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  1. Engaging Characters: Fiction, Emotion, and the Cinema. [REVIEW]Murray Smith - 1999 - Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 57 (1):88-89.
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  • Fiction Film and the Varieties of Empathic Engagement.Margrethe Bruun Vaage - 2010 - Midwest Studies in Philosophy 34 (1):158-179.
    Mindreading, simulation, empathy and central imagining are often used interchangeably in current analytic philosophy, and typically defined as imagining what the other wants and believes – to run these states “off-line.” By imagining the other’s beliefs and desires, one will come to understand and predict his emotional and behavioural reactions. Many have suggested that films may trigger engagement in the characters’ perspectives, and one finds similar use of these terms in film theory. Imagining the characters’ states – with emphasis on (...)
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  • Rethinking the philosophy – literature distinction.Iris Vidmar - 2019 - Rivista di Estetica 70:156-170.
    Contemporary debates within analytic philosophy regarding the relation between literature and philosophy focus on the capacity of some literary works to engage with philosophical problems. While some philosophers see literature as a welcome contribution to philosophy, or as an alternative to pursuing philosophical questions, some are more sceptical with respect to its capacity to tackle philosophical concerns. As a contribution to this debate, in this paper I look at similarities and dissimilarities between the two practices, with the aim of mitigating (...)
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  • Cognitive Literary Science: Dialogues Between Literature and Cognition.Michael Burke (ed.) - 2017 - Oxford University Press USA.
    This book brings together researchers with cognitive-scientific and literary backgrounds to present innovative research in all three variations on the possible interactions between literary studies and cognitive science. The tripartite structure of the volume reflects a more ambitious conception of what cognitive approaches to literature are and could be than is usually encountered, and thus aims both to map out and to advance the field. The first section corresponds to what most people think of as "cognitive poetics" or "cognitive literary (...)
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  • The Paradox of Junk Fiction.Noël Carroll - 1994 - Philosophy and Literature 18 (2):225-241.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Noël Carroll THE PARADOX OFJUNK FICTION Perhaps on your way to some academic conference, if you had no papers to grade, you stopped in die airport gift shop for something to read on the plane. You saw racks of novels authored by die likes of Mary Higgins Clark, Michael Crichton, John Grisham, Danielle Steele, Sidney Sheldon, Stephen King, Sue Grafton, Elmore Leonard, Sara Paretsky, Tom Clancy, and so on. (...)
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  • Cinema, philosophy, Bergman: on film as philosophy.Paisley Livingston - 2009 - New York: Oxford University Press.
    The increasingly popular idea that cinematic fictions can "do" philosophy raises some difficult questions. Who is actually doing the philosophizing? Is it the philosophical commentator who reads general arguments or theories into the stories conveyed by a film? Could it be the film-maker, or a group of collaborating film-makers, who raise and try to answer philosophical questions with a film? Is there something about the experience of films that is especially suited to the stimulation of worthwhile philosophical reflections? In the (...)
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  • (1 other version)Theses on cinema as philosophy.Paisley Livingston - 1991 - Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 64 (1):11–18.
    The article explores the link between motion pictures and philosophy, citing film's contribution to philosophy, and the illustrative and heuristic roles of films. The philosophical contributions of films may be examined in the films "Vredens Dag," or "Day of Wrath," where filmmaker, Carl Theodor Dreyer used various specifically cinematic means to express ideas pertaining to ethical and epistemic issues, while "The Seventh Seal," provides some ideas about religion.
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  • Minerva's Night Out: Philosophy, Pop Culture, and Moving Pictures.Noël Carroll - 2013 - Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.
    _Minerva’s Night Out_ presents series of essays by noted philosopher and motion picture and media theorist Noël Carroll that explore issues at the intersection of philosophy, motion pictures, and popular culture. Presents a wide-ranging series of essays that reflect on philosophical issues relating to modern film and popular culture Authored by one of the best known philosophers dealing with film and popular culture Written in an accessible manner to appeal to students and scholars Coverage ranges from the philosophy of Halloween (...)
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  • Fiction and Narrative.Derek Matravers - 2014 - Oxford, GB: Oxford University Press.
    Do fictions depend upon imagination? Derek Matravers argues against the mainstream view that they do, and offers an original account of what it is to read, listen to, or watch a narrative. He downgrades the divide between fiction and non-fiction, largely dispenses with the imagination, and in doing so illuminates a succession of related issues.
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  • Tv series and their boundaries.Iris Vidmar Jovanović - 2020 - Rivista di Estetica 73:30-46.
