16th June, 2019
09:30am -11:00am
Eileen John (Warwick) What is it like to experience
something as fiction?
02:15pm - 03:45pm
María José Alcaraz León (Murcia) More than make-believe: On the uses of imagination in understanding
fictional literature
11:15am -12:45am
Jukka Mikkonen (Tampere)
On the epistemic value of (fictional)
narratives
04:00pm - 05:30pm
Derek Matravers (Open University)
Fiction, internal inconsistency, and belief
17th June, 2019
University, Miséricorde, Avenue de l'Europe 20, 1700 Fribourg, MIS04 4112, Salle Jäggi
09:30am -11:00am
11:15am - 12:45am
Keith Oatley (Toronto)
Stacie Friend (Birkbeck College)
The truth in fiction: Much more Learning emotionally from fiction than most people think
02:15pm - 03:45pm
Peter Lamarque (York) On de-emphasising empathy
among responses to fiction
04:00pm - 05:30pm
Lena Wimmer (Kent) Effects of fiction reading on social cognition: A psychological perspective