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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unpublished) responding to Friendbs criticisms; and Currie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imagining (also unpublished).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
(See or download poster here)
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Programme
10.00-11.00.
Stacie Friend (Heythrop College, University of London) b
bDefining fiction without imaginationb
Chair: Derek Matravers (Open University / Cambridge)
11.00-11.30. Coffee/tea (provided)
11.30-12.30.
David Davies (McGill University) b bFictive utterance,
fictional works, and fictional narrativesb
Chair: Paloma Atencia-Linares (UCL / LAF co-organiser)
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
Chair: Bence Nanay (Antwerp / Cambridge)
3.00-3.30. Coffee/tea (provided)
3.30-4.30.
Gregory Currie (University of Nottingham) b Fiction and
Imagination
Chair: Emily Caddick (IP / Birkbeck / LAF co-organiser)
4.30-5.30 - Panel Discussion
Chair: Maarten Steenhagen (UCL / LAF co-organiser)
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The London Aesthetics Forum (Institute of Philosophy) is
generously supported by the British Society of Aesthetics
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