Iris Vidmar
Biographic Data
| ID | 1164432 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Iris Vidmar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Iris |
| FAMILY NAME | Vidmar |
| SIGNATURE | VIDMAR I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Rijeka |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3780-6457 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Screen stories and moral understanding
On the (un)suitability of literature for moral education
In this article, I defend moral aesthetic cognitivism, the view that literature is a valuable source of insights related to morally relevant aspects of our world and that it can significantly contribute to our moral education. I am in particular concerned with counterarguments to this view voiced by Greg Currie, who trashes epistemological foundations of literature and emphasizes the lack of empirical corroboration of cognitivism, and by Peter La…
Literature and Understanding
Detailed, precise and ridden with excellent examples, Jon Phelan’s Literature and Understanding: The Value of a Close Reading of Literary Texts is an inviting and inspiring book that seeks to establish a novel account of the cognitive value of literature. It does this by providing a variety of arguments supporting the educative, cognitive and moral value of literature. Phelan positions himself within the literary cognitivist camp and joins the mi…
Littérature et philosophie
Cet article s’inspire du manuscrit de l’ouvrage de Philip Kitcher, Deaths in Venice: The Cases of Gustav von Aschenbach 3 dans lequel il livre une lecture, d’inspiration philosophique, du roman de Thomas Mann. Mon point de départ est une des thèses soutenues par Kitcher : la philosophie se fait aussi au sein de certaines formes artistiques comme la littérature et la musique. En tant que cognitiviste littéraire, il livre des arguments solides en f…
Big Philosophical Questions
Big philosophical questions—about the mind, the idea of the good, justice, beauty, knowledge—have been the prime interest of philosophers ever since Plato first raised them in his dialogues. However, regardless of how hard philosophers have been trying to find answers to them, it seems that all they have ever managed to do was to find reasons for disagreements, and, on the whole, to have failed to reach a consensus on pretty much anything. Some p…
Literature and Understanding
Detailed, precise and ridden with excellent examples, Jon Phelan’s Literature and Understanding: The Value of a Close Reading of Literary Texts is an inviting and inspiring book that seeks to establish a novel account of the cognitive value of literature. It does this by providing a variety of arguments supporting the educative, cognitive and moral value of literature. Phelan positions himself within the literary cognitivist camp and joins the mi…
Big Philosophical Questions
Big philosophical questions—about the mind, the idea of the good, justice, beauty, knowledge—have been the prime interest of philosophers ever since Plato first raised them in his dialogues. However, regardless of how hard philosophers have been trying to find answers to them, it seems that all they have ever managed to do was to find reasons for disagreements, and, on the whole, to have failed to reach a consensus on pretty much anything. Some p…
Big Philosophical Questions
Big philosophical questions—about the mind, the idea of the good, justice, beauty, knowledge—have been the prime interest of philosophers ever since Plato first raised them in his dialogues. However, regardless of how hard philosophers have been trying to find answers to them, it seems that all they have ever managed to do was to find reasons for disagreements, and, on the whole, to have failed to reach a consensus on pretty much anything. Some p…
Littérature et philosophie
Cet article s’inspire du manuscrit de l’ouvrage de Philip Kitcher, Deaths in Venice: The Cases of Gustav von Aschenbach 3 dans lequel il livre une lecture, d’inspiration philosophique, du roman de Thomas Mann. Mon point de départ est une des thèses soutenues par Kitcher : la philosophie se fait aussi au sein de certaines formes artistiques comme la littérature et la musique. En tant que cognitiviste littéraire, il livre des arguments solides en f…
Literature and Understanding
Detailed, precise and ridden with excellent examples, Jon Phelan’s Literature and Understanding: The Value of a Close Reading of Literary Texts is an inviting and inspiring book that seeks to establish a novel account of the cognitive value of literature. It does this by providing a variety of arguments supporting the educative, cognitive and moral value of literature. Phelan positions himself within the literary cognitivist camp and joins the mi…
On the (un)suitability of literature for moral education
In this article, I defend moral aesthetic cognitivism, the view that literature is a valuable source of insights related to morally relevant aspects of our world and that it can significantly contribute to our moral education. I am in particular concerned with counterarguments to this view voiced by Greg Currie, who trashes epistemological foundations of literature and emphasizes the lack of empirical corroboration of cognitivism, and by Peter La…
Screen stories and moral understanding
Philosophy (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Ethics, Aesthetics, and Art (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Aesthetic Perception and Analysis (1 works) · Cognition (1 works) · Cognitivism (psychology) (1 works)