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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Autor principal: Carney, J
Formato: Journal article
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Penn State University Press 2014
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