Dr Jessica Eastwood jessica.g.eastwood@durham.ac.uk
PGR Student Doctor of Philosophy
Can fictionalists have a genuine emotional response to religious discourse?
Eastwood, Jessica
Authors
Abstract
The purpose of this article is to suggest that the fictionalist’s emo-tions toward religious discourse could be better supported than the current literature allows. By ‘fictionalist’ I mean those of whom interpret religious discourse as useful fiction. The threefold struc-ture of the article will argue that: (1) the concept of aliefs has been falsely equated with the concept of imagining, (2) the fictionalist ought to adopt a hybrid theory of emotions rather than a cognitive appraisal and, (3) if (1) and (2) are accepted, then key issues con-cerning the genuineness and appropriateness of emotions toward fictional entities can be overcome. I will conclude that something significant is at stake here, and that is whether or not the fictional-ist’s emotions are deemed ‘real’ or not. Thus, to provide the best defence of the fictionalist’s emotions is to: (A) separate that which has been lumped together, that is: quasi emotions and alief-evoked emotions (B) argue for the hybrid account of emotions and, (C) defend the genuine and appropriate nature of fictional emotions.
Citation
Eastwood, J. (2023). Can fictionalists have a genuine emotional response to religious discourse?. International Journal of Philosophy and Theology, 83(5), 339-350. https://doi.org/10.1080/21692327.2022.2137561
Journal Article Type | Article |
---|---|
Acceptance Date | Oct 14, 2022 |
Online Publication Date | Mar 12, 2023 |
Publication Date | 2023 |
Deposit Date | Apr 17, 2023 |
Publicly Available Date | Mar 28, 2024 |
Journal | International Journal of Philosophy and Theology |
Print ISSN | 2169-2327 |
Electronic ISSN | 2169-2335 |
Publisher | Taylor and Francis Group |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 83 |
Issue | 5 |
Pages | 339-350 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1080/21692327.2022.2137561 |
Files
Published Journal Article
(676 Kb)
PDF
Publisher Licence URL
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Copyright Statement
© 2023 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any med-ium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.
You might also like
Theistic expansive naturalism: which God?
(2023)
Journal Article
Downloadable Citations
About Durham Research Online (DRO)
Administrator e-mail: dro.admin@durham.ac.uk
This application uses the following open-source libraries:
SheetJS Community Edition
Apache License Version 2.0 (http://www.apache.org/licenses/)
PDF.js
Apache License Version 2.0 (http://www.apache.org/licenses/)
Font Awesome
SIL OFL 1.1 (http://scripts.sil.org/OFL)
MIT License (http://opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html)
CC BY 3.0 ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)
Powered by Worktribe © 2024
Advanced Search