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Subject: [AE] IP LAF | 1 MAY : Workshop on the Nature of Fiction
London Aesthetics Forum (Institute of Philosophy)
Wednesday, 1 May 2013 | 10am to 5.30pm
Senate Room, Senate House | Malet Street London, WC1E 7HU
Workshop on the Nature of Fiction
Gregory Currie B7 David Davies B7 Stacie Friend B7 Kathleen
Stock
The aim of this one-day workshop is to bring together four
philosophers who have been engaged in a significant debate over
the nature of fiction over the last several years. The most
popular theory of fiction today, both within aesthetics and in
other philosophical domains, is the bfictive utteranceb account
(inspired by Walton's account of fiction/representational art in
terms of prescriptions of imagine). According to the 'fictive
utterance' theory, first articulated in detail by Gregory Currie
in The Nature of Fiction (1990), fictionality turns essentially on
the authorbs intention to invite imagining. In publications in
1996 and 2001, David Davies developed a distinctive version of the
same view, and in a 2008 paper Stacie Friend criticized both
Currie and Davies, arguing that the invitation to imagine provides
neither necessary nor sufficient conditions for fictionality.
Kathleen Stock then defended a version of the fictive utterance
theory designed to avoid Friendbs objections, to which Friend
replied, in a Joint Session plenary symposium (2011). Since then
Friend has proposed an alternative approach to fiction (2012);
Stock and Davies have written papers (as yet unpublished)
responding to Friendbs criticisms; and Currie has reconsidered the
relationship between fiction and imagining (also unpublished).
This event is free and open to all but registration is
required. Please register via the London Aesthetics Forum
website
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Programme
10.00-11.00.
Stacie Friend (Heythrop College, University of London) b
bDefining fiction without imaginationb
11.00-11.30. Coffee/tea (provided)
11.30-12.30.
David Davies (McGill University) b bFictive utterance, fictional
works, and fictional narrativesb
12.30-2.00. Lunch (own arrangements)
2.00-3.00.
Kathleen Stock (University of Sussex) b bThe nature of fiction:
Why be generic when you can be imaginative?b
3.00-3.30. Coffee/tea (provided)
3.30-4.30.
Gregory Currie (University of Nottingham) b Fiction and
Imagination
4.30-5.30 - Panel Discussion
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The London Aesthetics Forum (Institute of Philosophy) is
generously supported by the British Society of Aesthetics
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