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Are there some things it is morally wrong to make-believe? An examination of imaginative resistance as a measure of the morality of pretence [PDF]
Cogent Arts & Humanities, 2015 This paper discusses the morality of make-believing deviant moral truths within the context of fictional narratives (e.g. make-believing that the killing of innocent people is a morally good thing to do).
Garry Young
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Twofold pictorial experience, propositional imagining and recognitional concepts: a critique of Walton’s visual make-believe [PDF]
Phenomenology and Mind, 2018 Kendall Walton has defined pictorial experience as a visual game of make-believe, which consists in imagining our actual seeing the representational prop to be a fictional face to face seeing the represented subject.
Marco Arienti
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The ontology of theoretical modelling: models as make-believe [PDF]
, 2009 publication-status: Publishedtypes: ArticleThe descriptions and theoretical laws scientists write down when they model a system are often false of any real system. And yet we commonly talk as if there were objects that satisfy the scientists’ assumptions
Adam Toon
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Religious Credences as Hinges: A Commentary on Van Leeuwen's Religion as Make-Believe
ZygonIn this commentary, we critically discuss Neil van Leeuwen’s book Religion as Make-Believe: A Theory of Belief, Imagination, and Group Identity.
Alberto Cavallarin, Hans Van Eyghen
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Scientific counterfactuals as make-believe [PDF]
SynthÈse, 2022 Noelia Iranzo-Ribera
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Between, 2019 The essay analyzes the relationships between the fictions of eros and, especially, of adultery, and the “fictional worlds” of literature (Pavel), focusing on the period from late Humanism (Boccaccio's Decameron and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales) to ...
Chiara Lombardi
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Beliefs, make-beliefs, and making believe that beliefs are not make-beliefs
SynthÈse, 2021 Alberto Voltolini
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Registration Make-Believe and Forgery – Swift 1st v Chief Land Registrar [PDF]
, 2015 This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Sweet & Maxwell in The Law Quarterly Review, Vol. 131, pp. 515-519.
Emma Lees
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BOOK REVIEW: Magic, Monsters, and Make-Believe Heroes: How Myth and Religion Shape Fantasy Culture
Fafnir, 2020 Cowan, Douglas E. Magic, Monsters, and Make-Believe Heroes: How Myth and Religion Shape Fantasy Culture. U of California P, 2019. ISBN 978-0520293991.
A. J. Drenda
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