Fictions,feelings, and emotions |
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Authors: | Stuart Brock |
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Institution: | (1) Philosophy Programme, Victoria University of Wellington, PO Box 600, Wellington, 6005, New Zealand |
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Abstract: | Many philosophers suggest (1) that our emotional engagement with fiction involves participation in a game of make-believe,
and (2) that what distinguishes an emotional game from a dispassionate game is the fact that the former activity alone involves
sensations of physiological and visceral disturbances caused by our participation in the game. In this paper I argue that
philosophers who accept (1) should reject (2). I then illustrate how this conclusion illuminates various puzzles in aesthetics
and the philosophy of mind. |
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Keywords: | Currie emotion feeling fiction make-believe tragedy Walton |
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