Currie, Gregory Department of Philosophy, University of Nottingham
Print publication date: 2004 (this edition)
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2005
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-925628-0
doi:10.1093/0199256284.003.0010
Gregory Currie
We need to distinguish between the claim that engagement with a fiction requires imagination, and the claim that such engagement requires empathetic identification with characters. Argues that the first claim is certainly true. What of the second? Some criticism of it is valid; there are occasions on which we engage with a fiction perfectly well without empathising. Still, empathy is important for engaging with some parts of some fictions; The author illustrates this with Anne Brontë's The Tenant of Windfell Hall.
Keywords: Anne Brontë, emotion, empathy, imagination, simulation,
doi:10.1093/0199256284.003.0010
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Part I Ontology
Part II Interpretation
Part III Mind