Gregory Currie

Broschiertes Buch

Imagining and Knowing

The Shape of Fiction

Beschreibung

Gregory Currie defends the view that works of fiction guide the imagination, and then considers whether fiction can also guide our beliefs. He makes a case for modesty about learning from fiction, as it is easy to be too optimistic about the psychological insights of authors, and empathy is hard to acquire while not always morally advantageous.

Autor

Gregory Currie is Professor of Philosophy at the University of York. He was educated at the London School of Economics and at the University of California, Berkeley. He has taught at universities in Australia, New Zealand and the UK, and held visiting positions at the Australian National University, the University of Oxford, and the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS), Paris. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 155mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9780192864680
• ISBN-10: 0192864688
• Artikelnr.: 64106737