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What is Philosophical Fiction? Philosophical fiction is a type of storytelling that does more than take you on a journey with its characters. It cleverly invites you to wrestle with big life questions, like “What makes something right or wrong?” or “How do we find real happiness?”
Nov 12, 2019 · This entry has focused on a number of central issues in the philosophy of fiction: the nature of fiction; what it means to say that something is a truth of fiction; what (and in what sense) we can learn from fiction; and how we can have emotional responses to characters of fiction.
Philosophical fiction is any fiction that devotes a significant portion of its content to the sort of questions addressed by philosophy. It might explore any facet of the human condition, including the function and role of society, the nature and motivation of human acts, the purpose of life, ethics or morals, the role of art in human lives ...
- The Stranger by Albert Camus.
- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
- 1984 by George Orwell.
- The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
Apr 16, 2021 · What is philosophical fiction? Well, that’s something we could argue about! For me, philosophical fiction deals with ideas in a direct way. Sometimes this fiction contains actual philosophizing in it: characters might argue over ideas or a narrator might make a case for a certain way of looking at the world.
- Rebecca Hussey
I will here explore what philosophical fiction is, why philosophy might profit from engaging in it, consider some objections to philosophical fiction writing, and then look at the activities I have organised to help philosophers write fiction.
Jun 19, 2020 · What is Philosophical Fiction? The idea of a philosophical work of fiction is one which, in my view, is much more closely tied to the methods of continental rather than analytic philosophy. It is, after all, difficult to imagine a novel or play based on the ideas of Saul Kripke or David Lewis!
