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- Title
FICTIONAL OBJECTS, FUTURE OBJECTIVES: WHY EXISTENCE MATTERS LESS THAN YOU THINK.
- Authors
DADLEZ, E. M.; HARAM, C. M.
- Abstract
The set of problems typically grouped under the designation "paradox of fiction" raises questions about our emotional responses to nonexistent entities and events. Colin Radford challenges the rationality of these responses. Kendall Walton proposes that our affective reactions are quasi emotions ra the r than emotions simpliciter. Other philosophers distance our responses to fiction from our attitudes toward the world. Many such intuitions seem to be based on a cognitivist approach to emotion that has stringent requirements for epistemic and metaphysical respectability. Contra Walton, Radford, and others, we claim that fictions can activate beliefs about the world, and can activate obligations.
- Subjects
FICTIONALISM (Philosophy); FUTURE (Logic); PARADOX; EMOTIONAL conditioning; NONEXISTENT objects (Philosophy)
- Publication
Philosophy & Literature, 2015, Vol 39, Issue 1A, pA1
- ISSN
0190-0013
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/phl.2015.0023