Fiction, Emotion and Imagination

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• Dr Cain Todd, University of Lancaster
• Friday 29 October 2010, 17:30-18:30
• Mill Lane Lecture Room 3.

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This talk looks at the philosophical problem of why we have emotional responses to fictional artworks. In addition to discussing some prominent philosophical accounts, I will outline some of the recent psychological research on the nature of emotions, and assess the idea that there may be a distinctive class of ‘aesthetic emotions’.

This talk is part of the Philosophy Events series.

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