The Aesthetic Mind: Second Conference, Fiction and Cognition

16th June, 2019 - 17th June, 2019
Musée Gutenberg, Place Notre Dame 16, 1700 Fribourg, Salle Gemperlin

    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