A New Approach to the Paradox of Fiction
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.33043/S.4.1.91-101Keywords:
philosophy, paradox, fiction, waltonAbstract
It seems that an intuitive characterization of our emotional engagement with fiction contains a paradox, which has been labelled the ‘Paradox of Fiction’. Using insights into the nature of mental content
gained from the disjunctive theory of perception I propose a novel solution to the Paradox, explained and motivated by reference to Kendall Walton’s influential account of fictionality. Using this insight I suggest that we can take the phenomenology of fictional engagement seriously in a way not allowed by Walton.
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