23-24 November 2015, Uppsala (Sweden)
The recent publication of Derek Matravers’s Fiction and Narrative (OUP, 2014) has called into question many accepted tenets of the recent Philosophy of Fiction. The questions raised include: whether there really is a fiction/non-fiction distinction; whether traditional attempts to draw such a distinction track any interesting differences in the ways in which narratives are produced and/or consumed?; whether there are distinctive philosophical questions about fiction as opposed to narrative more generally; whether there is any interesting connection between fiction and the imagination; whether all narrative works have worlds, like the fictional worlds of novels and stories.
The Department of Philosophy at the University of Uppsala is hosting a two-day workshop on these themes, centred on Matravers’ Fiction and Narrative, and will include panel discussions, commentaries and open sessions.
Speakers:
David Davies (McGill)
Derek Matravers (Open University & Cambridge)
Elisabeth Schellekens (Uppsala)
Kathleen Stock (Sussex)
Kendall Walton (Michigan & Stanford)
Please send abstracts of 250-300 words to Elisabeth.schellekens@filosofi.uu.se by 30th August.