References
- I will mention some significant exceptions throughout this introduction.
- Giambattista Vico, in particular in his Scienza Nova (1725) where he argues that our imaginative capacity to take on the mode of consciousness of others is required for the purposes of historical understanding, is thus the father figure for writers as diverse as Dilthey and Collingwood.
- Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue (London: Duckworth, 1981) and Daniel C. Dennett, Consciousness Explained (London: Penguin, 1991).
- See Daniel Hutto's paper for references to the key articles in the simulation/theory theory debate.
- For this and related criticisms of simulation theory as applied to understanding narrative fictions see Matthew Kieran, ‘In Search of a Narrative’ in Matthew Kieran and Dominic McIver Lopes (eds.), Imagination, Philosophy and the Arts (London: Routledge, 2003), pp. 69–88.
- See David Velleman, ‘Well-Being and Time’ in his The Possibility of Practical Reason (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2000).
- See Noël Carroll, ‘Art, Narrative and Moral Understanding’ in Jerrold Levinson (ed.), Aesthetics and Ethics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), pp. 128–160, and Martha Nussbaum, ‘Finely Aware and Richly Responsible: Literature and the Moral Imagination’, in her Love's Knowledge (Oxford: New York, 1990), pp. 148–167.
- For such worries see Samantha Vice, ‘Literature and the Narrative Self’, Philosophy, Vol. 78, No. 303, 2003.
- I would like to thank Darren Brierton for many discussions on these issues, Ward Jones for the immense help afforded in his role as general editor and all the contributors for their responsiveness to editorial comments.