Sometimes I Am Fictional
Narrative and Identification
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21550430 |
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| Authors | Alfonso Muñoz-Corcuera (0000-0003-0098-1489, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 403-425 |
| Publication date | 2022-09-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Philosophical Papers (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0556-8641 • E-ISSN: 1996-8523 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/05568641.2022.2103021 |
| OpenAlex | W4302774194 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 19 |
Most analytical philosophers consider that we cannot identify with fictional characters in a literal sense. Specifically, Carroll and Gaut argue that doing so would imply a high degree of irrationality. In this paper I stand for the claim that we can identify with fictional characters thanks to a suspension of disbelief. First, I rely on narrative theories of personal identity to propose a model of how the process of identification might happen in real life. Then, I explain how this model can be adapted to account for the suspension of disbelief that occurs in the special case of identification with fictional characters
Aesthetics · Epistemology · Irrationality · Linguistics · Narrative · Rationality · Sociology · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Mathematics · Narrative Theory and Analysis · Philosophy · Psychology · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
| Highly cited | No |
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