Imagining and Knowing : The shape of fiction
- Submitting institution
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University of York
- Unit of assessment
- 30 - Philosophy
- Output identifier
- 66335706
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- ISBN
- 9780199656615
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- February
- Year of publication
- 2020
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This 240 page book represents work undertaken over a decade (a contract with OUP was signed in 2010). It examines in considerable depth the capacity of fictional works to generate knowledge and to engage the imagination, asking whether and if so how the first might be achieved via the second. As well as developing a range of philosophical arguments it describes, reviews and assesses the relevance of a great deal of work in cognitive and social psychology and also in neuroscience. It also examines arguments presented by literary theorists and critics.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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