Supernatural intuitions and classic detective fiction: a cognitivist appraisal
Can detective fiction be illuminated by the psychology of religion? In this article I show (1) that classic detective fiction rhetorically accords the “privileged epistemic access” to mental states that we intuitively assign to punitive supernatural agents to the literary detective; and (2) that vie...
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Penn State University Press
2014
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