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Plato’s Ion in The Context Of Literary Cognitivism

In this paper I analyse Plato’s Ionfrom the standpoint of contemporary literary cognitivism – a view according to which literature is cognitively valuable source of knowledge. In trying to defend such a view, literary cognitivist has to show that Plato was wrong when he claimed that poets, i.e. authors, are epistemically unreliable in what they are saying in their poems, due to the divine inspiration which governs them in their writings. In contemporary literary cognitivism, this argument is called no expertise argument. I argue in favour of literary cognitivism and claim that there is a way to answer to Plato’s challenge and to refute the no expertise argument

art; Ion; literary cognitivism; literary fiction; no expertise argument; Plato; realism; reliability

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