Cover -- Fictions, Philosophies, and the Problems of Poetics -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- On Art, Language, and Discourse -- On Art, Knowledge, and Truth -- On Art, Knowledge, and Belief -- On Art, Emotion, and Feeling -- On Art, Action, and Praxis 20 -- On Art, the Self, and the Person -- On Art and the World -- 1 FICTIONAL DISCOURSES -- A Standard View of Fictionality: Speech-Act Theory -- The View Applied: Three Nonfictional Texts -- Detailing the Standard View -- Further Difficulties: Conventions and Literary Norms -- Reconstructions -- Reapplying the Theory: Fictionality and Cognition -- Appendix 1A: Genre as a Criterion of Fictionality -- Appendix 1B: Saying, Showing, and Speaking-of -- 2 LITERARY TRUTHS -- Literary Truths -- An Analytic Perspective -- A Hermeneutic Perspective -- A Contrast: Truth as Concept or Event? -- Literary Truths and Quasi-Judgments -- The Notion of Literary Truth -- Appendix 2A: Quasi-Judgments and Predicative Sentences -- Appendix 2B: Literary Truths and Metaphysical Qualities -- 3 MORAL KNOWLEDGE AND FICTION -- Fiction, Knowledge, and Moral Truths -- Fictions and Hypotheses -- Fictions and Moral Beliefs -- Appendix 3A: The Paradox of Abduction -- Appendix 3B: Moral Obligation and Ethical Responsiveness -- 4 FICTIONS AND FEELINGS -- Three Views -- Three Difficulties -- Reference, Truth, and World -- Appendix 4A: A Taxonomy of Reference -- 5 ACTIONS AND POETIC FICTIONS -- Poetry and Action -- Describing Actions Naturalistically -- Describing Actions Phenomenologically -- Intentional Actions and Philosophical Idioms -- Appendix 5A: Action, Immediate Intending, Cognition, and Conation -- Appendix 5B: Action, Imagination, Discourse, and Causes -- Appendix 5C: Actions, Intentions, Events, and Properties -- 6 FICTIONAL SELVES AND VIRTUAL PERSONS.
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