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Sommario
- 1: Introduction
- SECTION I: Author Testimony
- 2: Kathleen Stock: Fiction, Testimony, Belief, and History
- 3: Eva-Maria Konrad: Signposts of Factuality
- 4: Anna Ichino and Gregory Currie: Truth and Trust in Fiction
- SECTION II: Non-Testimonial Epistemic Contributions of Fiction
- 5: James O. Young: Literary Fiction and True Beliefs
- 6: Peter Lamarque: Belief, Thought and Literature
- 7: Allan Hazlett: Imagination that Amounts to Knowledge from Fiction
- 8: Lucy O'Brien: The Novel as a Source for Self-Knowledge
- SECTION III: Belief, Truth, and Attitudes from Fictional Persuasion
- 9: Ema Sullivan-Bissett and Lisa Bortolotti: Fictional Persuasion, Transparency, and the Aim of Belief
- 10: Asbjørn Steglich-Petersen: Fictional Persuasion and the Nature of Belief
- 11: Wesley Buckwalter and Katherine Tullmann: The Genuine Attitude View of Fictional Belief
- SECTION IV: Aesthetic Appreciation and Belief
- 12: Jon Robson: Against Aesthetic Exceptionalism
- 13: Daniel Whiting: Don't Take my Word for It: On Beliefs, Affects, Reasons, Values, Rationality, and Aesthetic Testimony
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Ema Sullivan-Bissett is a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Birmingham. Her research concerns the nature of belief and its connection to truth, as well as delusional beliefs and how they are formed. Her publications include 'A Defence of Owens' Exclusivity Objection to Beliefs Having Aims' (2013), Philosophical Studies, vol. 163, no. 2, pp. 452-7 (with Paul Noordhof), 'Implicit Bias, Confabulation, and Epistemic Innocence' (2015), Consciousness and Cognition, vol. 33, pp. 548-60, 'Biological Function and Epistemic Normativity' (forthcoming), Philosophical Explorations, and 'Aims and Exclusivity' (forthcoming), European Journal of Philosophy.
Helen Bradley received her PhD in Philosophy at the University of York in 2016 under the supervision of Peter Lamarque. Her research concerns the philosophy of depiction and the relation, and significance, of artistic style to our experience of pictures. Her publications include 'Reducing the Space of Seeing-In' (2014), British Journal of Aesthetics, vol. 54, no. 4, pp. 409-24, and 'The Pursuit of Fiction: An interview with Peter Lamarque' (2013), Postgraduate Journal of Aesthetics, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 2-16.
Paul Noordhof is Anniversary Professor of Philosophy at the University of York. His main research interests are in the philosophy of mind, action theory, and metaphysics. His work in the philosophy of mind mainly focuses upon the nature and explanatory character of consciousness. His publications include 'A Defence of Owens' Exclusivity Objection to Beliefs Having Aims' (2013), Philosophical Studies, vol. 163, no. 2, pp. 452-7 (with Ema Sullivan-Bissett), 'The Essential Instability of Self-Deception' (2009), Social Theory and Practice, vol. 35, no. 1, pp. 45-71, 'Self-Deception, Interpretation and Consciousness' (2003), Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, vol. 77, no. 1, pp. 75-100, and 'Believe What You Want' (2001), Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, vol 101, no. 3, pp. 247-65.
Riassunto
Art and Belief presents new work at the intersection of philosophy of mind and philosophy of art. Topics include the cognitive contributions artworks can make, the phenomenon of fictional persuasion, and the nature of aesthetic testimony, and the relation between belief and truth in our experience of art.
