Videogames and interactive fiction

Philosophy and Literature

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 24-40

  Tavinor, Grant ^a  

^a LINCOLN UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

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EID: 60950606534     PISSN: 01900013     EISSN: 1086329X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/phl.2005.0015     Document Type: Review

References (11)

1. Kendall Walton, Mimesis as Make-Believe (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1990), pp. 144-69
2. There is good reason to think that they are declarative utterances; see Gregory Currie, The Nature of Fiction (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990), pp. 19-20
3. Shaun Nichols and Stephen Stich, "A Cognitive Theory of Pretense," Cognition 74 (2000): 115-47
4. Gregory Currie, "The Moral Psychology of Fiction," in Art and its Messages, Stephen Davies, ed. (University Park, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997), p. 53
5. Steven Poole, Trigger Happy: The Inner Life of Videogames (London: Fourth Estate, 2000), pp. 112-14
6. Daniel Dennett's discussion of hallucinations is a treatment of a similar problem; in fact Dennett explicitly notes the connection D. C. Dennett, Consciousness Explained (London: Penguin Books, 1991), pp. 5-6
7. Anthony Damasio, Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain (New York: Avon Books, 1994); hereafter abbreviated DE
8. Anthony Damasio, The Feeling of What Happens: Body, Emotion, and the Making of Consciousness (London: Vintage Books, 1999)
9. Paul Griffiths, What Emotions Really Are (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997)
10. Alex Neill, "Fiction and the Emotions," American Philosophical Quarterly 30 (1993): 254-55
11. Susan Feagin, Reading with Feeling (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1996)