Naslov
Evaluating Currie’s Aesthetic Anti-cognitivism

Autori
Vidmar Jovanović, Iris

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, neobjavljeni rad, znanstveni

Skup
23rd Rijeka Conference in Philosophy Contemporary Philosophical Issues, Rijeka, 2022

Mjesto i datum
Rijeka/Hrvatska, 07.10.2022

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Domaća recenzija

Ključne riječi
Currie, anti-cognitivism, fiction, learning

Sažetak
Greg Currie recently (2020) launched an extensive attack on aesthetic cognitivism – the view, roughly, that we can learn from fiction and that art is cognitively valuable. Reiterating some of the old arguments (like the problem of the fictional dimension of artistic depictions) and presenting several new ones (like the phenomenon of fictional persuasion), Currie concludes that we have no grounds to accept the view that we can learn from fiction and invites us to reject aesthetic cognitivism as ungrounded. My aim in this paper is to refute his claims and to show that his main arguments can be met and rejected. In the first part I offer several examples of cognitive and ethical benefits available in fictional works, and I proceed to explore how these are generated and supported by the work. I end by sketching viewers’ engagement with fictional works, which, as I argue, supports the view that fiction can be a source of knowledge. My defense of aesthetic cognitivism is grounded in recent research in aesthetic of television, in cognitive sciences and in moral psychology.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filozofija

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