Truth in fiction : rethinking its logic : the Istanbul lectures / John Woods.

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Truth in fiction : rethinking its logic : the Istanbul lectures / John Woods.

9783319726588 (electronic book)
3319726587 (electronic book)
3319726579
9783319726571

Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2018]

English

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BC199.F5

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This monograph examines truth in fiction by applying the techniques of a naturalized logic of human cognitive practices. The author structures his project around two focal questions. What would it take to write a book about truth in literary discourse with reasonable promise of getting it right? What would it take to write a book about truth in fiction as true to the facts of lived literary experience as objectivity allows? The naturalized logic of 'Truth in fiction' jettisons some of the standard assumptions and analytical tools of contemporary philosophy, chiefly because the neurotypical linguistic and cognitive behaviour of humanity at large is at variance with them. Using the resources of a causal response epistemology in tandem with the naturalized logic, the theory produced here is data-driven, empirically sensitive, and open to a circumspect collaboration with the empirical sciences of language and cognition.

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