The Aesthetic Mind: Second Conference

Fiction and Cognition

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

9:30am-11:00am:
Eileen John (University of Warwick): “What is it like to experience something as fiction?”

11:15am-12:45am:
Jukka Mikkonen (Tampere University): “On the epistemic value of (fictional) narratives”

2:15pm-3:45pm:
María José Alcaraz León (University of Murcia): "More than make-believe: On the uses of                                       imagination in understanding fictional literature”

4:00pm-5:30pm:
Derek Matravers (Open University): “Fiction, internal inconsistency, and belief”

Monday 17th June, 2019
University, Miséricorde, Avenue de l’Europe 20, 1700 Fribourg, MIS04 4112, Salle Jäggi

9:30am-11:00am:
Keith Oatley (University of Toronto): “The truth in fiction: Much more than most people think.”

11:15am-12:45am:
Stacie Friend (Birkbeck College, University of London): “Learning emotionally from fiction”

2:15pm-3:45pm:
Peter Lamarque (University of York): “On de-emphasising empathy among responses to fiction”

4:00pm-5:30pm:
Lena Wimmer (University of Kent): “Effects of fiction reading on social cognition: A psychological
perspective”

Organized by: Patrik Engisch, Tom Kindt, Julia Langkau
The Aesthetic Mind (Fribourg/Goettingen Research Group): https://aestheticmindgroup.wordpress.com

Département de Philosophie / Departement für Philosophie
Département des langues et littératures / Departement für Sprachen und Literaturen
Av. de l’Europe 20, CH-1700 Fribourg