TeC-FiloLab con Iris Vidmar Jovanović: «Aesthetic experience and literary cognitivism: a compatibilist approach»
El martes, 21 de enero, tendrá lugar una nueva sesión del seminario TeC-FiloLab. En esta ocasión, nos acompañará Iris Vidmar Jovanović, de la Universidad de Rijeka, Croacia. A continuación tenéis el título y el resumen de la charla, así como una breve nota sobre el trabajo de Iris. "Aesthetic experience and literary cognitivism: a compatibilist approach" Abstract: Literary cognitivism is, roughly, the view that literature is a valuable source of knowledge and other epistemically significant values, such as understanding, and activities, such as perspective-taking. Reading literary works is therefore cognitively beneficial for us and it can also contribute to development of moral sensibility, for example, by showing us complexities of a moral problem we have been unaware of, or by challenging us to reconsider our moral beliefs. Critics of literary…