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Scientific counterfactuals as make-believe. [PDF]
Synthese, 2022 AbstractCounterfactuals abound in science, especially when reasoning about and with models. This often requires entertaining counterfactual conditionals with nomologically or metaphysically impossible antecedents, namely, counternomics or counterpossibles. In this paper I defend the make-believe view of scientific counterfactuals, a naturalised fiction-
Iranzo-Ribera N.
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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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Spectrum, 2021 To what extent, and in what ways, is it possible for works of fiction to influence their readers’ ethical development? In this essay, I explore different answers to this descriptive question in philosophy and literary studies. I dub a view shared by Iris
Jonah Dunch
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The Meanings of Fictional Names [PDF]
Organon F, 2021 According to Millianism, the meaning of a name is exhausted by its referent. According to anti-realism about fictional entities, there are no such entities.
Fiora Salis
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“Far finta”, raffigurare, narrare: uno sguardo su Mimesi come far finta di Kendall Lewis Walton
Aisthesis, 2015 Il saggio descrive e analizza la teoria della rappresentazionalità presentata da Kendall Walton in Mimesi come far finta. Le rappresentazioni sono supporti atti a suscitare un far finta che si esplica come un immaginare proposizionale: ecco la tesi dell ...
Chiara Bisignano
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Playing Make-Believe with #homemadeDisney Pandemic Ride Videos
Eludamos, 2021 In response to the closing of the Walt Disney theme parks at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, fans of Disneyland and Walt Disney World produced videos re-creating their favorite rides and attractions for a viral social media trend dubbed ...
Bobby Schweizer
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Ergo, An Open Access Journal of Philosophy, 2023 According to widely accepted views in metasemantics, the outputs of chatbots and other artificial text generators should be meaningless. They aren’t produced with communicative intentions and the systems producing them are not following linguistic ...
Fintan Mallory
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Simulation-based education: deceiving learners with good intent
Advances in Simulation, 2022 The level of performance of every clinician and of the overall multiprofessional team relies on the skills and expertise they have individually and collectively acquired through education, training, self-directed learning, and reflection.
Guillaume Alinier, Denis Oriot
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, 2020 „Make Believe“ verdankt sich dem Programm des Kunstvereins Hildesheim von 2019. Bilderreich dokumentiert das Jahrbuch die von artist-as-curator Lotte Reimann co-kuratierte Gruppenausstellung „spread:!“ mit Arbeiten von Ruth van Beek, Thomas Mailaender, Anika Schwarzlose, Erik van der Weijde und Mariken Wessels, die Einzelausstellung „Observatorium“ von
Rosengarth, Charlotte, Scheid, Torsten
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