Naslov
Literature and Truth – Revisiting Stolnitz’s Anti- cognitivism

Autori
Vidmar, Iris

Izvornik
Croatian journal of philosophy (1333-1108) 56 (2019); 351-370

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u časopisima, članak, znanstveni

Ključne riječi
art, cognitivism, knowledge, literature, Jerome Stolnitz, truth

Sažetak
In this paper I address Jerome Stolnitz’s famous article On the Cognitive Triviality of Art, with the aim of defending aesthetic and literary cognitivism against the charges Stolnitz issues at it therein. My defence of literary cognitivism is grounded in contemporary epistemology, which, I argue, is more embracive of cognitive values of literature traditionally invoked by literary cognitivists. My discussion is structured against Stolnitz’s individual arguments, dedicated in particular to the problem of literary truth. After exploring what such notion might amount to, I move on to address the problems of applicability and triviality of literary truths, and I end by defending literature as a cognitively valuable social practice.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filozofija

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