The Intuitive Cosmology of Fictional Worlds

The Architecture of the Imagination: New Essays on Pretence, Possibility, and Fiction

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Skolnick, Deena ^a   Bloom, Paul ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognition; Development; Fiction; Fictional world; Imagination; Metaphysics; Psychology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920752584     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199275731.003.0005     Document Type: Chapter

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