This special issue explores one of the most intriguing puzzles in aesthetics and philosophy of mind: our emotional engagement with fiction. Why do we have emotions toward events and characters we know to be non-existent? And what do these responses reveal about the nature, rationality, and value of emotions? Bringing together leading philosophers and emerging scholars, the volume revisits classic debates – from the paradox of fiction to the appeal of tragedy and horror – while also offering new perspectives on phenomena such as emotional recalcitrance, moral self-knowledge, and the attraction of "junk" fiction. The contributions show how engagement with fiction shapes our emotional lives, evaluative outlooks, and understanding of ourselves. The result is a rich and interdisciplinary dialogue that underscores both the enduring vitality of these questions and their broader significance for theories of emotion, imagination, and knowledge.
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Rivista di Estetica 91
Emotions and Fiction: Philosophical and Psychological Puzzles
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Rivista di Estetica 91
Emotions and Fiction: Philosophical and Psychological Puzzles
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Aesthetics in PhilosophyTable of contents
- Giulio Sacco, Iris Vidmar Jovanovic, Marco Viola - EMOTIONS AND FICTION: PHILOSOPHICAL ANDPSYCHOLOGICAL PUZZLES
- Derek Matravers - FICTION AND EMOTION: WHAT IS THE PROBLEM?
- Stacie Friend, Alex Grzankowski - FICTION, EMOTION, AND RECALCITRANCE
- Dong An - A PRAGMATIST SOLUTION TO THE PARADOX OF FICTION
- Ed Armitage - ANTICIPATORY IMAGINING AND THE PARADOX OF FICTION
- Andrea Scarantino - HOW EMOTIONS ABOUT FICTIONAL OBJECTS MOTIVATEBEHAVIOR
- Fabrice Teroni - EMOTIONS FOR FICTIONAL ENTITIES AND THEIR EPISTEMICROLE
- Diana Craciun - FICTION, EMOTIONS, AND SELF-KNOWLEDGE
- Alfred Archer, Nathan Wildman - LIKE I’VE BEEN THERE BEFORE: THE CONSOLATION OF JUNKFICTION
- Matthew Strohl - CRINGE COMEDY AS SOCIAL HORROR
- Kaci Harrison - PONDERING THE PARADOX: A PLAY THEORY OF PAINFUL ART
- Ying Lan - DREYFUS’S INTERPRETATION OF HEIDEGGER’S ART THEORY:THE ONTOLOGY OF ART IN BACKGROUND PRACTICES1
- Stefano Ferrando - ART, HISTORY, REPRESENTATION, AND CONSCIOUSNESS INEARLY DANTO PHILOSOPHY
- Gabriel Galiano - OTOMO YOSHIHIDE: MUSICISTA O “NOISE-MAKER”? UNALETTURA WITTGENSTEINIANA
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