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Arts and Minds
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 292

Arts and Minds

Gregory Currie shows that philosophical questions about the arts go naturally with other kinds of questions about them. He offers discussions of such topics as meaning, interpretation, function, genre, character, empathy, imagination, and pretence.

Imagining and Knowing
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 257

Imagining and Knowing

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.

Narratives and Narrators
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 264

Narratives and Narrators

Gregory Currie offers a reflection on the nature and significance of narrative in human communication. He shows that narratives are devices for manifesting the intentions of their makers in stories, argues that human tendencies to imitation and to joint attention underlie the pleasure of narrative, and discusses authorship, character, and irony.

The Nature of Fiction
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 252

The Nature of Fiction

This important book provides a theory about the nature of fiction, and about the relation between the author, the reader and the fictional text. The approach is philosophical: that is to say, the author offers an account of key concepts such as fictional truth, fictional characters, and fiction itself. The book argues that the concept of fiction can be explained partly in terms of communicative intentions, partly in terms of a condition which excludes relations of counterfactual dependence between the world and the text. This communicative model is then applied to the following problems: how can something be 'true in the story' without being explicitly stated in the text? In what ways does i...

Recreative Minds
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 250

Recreative Minds

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2002
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Recreative Minds develops a philosophical theory of imagination that draws upon recent theories and results in psychology. Ideas about how we read the minds of others have put the concept of imagination firmly back on the agenda for philosophy and psychology. Currie and Ravenscroft present atheory of what they call imaginative projection; they show how it fits into a philosophically motivated picture of the mind and of mental states, and how it illuminates and is illuminated by recent developments in cognitive psychology. They argue that we need to recognize a category ofdesire-in-imagination, and that supposition and fantasy should be classed as forms of imagination. They accommodate some o...

Image and Mind
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 334

Image and Mind

This book develops a theory of the nature of the cinematic medium, of the psychology of film viewing, and of film narrative.

An Ontology of Art
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 154

An Ontology of Art

  • Categories: Art
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1989-07-03
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  • Publisher: Springer

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Post-Theory
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 588

Post-Theory

Since the 1970s, the academic study of film has been dominated by Structuralist Marxism, varieties of cultural theory, and the psychoanalytic ideas of Freud and Lacan. With Post-Theory, David Bordwell and Noel Carroll have opened the floor to other voices challenging the prevailing practices of film scholarship. Addressing topics as diverse as film scores, national film industries, and audience response. Post-Theory offers fresh directions for understanding film. Bordwell and Carroll pose a simple question. Why not employ many theories tailored to specific goals, rather than searching for a unified theory that will explain all sorts of films, their production, and their reception? The schola...

Conversations on Art and Aesthetics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 337

Conversations on Art and Aesthetics

  • Categories: Art

What is art? What counts as an aesthetic experience? Does art have to beautiful? Can one reasonably dispute about taste? What is the relation between aesthetic and moral evaluations? How to interpret a work of art? Can we learn anything from literature, film or opera? What is sentimentality? What is irony? How to think philosophically about architecture, dance, or sculpture? What makes something a great portrait? Is music representational or abstract? Why do we feel terrified when we watch a horror movie even though we know it to be fictional? In Conversations on Art and Aesthetics, Hans Maes discusses these and other key questions in aesthetics with ten world-leading philosophers of art: Noel Carroll, Gregory Currie, Arthur Danto, Cynthia Freeland, Paul Guyer, Carolyn Korsmeyer, Jerrold Levinson, Jenefer Robinson, Roger Scruton, and Kendall Walton. The exchanges are direct, open, and sharp, and give a clear account of these thinkers' core ideas and intellectual development. They also offer new insights into, and a deeper understanding of, contemporary issues in the philosophy of art.

Simulation und Fiktion - Gregory Currie:
  • Language: de
  • Pages: 29

Simulation und Fiktion - Gregory Currie: "Anne Bronte and the Uses of Imagination"

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010
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  • Publisher: GRIN Verlag

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2008 im Fachbereich Philosophie - Philosophie des 20. Jahrhunderts / Gegenwart, Note: 2,3, Freie Universität Berlin, Veranstaltung: "Gefühl, Phantasie und Fiktion", Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: 01) Einleitung Literatur - aus philosophischer Perspektive betrachtet - hält einige interessante Fragen und Probleme für uns bereit, zum Beispiel: die Frage nach unserer emotionalen Partizipation an Fiktionen. Was bedeutet es, wenn wir Gefühle empfinden für ein Geschehen, von dem wir im Grunde die ganze Zeit über wissen, dass es nicht real ist? Wie können wir Mitleid oder Hass empfinden für jemanden, der gar nicht existiert? Und wenn wir Angst aufgrund einer Gruselge...