that literature is important for the truths that it imparts, the authors also reject attempts to cut literature off altogether from real human concerns. Their detailed account of fictionality, mimesis, and cognitive value, founded on the methods of analytical philosophy, restores to literature its distinctive status among cultural practices. The authors also explore metaphysical and skeptical views, prevalent in modern thought, according to which the world itself is a kind of fiction, and truth no more than a social construct. They identify different conceptions of fiction in science, logic, epistemology, and make-believe, and thereby challenge the idea that discourse per se is fictional and that different modes of discourse are at root indistinguishable. They offer rigorous analyses of the roles of narrative, imagination, metaphor, and "making" in human thought processes. Both in their methods and in their conclusions, Lamarque and Olsen aim to restore rigor and clarity to debates about the values of literature, and to provide new, philosophically sound foundations for a genuine change of direction in literary theorizing.

Author : Sarah E. Worth
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781783483204

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In Defense of Reading by Sarah E. Worth Pdf

In this fascinating book, Sarah Worth addresses from a philosophical perspective the many ways in which reading benefits us morally, socially and cognitively.

Author : Kathleen Stock
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780198798347

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Only Imagine by Kathleen Stock Pdf

Only Imagine offers a new theory of fictional content. Kathleen Stock argues for a controversial view known as 'extreme intentionalism'; the idea that the content of a particular work of fiction is equivalent to exactly what the author of the work intended the reader to imagine.

Author : Monika Fludernik,Marie-Laure Ryan
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 789 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110486278

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Narrative Factuality by Monika Fludernik,Marie-Laure Ryan Pdf

The study of narrative—the object of the rapidly growing discipline of narratology—has been traditionally concerned with the fictional narratives of literature, such as novels or short stories. But narrative is a transdisciplinary and transmedial concept whose manifestations encompass both the fictional and the factual. In this volume, which provides a companion piece to Tobias Klauk and Tilmann Köppe’s Fiktionalität: Ein interdisziplinäres Handbuch, the use of narrative to convey true and reliable information is systematically explored across media, cultures and disciplines, as well as in its narratological, stylistic, philosophical, and rhetorical dimensions. At a time when the notion of truth has come under attack, it is imperative to reaffirm the commitment to facts of certain types of narrative, and to examine critically the foundations of this commitment. But because it takes a background for a figure to emerge clearly, this book will also explore nonfactual types of narratives, thereby providing insights into the nature of narrative fiction that could not be reached from the narrowly literary perspective of early narratology.

Author : Gregory Currie
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780192636782

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Imagining and Knowing by Gregory Currie Pdf

Works of fiction are works of the imagination and for the imagination. Gregory Currie energetically defends the familiar idea that fictions are guides to the imagination, a view which has come under attack in recent years. Responding to a number of challenges to this standpoint, he argues that within the domain of the imagination there lies a number of distinct and not well-recognized capacities which make the connection between fiction and imagination work. Currie then considers the question of whether in guiding the imagination fictions may also guide our beliefs, our outlook, and our habits in directions of learning. It is widely held that fictions very often provide opportunities for the acquisition of knowledge and of skills. Without denying that this sometimes happens, this book explores the difficulties and dangers of too optimistic a picture of learning from fiction. It is easy to exaggerate the connection between fiction and learning, to ignore countervailing tendencies in fiction to create error and ignorance, and to suppose that claims about learning from fiction require no serious empirical support. Currie makes a case for modesty about learning from fiction — reasoning that a lot of what we take to be learning in this area is itself a kind of pretence, that we are too optimistic about the psychological and moral insights of authors, that the case for fiction as a Darwinian adaptation is weak, and that empathy is both hard to acquire and not always morally advantageous.

Author : Ricardo Miguel-Alfonso
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501359781

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The Fictional Minds of Modernism by Ricardo Miguel-Alfonso Pdf

Challenging the notion that modernism is marked by an “inward turn” – a configuration of the individual as distinct from the world – this collection delineates the relationship between the mind and material and social systems, rethinking our understanding of modernism's representation of cognitive and affective processes. Through analysis of a variety of international novels, short stories, and films – all published roughly between 1890 and 1945 – the contributors to this collection demonstrate that the so-called “inward turn” of modernist narratives in fact reflects the necessary interaction between mind, self, and world that constitutes knowledge, and therefore precludes any radical split between these categories. The essays examine the cognitive value of modernist narrative, showing how the perception of objects and of other people is a relational activity that requires an awareness of the constant flux of reality. The Fictional Minds of Modernism explores how modernist narratives offer insights into the real, historical world not as a mere object of contemplation but as an object of knowledge, thus bridging the gap between classical narratology and modernist experimentation.

Author : Richard Gaskin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199657902

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Language, Truth, and Literature by Richard Gaskin Pdf

Richard Gaskin offers an original defence of literary humanism, according to which works of imaginative literature have an objective meaning which is fixed at the time of production and not subject to individual readers' responses. He shows that the appreciation of literature is a cognitive activity fully on a par with scientific investigation.

Author : Patrick Fessenbecker
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781474460620

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Reading Ideas in Victorian Literature by Patrick Fessenbecker Pdf

Argues against the repeated emphasis on literary form and for the artistic importance of literary content.

Author : Tzachi Zamir
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780190698515

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Shakespeare's Hamlet by Tzachi Zamir Pdf

This book assembles a team of leading literary scholars and philosophers to probe philosophical questions that assert themselves in Shakespeare's Hamlet, including issues about subjectivity, knowledge, sex, grief, and self-theatricalization.