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Literature as a mode of promoting understanding

Contemporary epistemology has abandoned monistic picture of epistemic values, according to which we mostly cared about reaching knowledge. Under the influence of Duncan Pritchard and Johanthan Kvanvig, we recognize some other epistemic aims, like understanding and wisdom. In this paper I try to connect this pluralisitc picture which comes from epistemology and a commonplace in literary aesthetics, namely the claim that literature is cognitively valuable. Following authors like John Gibson, I try to shown that literature provides us with a form of 'cognitive awareness' and is in that sense extremely valuable for our epistemic project of reaching understanding.

epistemic aims and values; knowledge; literature; understanding

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