Iris Vidmar Jovanović
Biographic Data
| ID | 9507056 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Iris Vidmar Jovanović |
| GIVEN NAMES | Iris Vidmar |
| FAMILY NAME | Jovanović |
| SIGNATURE | JOVANOVIĆ I V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Rijeka , Croatia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Learning from the Devil
By accommodating the antihero programs in the context of aesthetic cognitivism on the one hand and philosophical theorizing about evil on the other, I explore insights—ethical goods, as Carl Plantinga refers to them—that these works give us into social and phenomenological aspects of evil, and I argue that they also serve as a philosophical probing of immorality and wickedness. I claim that antihero program is a subgenre of crime fiction and that…
Screen stories and moral understanding
Affective Trajectory of Viewers’ Long-term Engagement with TV Series
Referring to the widespread disappointment over the ending of the Game of Thrones , George R.R. Martin recently cried: “I don't understand how people can come to hate so much something that they once loved.” My aim here is to offer an account that explains this shift in viewers’ emotions, which I refer to as affective trajectory. On my proposal, viewers are attached to a certain work for a considerable amount of time when they care for it and fee…
Perspectivism, Cognitivism, and the Ethical Evaluation of Art
My aim in this article is to explore the role of perspectivism—roughly, the view that works of art prescribe a certain perspective—in aesthetic cognitivism and in the ethical evaluation of art, particularly as it features in the value-interaction debate. Although I am critical of perspectivism's capacity to shoulder an artwork's cognitive and ethical value, I find some of the arguments mounted against it, most notably those by Ted Nannicelli, mis…
Art and Moral Motivation
My aim in this article is to defend the view that art is a relevant source of knowledge, including moral knowledge, in the absence of empirical evidence corroborating this view. In the first part, I discuss what is known as the causal question, that is, the question regarding art's impact on spectators. I argue that the alleged failure of art to impact us may be a matter of moral motivation and the particular circumstances of moral reasoning more…
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…
Becoming Sensible
I agree with Rafe McGregor’s overall intuition regarding the ethical dimension of narratives, and I wholeheartedly applaud his endeavors to support the humanities via his particular methodology. However, there are several issues where we disagree, and I develop these in my commentary. Primarily, I challenge the epistemic framework underlying his theory, his account on the phenomenology of literary engagements, and, what I see as the most problema…
Kant on Poetry and Cognition
This paper lies at the intersection of two problems: one concerning the cognitive status of poetry and one concerning the proper interpretation of Kant’s theory of fine arts. I bring these two together by arguing that Kant was highly sensitive to the cognitive potential of poetry, despite his explicit endorsement of formalism. Therefore, turning to his theory can help us understand one particular way in which poetry fosters our cognitive engageme…
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…
Becoming Sensible
I agree with Rafe McGregor’s overall intuition regarding the ethical dimension of narratives, and I wholeheartedly applaud his endeavors to support the humanities via his particular methodology. However, there are several issues where we disagree, and I develop these in my commentary. Primarily, I challenge the epistemic framework underlying his theory, his account on the phenomenology of literary engagements, and, what I see as the most problema…
Kant on Poetry and Cognition
This paper lies at the intersection of two problems: one concerning the cognitive status of poetry and one concerning the proper interpretation of Kant’s theory of fine arts. I bring these two together by arguing that Kant was highly sensitive to the cognitive potential of poetry, despite his explicit endorsement of formalism. Therefore, turning to his theory can help us understand one particular way in which poetry fosters our cognitive engageme…
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…
Affective Trajectory of Viewers’ Long-term Engagement with TV Series
Referring to the widespread disappointment over the ending of the Game of Thrones , George R.R. Martin recently cried: “I don't understand how people can come to hate so much something that they once loved.” My aim here is to offer an account that explains this shift in viewers’ emotions, which I refer to as affective trajectory. On my proposal, viewers are attached to a certain work for a considerable amount of time when they care for it and fee…
Perspectivism, Cognitivism, and the Ethical Evaluation of Art
My aim in this article is to explore the role of perspectivism—roughly, the view that works of art prescribe a certain perspective—in aesthetic cognitivism and in the ethical evaluation of art, particularly as it features in the value-interaction debate. Although I am critical of perspectivism's capacity to shoulder an artwork's cognitive and ethical value, I find some of the arguments mounted against it, most notably those by Ted Nannicelli, mis…
Art and Moral Motivation
My aim in this article is to defend the view that art is a relevant source of knowledge, including moral knowledge, in the absence of empirical evidence corroborating this view. In the first part, I discuss what is known as the causal question, that is, the question regarding art's impact on spectators. I argue that the alleged failure of art to impact us may be a matter of moral motivation and the particular circumstances of moral reasoning more…
Learning from the Devil
By accommodating the antihero programs in the context of aesthetic cognitivism on the one hand and philosophical theorizing about evil on the other, I explore insights—ethical goods, as Carl Plantinga refers to them—that these works give us into social and phenomenological aspects of evil, and I argue that they also serve as a philosophical probing of immorality and wickedness. I claim that antihero program is a subgenre of crime fiction and that…
Screen stories and moral understanding
Ethics, Aesthetics, and Art (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Cognition (5 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Aesthetic Perception and Analysis (3 works) · Law in Society and Culture (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works)