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634The Island Has Its Reasons: Moral Subjectivism in FictionDialogue 55 (2): 121-124. 2016.Tamar Gendler takes on “explaining our comparative difficulty in imagining fictional worlds that we take to be morally deviant” (56), otherwise known as the puzzle of imaginative resistance. Generally speaking, readers have no trouble believing untrue factual claims such as in Alice in Wonderland or The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, but we resist claims which advocate praise or approval of immoral acts such as murder. Gendler submits that the implied author aims to persuade the reader to cha…Read more
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Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy |
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