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Recent philosophy and the fiction/non-fiction distinction [PDF]
, 2018 Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of recent philosophical argument concerning the distinction between fiction and non-fiction. Design/methodology/approach - A critical view of the literature.
Matravers, Derek
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System-determining legal prescriptions
Антиномии, 2019 In the legal doctrine, there is no consensus on the legal nature and the name of the legal prescriptions that do not establish rights, duties and prohibitions. Some legal scholars call them specialized, and refer to the legal norms, other legal scholars
Ekaterina E. Lekanova
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Finzioni, 2021 The essay provides an archaeological reconstruction of the concept of “fiction” in Italian criticism of the second half of the twentieth century, from the different but complementary reflections of Ezio Raimondi and Gianni Celati, two of the most ...
Marco Antonio Bazzocchi
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Book Review of "Climate Change Fictions: Representations of Global Warming in American Literature"
, 2018 Book review of Antonia Mehnert's Climate Change Fictions: Representations of Global Warming in American Literature.Resumen Resena de Climate Change Fictions: Representations of Global Warming in American Literature de Antonia Mehnert.
Tatiana Prorokova
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Fictional Game Elements: Critical Perspectives on Gamification Design [PDF]
, 2016 Gamification has been widely accepted in the HCI community in the last few years. However, the current debate is focused on its short-term consequences, such as effectiveness and usefulness, while its side-effects, long-term criticalities and systemic ...
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Network Fictions and the Global Unhomely
C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-century Writings, 2016 The paper suggests that the increasing proliferation of network fictions in literature, film, television and the internet may be interpreted through a theoretical framework that reconceptuallises the originally strictly psychoanalytic concept of the ...
Aris Mousoutzanis
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From Models-as-Fictions to Models-as-Tools
, 2017 Many accounts of scientific modeling conceive of models as fictions: scientists interact with models in ways analogous to various aesthetic objects. Fictionalists follow most other accounts of modeling by taking them to be revelatory of the actual world ...
A. Currie
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Grazer Philosophische Studien, 2019 The author of this paper contrasts the account he favors for how fictions can convey knowledge with Green’s views on the topic. On the author’s account, fictions can convey knowledge because fictional works make assertions and other acts such as ...
M. García‐Carpintero
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, 2023 A fictionalist theory is a theory that concerns a particular sphere of discourse, and is meant to encompass three theoretical virtues: a naturalistic ontology; an antirevisionary attitude concerning our discursive practices; and the ability to foster semantic uniformity across discursive spheres.
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Malaria and Victorian Fictions of Empire
, 2018 www.cambridge.org © in this web service Cambridge University Press The impact of malaria on humankind has been profound. Focusing on depictions of this iconic “disease of empire” in nineteenthcentury and postcolonial fiction, Jessica Howell shows that ...
Jessica M. Howell
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