{"title":"The Epistemic Potential of Boredom: Wilhelm Genazino’s If we were animals as a Thought Experiment","authors":"Loreen Dalski","doi":"10.30965/9783846764299_016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30965/9783846764299_016","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":378245,"journal":{"name":"Literature as Thought Experiment?","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123014747","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Cognitive Value and Ethical Relevance of Fictional Literature","authors":"Gottfried Gabriel","doi":"10.30965/9783846764299_003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30965/9783846764299_003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":378245,"journal":{"name":"Literature as Thought Experiment?","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127972658","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Alternate Lives: Autofictional Thought Experiments in Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis","authors":"J. Franzén","doi":"10.30965/9783846764299_017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30965/9783846764299_017","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":378245,"journal":{"name":"Literature as Thought Experiment?","volume":"120 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133666304","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Imaginative Investigations: Thought Experiments in Science, Philosophy and Literature","authors":"C. Elgin","doi":"10.30965/9783846764299_002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30965/9783846764299_002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":378245,"journal":{"name":"Literature as Thought Experiment?","volume":"116 1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129063813","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Conjugations of the ›What If‹: Golden Age Science Fiction: From Thought Experiment to Narrative Critique","authors":"S. Packard","doi":"10.30965/9783846764299_015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30965/9783846764299_015","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":378245,"journal":{"name":"Literature as Thought Experiment?","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126435168","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Thought Experiments as a Narrative Genre","authors":"A. Willée","doi":"10.30965/9783846764299_008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30965/9783846764299_008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":378245,"journal":{"name":"Literature as Thought Experiment?","volume":"191 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131432091","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Literary Thought Experiment as Emotional Experience: Émile Zola’s Thérèse Raquin (1867)","authors":"Katja Hettich","doi":"10.30965/9783846764299_010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30965/9783846764299_010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":378245,"journal":{"name":"Literature as Thought Experiment?","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116338250","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Physicists by Friedrich Dürrenmatt – a Paradoxical Thought Experiment about Scientific Responsibility","authors":"Sophia Alt, C. Brand, Vanessa Haazipolo","doi":"10.30965/9783846764299_014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30965/9783846764299_014","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":378245,"journal":{"name":"Literature as Thought Experiment?","volume":"304 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114798029","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Power and Limits of a Picture: On the Notion of Thought Experiments in Philosophy of Literature","authors":"W. Huemer","doi":"10.30965/9783846764299_007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30965/9783846764299_007","url":null,"abstract":"Most philosophers, it seems, like things neat and tidy; many hold on to the ideal that we should aim at revealing the deep structures of reality by performing clean cuts that – to use Plato’s oft-quoted metaphor — »carve nature at its joints.«1 They are not likely to accept the very idea that reality might be unstructured, messy, or chaotic, nothing but a »blooming, buzzing confusion,«2 arbitrarily composed of a vast range of phenomena of the most different kinds. According to this image, the unstructured manifold that presents itself to our senses is overwhelming only for the untrained eye of the novice – while the sage, who knows what to look for, can discern the deeper, underlying structure of reality. In order to do so, one has to have attuned oneself – or better: one’s perceptual apparatus – to the relevant aspects of our environment, one has to have figured out which properties indicate or instantiate the deep, underlying structure of reality. The natural sciences, it is often suggested, provide for privileged ways to individuate the properties that should be considered salient – or »élite« – properties,3 and scientific experiments – including thought experiments – are their most powerful means to do so. The philosophers’ fondness of things being neat and tidy also exists in the philosophy of literature. This tendency, in my point of view, sometimes constitutes a serious obstacle for finding the most obvious solutions to the problems that are at the center of debate (and which, incidentally, are often presented in the form of a paradox): It is not always clear (to me) that philosophers who work in the field are willing to appreciate that the very term »literature« does not carve nature – in this case the nature of artifacts or socially constructed phenomena – at its joints. The term is used for a huge variety of phenomena – ranging from historical novels to fairy tales, from autobiography to science fiction, from Greek tragedy to Dadaist poetry. The very conception of literature has changed essentially over the centuries and varies substantially from one culture to another. Moreover, the differences are not only to be located in the text: As Peter Kivy has recently pointed out, there are also great differences among readers (Kivy 2011, 32ff), who approach works of literature with very different interests and expectations. Thus, we should not expect to be able to find a short, clear-cut, and homogeneous answer to the question concerning the nature and value of »literature«; we should rather be prepared to end up with a long, detailed, and multifarious account.","PeriodicalId":378245,"journal":{"name":"Literature as Thought Experiment?","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129283851","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fiction as Thought Experiment?","authors":"C. Schildknecht","doi":"10.30965/9783846764299_004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30965/9783846764299_004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":378245,"journal":{"name":"Literature as Thought Experiment?","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128993965","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}