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Why and How Did Narrative Fictions Evolve? Fictions as Entertainment Technologies [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Narrative fictions have surely become the single most widespread source of entertainment in the world. In their free time, humans read novels and comics, watch movies and TV series, and play video games: they consume stories that they know to be false ...
Edgar Dubourg, Nicolas Baumard
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THE PROBLEM OF EXISTENCE OF VIRTUAL OBJECTS FROM THE PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVE [PDF]
Filozofia i Nauka, 2022 I consider the problem of existence of virtual objects, mainly their mode of existence, while omitting the issue of the criteria of their existence. I present and analyze the concepts of modes (forms, kinds) of existence of virtual objects proposed in ...
Mariusz Mazurek
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The B side of imagination: Hume on imperfect ideas [PDF]
Belgrade Philosophical Annual, 2021 My aim is to look into the representational aspect of ideas, exploring not only to what Hume refers as adequate ideas, but also these cases where for a number of reasons an idea does not reach that standard.
Calvente Sofía
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The Problem of Existence of Virtual Objects
Proceedings, 2022 I considered the problem of existence of virtual objects, mainly the mode of existence of these objects, while I omitted the issue of the criteria of their existence.
Mariusz Mazurek
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Representation of reading related elements in compiled and translated adult fictions from 2011 to 2016 [PDF]
کتابداری و اطلاعرسانی, 2022 Objective: The purpose of this paper is to determine the quality of the reading related elements' representation in fictions published in Iran between 2011 and 2016.Methods: Descriptive content analysis carried out for thirty-four of the highest print ...
Maryam Sadat Parastezad +2 more
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Quantifiers and Ontological Fluctuations: A Dialogical and Dynamical Point of View of Existence
Artefactos, 2020 The objective of this article is, from the notion of existence as a function of choice, to propose a dynamic quantifier capable of capturing ontological slides or fluctuations within a logical proof.
Juan Remond
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Democratising and Anticipating Everyday Futures Through Critical Design: A Review of Exemplars
Temes de Disseny, 2020 This article explores design’s relation with the future by analysing a collection of exemplars from design fiction and speculative design for their potential to democratise and anticipate visions of future everyday life in design.
Lenneke Kuijer
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Powerful knowledge? A multidimensional ethical competence through a multitude of narratives
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2020 High-quality education has been considered important for social justice, although what good education means is contested. A project aimed at identifying varieties of conceptions of ethical competence (EthiCo) was presented as well as another that focused
Christina Osbeck
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Legal fictions as ideological source of law
Правоприменение, 2020 The subject. The article studies legal fictions from the point of view of their correlation with ideological sources of law.The purpose of the article is to confirm or disprove hypothesis that legal fictions may be described as one of the ideological ...
Elena V. Abramova
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Fictionalism of Anticipation [PDF]
Biosemiotics, 2021 AbstractA promising recent approach for understanding complex phenomena is recognition of anticipatory behavior of living organisms and social organizations. The anticipatory, predictive action permits learning, novelty seeking, rich experiential existence.
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