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The Cognitive Value of Philosophical Fiction
Can literary fictions convey significant philosophical views, understood in terms of propositional knowledge? This study addresses the philosophical value of literature by examining how literary works impart philosophy truth and knowledge and to what extent the works should be approached as communications of their authors. Beginning with theories of fiction, it examines the case against the prevailing ‘pretence’ and ‘make-believe’ theories of fiction hostile to propositional theories of literary truth. Tackling further arguments against the cognitive function and value of literature, this study illustrates how literary works can contribute to knowledge by making assertions and suggestions and by providing hypotheses for the reader to assess. Through clear analysis of the concept of the author, the role of the authorial intention and the different approaches to the ‘meaning’ of a literary work, this study provides an historical survey to the cognitivist-anti-cognitivist dispute, introducing contemporary trends in the discussion before presenting a novel approach to recognizing the cognitive function of literature. An important contribution to philosophical studies of literature and knowledge.
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On Studying the Cognitive Value of Literature
The debate on the cognitive value of literature is undergoing a change. On the one hand, several philosophers recommend an epistemological move from \"knowledge\" to \"understanding\" in describing the cognitive benefits of literature. On the other hand, skeptics call for methodological discussion and demand evidence for the claim that readers actually learn from literature. These two ideas, the notion of understanding and the demand for evidence, seem initially inconsistent, for the notion of understanding implies that the cognitive benefits of literature are ultimately nonverbal and thus inarticulate. In this article, I defend both the move from knowledge to understanding and the demand for evidence. After proposing that the cognitive value of literature is best construed in terms of enhancing the reader's understanding, I argue that the place to look for evidence for the cognitive benefits of literature is not the laboratory but the practice of literature.
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Detection of the effective refractive index of thermally modified Scots pine by immersion liquid method
The purpose of this study was to determine the effective refractive index of thermally modified Scots pine (
Pinus sylvestris
L.) wood specimens as a quantitative measure regarding the change of wood density which is due to the thermal modification. The refractive index of thermally modified Scots pine wood was obtained by introducing pine wood powder into an immersion liquid and measuring light backscattering with a homebuilt multifunction spectrophotometer. The present method provides useful information that in principle can be applied, for example, in the optimization of the thermal modification process and inspection of the quality of thermally modified wood.
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Sutrop on literary fiction-making: defending Currie
In her study
(2000), Margit Sutrop criticizes Gregory Currie’s theory of fiction-making, as presented in
, for using an inappropriate conception of the author’s ‘fictive intention.’ As Sutrop sees it, Currie is mistaken in reducing the author’s fictive intention to that of achieving a certain response in the audience. In this paper, I shall discuss Sutrop’s theory of fiction-making and argue that although her view is insightful in distinguishing the illocutionary effect and the perlocutionary effect in the author’s fictive intention, there are flaws in it. My aim is to show that, first, Sutrop’s critique of Currie’s view is misguided and, second, her own definition of fiction as the author’s expression of her imagination is problematic in not distinguishing literary fiction-making from other discursive functions and in dismissing the literary practice which regulates the production of literary fictions.
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Sutrop on literary fiction-making: defending Currie
In her study Fiction and Imagination: The Anthropological Function of Literature
(2000), Margit Sutrop criticizes Gregory Currie s theory of fictionmaking,
as presented in The Nature of Fiction (1990), for using an inappropriate
conception of the author s fictive intention. As Sutrop sees
it, Currie is mistaken in reducing the author s fictive intention to that of
achieving a certain response in the audience. In this paper, I shall discuss
Sutrop s theory of fiction-making and argue that although her view is
insightful in distinguishing the illocutionary effect and the perlocutionary
effect in the author s fictive intention, there are flaws in it. My aim is to
show that, first, Sutrop s critique of Currie s view is misguided and, second,
her own definition of fiction as the author s expression of her imagination
is problematic in not distinguishing literary fiction-making
from other discursive functions and in dismissing the literary practice
which regulates the production of literary fictions.
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