    In this paper I follow Ted Nannicelli in the project of establishing boundaries of television works. I focus on serialized television works pertaining to a particular genre and I set out to provide an account of their identity. My claim is that external identity of such works is determined by their specific genre-affiliation, given the way in which generic norms determine the content of the series, namely, its characteristic storylines and regular set of characters. From the internal perspective, a series’ (...)
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  • Big Philosophical Questions: Why They Matter and Why They Are Still Around.Iris Vidmar - 2018 - The European Legacy 23 (4):403-415.
    Big philosophical questions—about the mind, the idea of the good, justice, beauty, knowledge—have been the prime interest of philosophers ever since Plato first raised them in his dialogues. However, regardless of how hard philosophers have been trying to find answers to them, it seems that all they have ever managed to do was to find reasons for disagreements, and, on the whole, to have failed to reach a consensus on pretty much anything. Some philosophers now claim that there hasn’t been (...)
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  • Empty Ideas: A Critique of Analytic Philosophy.Peter K. Unger - 2014 - New York, NY: Oup Usa.
    During the middle of the twentieth century, philosophers generally agreed that, by contrast with science, philosophy should offer no substantial thoughts about the general nature of concrete reality. Instead, philosophers offered conceptual truths. It is widely assumed that, since 1970, things have changed greatly.
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  • On Film.Stephen Mulhall - 2001 - Routledge.
    In this significantly expanded new edition of his acclaimed exploration of the four Alien movies, Stephen Mulhall adds several new chapters on Steven Spielberg’s Mission: Impossible trilogy and Minority Report . The first part of the book discusses the four Alien movies. Mulhall argues that the sexual significance of the aliens themselves, and of Ripley’s resistance to them, takes us deep into the question of what it is to be human. At the heart of the book is a highly original (...)
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  • Caring about characters.Eileen John - 2016 - In Garry Hagberg (ed.), Fictional Characters, Real Problems: The Search for Ethical Content in Literature. Oxford: Oxford University Press UK. pp. 31-46.
    This chapter considers how and why real people can care about fictional characters.. Caring rests on having interests at stake, and in literary contexts those interests concern the accuracy and content of a representation; we as people, as part of our natural history, are beings for whom representation and being represented are centrally important. This chapter argues for a better integration of the “internal” and “external” perspectives on fictional characters, that is, a better integration of what are too often taken (...)
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  • Philosophy inside out.Philip Kitcher - 2011 - Metaphilosophy 42 (3):248-260.
    Abstract: Philosophy is often conceived in the Anglophone world today as a subject that focuses on questions in particular “core areas,” pre-eminently epistemology and metaphysics. This article argues that the contemporary conception is a new version of the scholastic “self-indulgence for the few” of which Dewey complained nearly a century ago. Philosophical questions evolve, and a first task for philosophers is to address issues that arise for their own times. The article suggests that a renewal of philosophy today should turn (...)
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  • Fiction and the Weave of Life.John Gibson - 2007 - Oxford, GB: Oxford University Press UK.
    Literary fiction is of crucial importance in human life. It is a source of understanding and insight into the nature of the human condition, yet ever since Plato, philosophers have struggled to provide a plausible explanation of how this can be the case. For surely the fictionality - the sheer invented character - of the literary text means that fiction presents not our world, but other worlds? In Fiction and the Weave of Life, John Gibson offers a novel and intriguing (...)
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  • Fictive Utterance and the Fictionality of Narratives and Works.David Davies - 2015 - British Journal of Aesthetics 55 (1):39-55.
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  • Beyond mere illustration: How films can be philosophy.Thomas E. Wartenberg - 2006 - Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 64 (1):19–32.
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  • (2 other versions)Book review: Rape and equal protection: A review of Stephen J. Schulhofer's unwanted sex: The culture of intimidation and the failure of law and Andrew E. taslitz's rape and the culture of the courtroom. [REVIEW]Patricia Smith - 2004 - Hypatia 19 (2):152-157.
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  • [Book review] unwanted sex, the culture of intimidation and the failure of law. [REVIEW]Stephen Schulhofer - 2000 - Criminal Justice Ethics 20 (1):45-52.
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  • The Difficulty with Difficulty.David Novitz - 2000 - The Journal of Aesthetic Education 34 (2):5.
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  • Beauty and Sublimity: A Cognitive Aesthetics of Literature and the Arts.Patrick Colm Hogan - 2016 - Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press.
    Recent decades have witnessed an explosion in neuroscientific and related research treating aesthetic response. This book integrates this research with insights from philosophical aesthetics to propose new answers to longstanding questions about beauty and sublimity. Hogan begins by distinguishing what we respond to as beautiful from what we count socially as beautiful. He goes on to examine the former in terms of information processing and emotional involvement. In the course of the book, Hogan examines such issues as how universal principles (...)
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