The Puzzle of Imaginative Desire.
The puzzle of imaginative desire arises from the difficulty of accounting for the surprising behaviour of desire in imaginative activities such as our engagement with fiction and our games of pretend. Several philosophers have recently attempted to solve this puzzle by introducing a class of novel m...
| Publicado en: | Australasian Journal of Philosophy Vol. 89; no. 3; pp. 421 - 440 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Sep2011
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