The Aesthetic Mind: Second Conference, Fiction and Cognition

16th June, 2019 - 17th June, 2019
Musée Gutenberg, Place Notre Dame 16, 1700 Fribourg, Salle Gemperlin

16th June, 2019

09:30am -11:00am

Eileen John (Warwick) What is it like to experience
something as fiction?

02:15pm - 03:45pm
María José Alcaraz León (Murcia) More than make-believe: On the uses of imagination in understanding
fictional literature

11:15am -12:45am
Jukka Mikkonen (Tampere)
On the epistemic value of (fictional)
narratives

04:00pm - 05:30pm
Derek Matravers (Open University)
Fiction, internal inconsistency, and belief

17th June, 2019

University, Miséricorde, Avenue de l'Europe 20, 1700 Fribourg, MIS04 4112, Salle Jäggi

09:30am -11:00am

11:15am - 12:45am

Keith Oatley (Toronto)

Stacie Friend (Birkbeck College)
The truth in fiction: Much more Learning emotionally from fiction than most people think

02:15pm - 03:45pm

Peter Lamarque (York) On de-emphasising empathy
among responses to fiction
04:00pm - 05:30pm

Lena Wimmer (Kent) Effects of fiction reading on social cognition: A psychological perspective