Aesthetics (AE)

Aesthetics Reading Group:

Fiction/Reality 

 

Venue: Seminario Ramon Llull (room 4047)  

Date and time: Every two Mondays, 15-17

Convenors: Neri Marsili and Enrico Terrone 

 

 

Documentaries

January 28^th: Terrone, E. (draft). Documentaries, Docudramas and Perceptual Beliefs.

February 4^th:           Friend, S. (2007). The pleasures of documentary tragedy. The British Journal of Aesthetics, 47(2).

 

February 18^th:         Carroll, N. (1983). From real to reel: entangled in nonfiction film. Philosophic Exchange, 14(1), 1.

 

Emotions

March 4^th:             Meskin, A., & Weinberg, J. M. (2003). Emotions, fiction, and cognitive architecture. The British Journal of Aesthetics, 43(1), 18-34.

March 18^th:                   Stock, K.  (2011). Unpacking the boxes: the cognitive theory of imagination and aesthetics. In: Schellekens, E and Goldie, P (eds.) The Aesthetic Mind: Philosophy and Psychology. Oxford University Press, pp.268-282. ISBN 9780199691517

April 1^st:                Cova F. and Teroni F. (2016), Is the Paradox of Fiction Soluble in Psychology?, Philosophical Psychology 29 (6):930-942 (2016)

[secondary, optional reading:  Stock, K. (2014) Physiological Evidence and the Paradox of Fiction (2014) in Aesthetics and the Sciences of Mind, edited by Gregory Currie, Matthew Kieran, Aaron Meskin, and Jon Robson.]

 

What is Fiction?

April 15^th:                    Currie, G. (1985). What is fiction? Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism: 385-392.

April 29^th:                   (NB: two papers) Friend, S.; Stock, K. (2011). Fictive Utterance and Imagining (I and II), Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Volume 85, 145–62.

May 13^th:                     Mikkonen, Jukka. (2010). Implicit Assertions in Literary Fiction. Proceedings of the European Society for Aesthetics 2 (1960): 312–30.

May 27^th:                     García-Carpintero, M. (2013). Norms of Fiction-Making. The British Journal of Aesthetics, 53(3)

 

Learning from Fiction

June 10^th:                   Elgin, C. Z. (2002). Art in the Advancement of Understanding. American Philosophical Quarterly 39 (1)

June 24^st:                    Stolnitz, J. (1992). On the Cognitive Triviality of Art. British Journal of Aesthetics 32: 191–200.

Gibson, John (2003). Between truth and triviality. British Journal of Aesthetics 43 (3):224-237.

July 8^th                       Stock, Kathleen. (2018). Fiction, Testimony, Belief and History. In Art and Belief, edited by E. Sullivan-Bisset, H.Bradley, and P. Noordhof. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

July 22^th:                     Ichino, A. and Currie, G. 2018. Truth and Trust in Fiction. In Art and Belief, edited by E. Sullivan-Bisset, H.Bradley, and P. Noordhof. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

See all Reading Groups