The Paradox of Fiction and Emotion

22 Abril 2022, 14:00 • Carlos João Correia

The Paradox of Fiction and Emotion

1. Formulating the Paradox
   1. What is the problem?
   2. Clarifying the Belief Requirement
   3. Delineating the paradox
   4. Descriptive vs. Normative challenge
   5. What is fiction?
2. Dead-Ends
   1. Do we only feel moods or non-cognitive affective responses? Not always.
   2. Do we feel counterpart emotions? Not clearly.
   3. Do we believe in the existence of fictional characters? The problem of action tendencies
3. Make-Believe and Quasi-Emotions
   1. Walton and games of make-believe: fiction and quasi-emotions
   2. Currie and the attitude of i-belief/i-desire: fiction and imaginative counterparts
   3. The argument of action tendencies and its problems
   4. Disanalogy: control
   5. Disanalogy: phenomenology
   6. Are there i-desires?
   7. Why believe in quasi-emotions? The path towards Thought theory.