Solo lacrime di coccodrillo per la morte di Han Solo? Vere emozioni per oggetti di finzione
In this paper I aim to show that real emotions can be caused by fictional objects, offering a solution to the so-called “paradox of fiction”. My argument focuses on a critique of the fictionalist solution to Kendall Walton’s “make-believe” problem. In my opinion, we should reject the validity of the...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | deu |
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Mimesis Edizioni, Milano
2017-04-01
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| Series: | Rivista Internazionale di Filosofia e Psicologia |
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| Online Access: | http://www.rifp.it/ojs/index.php/rifp/article/view/rifp.2017.0005/746 |
| Summary: | In this paper I aim to show that real emotions can be caused by fictional objects, offering a solution to the so-called “paradox of fiction”. My argument focuses on a critique of the fictionalist solution to Kendall Walton’s “make-believe” problem. In my opinion, we should reject the validity of the distinction between emotions and “quasi-emotions” and admit that a fictional object can elicit emotional reactions, even if the observer is not present in the scene and is aware that the object eliciting his emotional response is non-existent. Furthermore, I will try to show how pornographic production can serve as a prototypical case to challenge Walton’s arguments. In my opinion the proposed approach could offer a solution to the “paradox of fiction”: a solution based on ontological object theory and further supported by neuroscientific evidence (the neural circuitry of the “as-if body loop”, “Embodied Simulation” theory, and the so-called “bodily and emotional empathy” implemented by “neural mirroring mechanisms”). |
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| ISSN: | 2039-4667 2239-2629 |