On the Nature of Fiction-Making
Austin or Grice
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4160388 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Manuel Garcia-Carpintero (0000-0001-7674-4944, Universitat de Barcelona, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 59 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 203-210 |
| Publication date | 2019-06-20 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The British Journal of Aesthetics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-0904 • E-ISSN: 1468-2842 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/aesthj/ayy054 |
| OpenAlex | W2947897896 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 3 |
Only Imagine is a wonderful book. Clear and tersely written, it provides a compelling defence of a rather unpopular view (indeed, one usually dismissed without serious appraisal as a non-contender): namely, extreme intentionalism about the determination of fictional content and the nature of fictionality. It thus unquestionably advances the philosophical debate. It is also a pleasure to read for those of us who like fictions and not just the philosophy thereof: Stock discusses for her arguments many examples from real fictions, systematically making perceptive remarks. Here I will respond to an objection that she makes to the normative account that I have defended in previous work, arguing that it has explanatory advantages grounded on the subordination on that account of author-intentions to fictional contents independently determined by social practices. Stock (161–163) engages critically with an alternative view that I have defended in previous work, on which it is not primarily author intentions but norms that determine fictional content and define fictionality.1 However, as I will show first, in spite of initial appearances the differences between our views are not that big. The reason is that my view ascribes a crucial role to intentions, too, and, in fact, like Stock, to the actual intentions of the fiction-maker, as opposed to those of hypothetical constructs of various sorts; while, on the other hand, she is also prepared to assign a comparably important role to fiction-making norms (161
Aesthetics · Content (measure theory · Epistemology · Linguistics · Normative · Pleasure · Realism · Sociology · Subordination (linguistics · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics · Ethics, Aesthetics, and Art · Philosophy · Psychology · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
| Unique citing works | 6 |
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| Citations per year | 0,75 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2023 (6) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |