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Fiction and Epistemic Value: State of the Art

Mitchell Green

British Journal of Aesthetics 62 (2):273-289 (2022)

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Fictionalism about Chatbots.Fintan Mallory - 2023 - Ergo: An Open Access Journal of Philosophy 10.details According to widely accepted views in metasemantics, the outputs of chatbots and other artificial text generators should be meaningless. They aren’t produced with communicative intentions and the systems producing them are not following linguistic conventions. Nevertheless, chatbots have assumed roles in customer service and healthcare, they are spreading information and disinformation and, in some cases, it may be more rational to trust the outputs of bots than those of our fellow human beings. To account for the epistemic role of chatbots (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 7 citations
Show, Don’t Tell: Emotion, Acquaintance and Moral Understanding Through Fiction.Shannon Brick - 2023 - British Journal of Aesthetics 63 (4):501-522.details This paper substantiates a distinction, built out of Gricean resources, between two kinds of communicative act: showing and telling. Where telling that p proceeds by recruiting an addressee’s capacity to recognize trustworthy informants, showing does not. Instead, showing proceeds by presenting an addressee with a consideration that provides reason to believe that p (other than the reason provided by an informant’s credibility), and so recruits their capacity to respond to those reasons. With this account in place, the paper defends an (...) Download Export citation Bookmark
Aesthetic Cognitivism and Serialized Television Fiction.Iris Vidmar Jovanović - 2023 - Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 81 (1):69-79.details In this article, I defend the cognitive value of certain generic television series. Unlike media and television scholars, who have been appreciative of the informative capacity of television fiction, philosophers have been less willing to acknowledge the way in which these works contribute to our understanding of our social reality. My aim here is to provide one such account, grounded in aesthetic cognitivism, that is, the view that fiction is a source of knowledge. Focusing on crime and courtroom dramas, I (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 2 citations
Fiction as a defeater.Andreas Stokke - forthcoming - Philosophical Quarterly.details This paper argues that no instances of acquiring knowledge from works of literary fiction are instances of the way we ordinarily learn from the testimony of others. The paper argues that the fictional status of a work is a defeater for the justification of beliefs formed on the basis of statements within that work, which must itself be defeated for such beliefs based on fiction to amount to knowledge. This marks a fundamental difference with learning from testimony, since regardless of (...) Download Export citation Bookmark
On the (un)suitability of literature for moral education.Iris Vidmar Jovanović - 2024 - Theoria 90 (4):417-428.details In this article, I defend moral aesthetic cognitivism, the view that literature is a valuable source of insights related to morally relevant aspects of our world and that it can significantly contribute to our moral education. I am in particular concerned with counterarguments to this view voiced by Greg Currie, who trashes epistemological foundations of literature and emphasizes the lack of empirical corroboration of cognitivism, and by Peter Lamarque, who dismisses educative potential of literature on the account of readers' incapacity (...) Download Export citation Bookmark

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