Art and Belief
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 26 October 2017
- ISBN 9780198805403
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages268 pages
- Size 241x165x23 mm
- Weight 568 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Art and Belief presents new work at the intersection of philosophy of mind and philosophy of art. Topics include the cognitive contributions artworks can make, the phenomenon of fictional persuasion, and the nature of aesthetic testimony, and the relation between belief and truth in our experience of art.
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Art and Belief presents twelve new essays at the intersection of philosophy of mind and philosophy of art, particularly to do with the relation between belief and truth in our experience of art. Several contributors discuss the cognitive contributions artworks can make and the questions surrounding these. Can authors of fiction testify to their readers? If they can, are they culpable for the false beliefs of their readers formed in response to their work? If they cannot, that is, if the testimonial powers of authors of fiction are limited, is there some non-testimonial epistemic role that fiction can play? And in any case, is such a role relevant when determining the value of the work?
Also explored are issues concerned with the phenomenon of fictional persuasion, specifically, what is the nature of the attitude involved in such cases (those in which we form beliefs about the real world in response to reading fiction)? If these attitudes are typically unstable, unjustified, and unreliable, does this put pressure on the view that they are beliefs? If these attitudes are beliefs, does this put pressure on the view that all beliefs are aimed at truth?
The final pair of papers in the volume take different stances on the nature of aesthetic testimony, and whether testimony of this kind is a legitimate source of beliefs about aesthetic properties and value.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
SECTION I: Author Testimony
Fiction, Testimony, Belief, and History
Signposts of Factuality
Truth and Trust in Fiction
SECTION II: Non-Testimonial Epistemic Contributions of Fiction
Literary Fiction and True Beliefs
Belief, Thought and Literature
Imagination that Amounts to Knowledge from Fiction
The Novel as a Source for Self-Knowledge
SECTION III: Belief, Truth, and Attitudes from Fictional Persuasion
Fictional Persuasion, Transparency, and the Aim of Belief
Fictional Persuasion and the Nature of Belief
The Genuine Attitude View of Fictional Belief
SECTION IV: Aesthetic Appreciation and Belief
Against Aesthetic Exceptionalism
Don't Take my Word for It: On Beliefs, Affects, Reasons, Values, Rationality, and Aesthetic Testimony
