Morals in Fiction and Fictional Morality

Walton, Kendall L.; Tanner, Michael

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“…ere is an important feature of puzzling sentences and propositions that oen goes unnoticed: puzzling propositions are not puzzling in themselves, but puzzling as parts of narratives. 5 Early discussions of resistance phenomena make this feature evident; Walton (1994), Gendler (2000), Yablo (2002), andWeatherson (2004) are all explicit about introducing resistance phenomena with short stories. 6 ey do so because resistance phenomena arise during the mental project of narrative engagements.…”

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“…us, according to these philosophers, asking readers to apply a moral concept differently than they actually would tends to evoke resistance phenomena. Mechanistically, Walton (1994Walton ( , 2006 and Weatherson (2004) focus on the supervenience relations that link higher-level claims to their lower-level bases. Fiction authors can change the lower-level claims that are fictional, but they cannot change the supervenience relations that link higher-level claims, such as moral claims, to their lower-level bases.…”

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“…Section 1 clarifies the phenomena under investigation in three ways: it delineates the different facets of the phenomena, it frames the phenomena under the setting of narrative engagement, and it presents the puzzling data concerning genre differences. Section 2 synthesizes insights from literary theory and experimental psychology to generate a picture of genre's influence on the normative 2 In my view, Gendler (2000Gendler ( , 2006, Walton (1994Walton ( , 2006, Weatherson (2004), and Yablo (2002) all give versions of this diagnosis, which is further discussed in section 3.4. is diagnosis's influence has extended beyond narrow discussions of imaginative resistance.…”

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Imaginative Resistance, Narrative Engagement, Genre

Liao¹

2016

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Imaginative resistance refers to a phenomenon in which people resist engaging in particular prompted imaginative activities. On one influential diagnosis of imaginative resistance, the systematic difficulties are due to these particular propositions' discordance with real-world norms. is essay argues that this influential diagnosis is too simple. While imagination is indeed by default constrained by real-world norms during narrative engagement, it can be freed with the power of genre conventions and expectations.Nothing is more free than the imagination of man, says David Hume in An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding. Our pre-theoretical understanding agrees. In important ways, imagination seems to be the the opposite of belief: unbounded from actuality, free to wander through possibilia, and unconstrained by norms. However, in recent years philosophers have uncovered a curious collection of phenomena that challenges our pre-theoretical understanding of imagination, especially its alleged lack of normative governance. 1 As a first pass, imaginative resistance is the collection of phenomena concerned with people's systematic difficulties with imagining particular propositions, notably morally deviant ones. * I am most thankful to Kendall Walton for his attentive and critical guidance throughout the long development of this essay. For other helpful discussions and comments, I am thankful to

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Imaginative Resistance, Narrative Engagement, Genre

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2016

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“…In order for make-believe to be both comprehensible and enjoyable, there must be at least some overlap with reality-particularly in the concepts a narrative employs. And there are much-discussed limitations on fiction's ability to credibly present concepts, particularly moral ones, as fictional; see Walton 2008. with a doxastic imperative. If we have reason to trust the narrator, then we arguably should take her concepts as applying to reality.…”

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Argument from Personal Narrative: A Case Study of Rachel Moran's Paid For: My Journey Through Prostitution

Dormandy¹

2016

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Personal narratives can let us in on aspects of reality which we have not experienced for ourselves, and are thus important sources for philosophical reflection. Yet a venerable tradition in mainstream philosophy has little room for arguments which rely on personal narrative, on the grounds that narratives are particular and testimonial, whereas philosophical arguments should be systematic and transparent. I argue that narrative arguments are an important form of philosophical argument. Their testimonial aspects witness to novel facets of reality, but their argumentative aspects help us to understand those facets for ourselves. My argument takes the form of a case study of the exemplary narrative argument penned by Rachel Moran, a former prostitute who uses her experiences to argue that prostitution amounts to sexual abuse. We'll see that narrative arguments can enjoy expository advantages over analytic ones.

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“…Los autores (leWis, 1978;Currie, 1990;Walton, 1990;bonomi-zuCChi, 2003;garCía-CarPintero, 2007, por ejemplo) que se han dedicado a esta cuestión han tratado de dar las condiciones de verdad de proposiciones que instancian [F]. Tratan de mostrar que las proposiciones verdaderas de acuerdo con la ficción son aquellas relativas a un mundo en el cual ocurre todo lo que se describe en la novela y, en lo demás, pertenece al conjunto de mundos más cercanos al mundo real compatible con la primera restricción.…”

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Moreso¹

2015

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Este trabajo está dedicado a explorar qué condiciones deben reunir las proposiciones referidas a nuestro mundo real para poder ser combinadas con las proposiciones jurídicas y obtener nuevas proposiciones jurídicas. Las proposiciones jurídicas son el significado de oraciones prefijadas por el operador intensional «Según el derecho». El uso de oraciones con este operador produce interesantes peculiaridades de los razonamientos jurídicos: así, hay proposiciones verdaderas en nuestro mundo que no pueden combinarse con algunas proposiciones jurídicas y hay proposiciones falsas en nuestro mundo que son candidatas a integrar los razonamientos jurídicos. En este sentido, guardan alguna analogía con las proposiciones referidas a la ficción. De este modo se restringe el alcance de la —denominada por Joseph Raz—, tesis de la incorporación, según la cual todo el derecho está basado en las fuentes o implicado por el derecho basado en las fuentes.

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Morals in Fiction and Fictional Morality

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