Fiction and Thought Experiment - A Case Study.

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  • Author(s): Dohrn, Daniel1 (AUTHOR)
  • Source:
    Teorema. 2016, Vol. 35 Issue 3, p185-199. 15p.
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    • Abstract:
      Many philosophers are very sanguine about the cognitive contributions of fiction to science and philosophy. I focus on a case study: Ichikawa and Jarvis’s account of thought experiments in terms of everyday fictional stories. As far as the contribution of fiction is not sui generis, processing fiction often will be parasitic on cognitive capacities which may replace it; as far as it is sui generis, nothing guarantees that fiction is sufficiently well-behaved to abide by the constraints of scientific and philosophical discourse, not even by the minimum requirements of conceptual and logical coherence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
    • Abstract:
      Muchos filósofos son muy optimistas respecto de la contribución cognitiva de la ficción a la ciencia y a la filosofía. Aquí, me concentro en un caso de estudio: la explicación que dan Ichikawa y Jarvis de los experimentos de pensamiento en términos de las historias de ficción ordinarias. En la medida en que la contribución de la ficción no es algo sui generis, el procesamiento de la ficción será a menudo parásito de la las capacidades cognitivas que pueden reemplazarla; en la medida en que es sui generis, nada garantiza que la ficción se comporta suficientemente bien para acatar las constricciones del discurso del discurso científico y filosófico, por no hablar de los requisitos mínimos de coherencia conceptual y lógica. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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