Resisting Imaginative Resistance
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4352207 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kathleen Stock (0000-0001-7474-238X, University of Sussex, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 55 |
| Issue | 221 |
| Pages | 607-624 |
| Publication date | 2005-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Philosophical Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-8094 • E-ISSN: 1467-9213 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.0031-8094.2005.00419.x |
| OpenAlex | W2034463207 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 4 |
Recently, philosophers have identified certain fictional propositions with which one does not imaginatively engage, even where one is transparently intended by their authors to do so. One approach to explaining this categorizes it as ‘resistance’, that is, as deliberate failure to imagine that the relevant propositions are true; the phenomenon has become generally known (misleadingly) as ‘the puzzle of imaginative resistance’. I argue that this identification is incorrect, and I dismiss several other explanations. I then propose a better one, that in central cases of imaginative failure, the basis for the failure is the contingent incomprehensibility of the relevant propositions. Why the phenomenon is especially commonplace with respect to moral propositions is illuminated along the way
Aesthetics · Epistemology · Identification (biology) · Phenomenon · Resistance (ecology) · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Philosophy · Psychology · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
What Belongs in a Fictional World
Imaginative contagion and moral corruption
Cognition in Aristotle's Poetics
Imaginative Resistance Revisited
Hume and Kant on imaginative resistance
Moral dumbfounding and imaginative resistance
Morality and the imagination
A Sensibilist Explanation of Imaginative Resistance
Sympathy for the Devil
Are there some things it is morally wrong to make-believe? An examination of imaginative resistance as a measure of the morality of pretence
Imagining and Fiction
| Unique citing works | 11 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,55 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2025 (20) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |