{"id":6229,"date":"2025-01-15T10:04:12","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T09:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpd.ugr.es\/~filolab\/wordpress\/?p=6229"},"modified":"2025-01-22T13:38:55","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T12:38:55","slug":"tec-filolab-con-iris-vidmar-jovanovic-aesthetic-experience-and-literary-cognitivism-a-compatibilist-approach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpd.ugr.es\/~filolab\/wordpress\/2025\/01\/15\/tec-filolab-con-iris-vidmar-jovanovic-aesthetic-experience-and-literary-cognitivism-a-compatibilist-approach\/","title":{"rendered":"TeC-FiloLab con Iris Vidmar Jovanovi\u0107: \u00abAesthetic experience and literary cognitivism: a compatibilist approach\u00bb"},"content":{"rendered":"

El martes, 21 de enero, tendr\u00e1 lugar una nueva sesi\u00f3n del seminario TeC-FiloLab. En esta ocasi\u00f3n, nos acompa\u00f1ar\u00e1 Iris Vidmar Jovanovi\u0107<\/a><\/span>, de la Universidad de Rijeka, Croacia. A continuaci\u00f3n ten\u00e9is el t\u00edtulo y el resumen de la charla, as\u00ed como una breve nota sobre el trabajo de Iris.<\/p>\n

\u00abAesthetic experience and literary cognitivism: a compatibilist approach\u00bb<\/strong><\/p>\n

Abstract<\/em>: 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 cognitivism (literary anti-cognitivists) oppose to this view by highlighting a set of problems with it: they challenge the reliability of literary depictions, sincerity and expertise of authors, or the epistemic position of the audience who lacks the skills to judge the truthfulness of fictional literary depictions. One particular challenge, the one I am concerned with in this talk, relates to the aesthetic aspects of literary works and their role in generating cognitive benefits. The claim is that our engagements with a work of art demand aesthetic rather than epistemic stance: in paying attention to the work\u2019s aesthetic features we lose sight of its epistemic ones, and vice versa, if we attend to the work\u2019s epistemic dimension, we are no longer treating it as a work of art.<\/p>\n

My aim here is to argue against these claims and to explore the relevance of an artwork\u2019s aesthetic qualities and the aesthetic experience that we undergo in the process of engagement with the work, for the work\u2019s capacity to engage us cognitively and ethically. I start by analyzing the phenomenology of aesthetic experience to show how it relates to readers\u2019 attention, belief processing, emotional response and pleasure, arguing ultimately for what I call the compatibilist approach: the view that aesthetic and cognitive dimensions are compatible and mutually reinforcing. I rely on the research in cognitive sciences to explain our literary engagements, bringing it in relation to philosophical work on aesthetic experience. In conclusion, I show that the problem of learning from art matters not only within philosophical debates, but, more importantly, within our cultural and educational context. Understanding the interaction between aesthetic and cognitive dimension of our literary experiences is therefore a crucial step in recognizing the important education benefits of literature, as well as those that may be in some way corruptive.<\/p>\n

Bio<\/em>: Iris Vidmar Jovanovi\u0107 is an associate professor and a chair in aesthetics and epistemology at the Department for Philosophy, University of Rijeka, Croatia. She works primarily at the intersection of philosophy of art, ethics and epistemology, with additional interest in Kant\u2019s aesthetics. She is an associate editor of the journal Philosophia and has been a member of the executive committee of European Society for Aesthetics. Her work was published in the Journal of aesthetics and art criticism, the Journal of aesthetic education, Projections, Croatian journal of philosophy, Estetika, etc. She is currently a principal investigator of the research project dedicated to the aesthetic education and humanities (https:\/\/aetna.uniri.hr\/).<\/p>\n\n\n

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