Two-day workshop on the 28th and 29th of November at Collège de France (Paris) on the limits of fiction, organized by François Recanati and Merel Semeijn. Our call for abstract submissions is closed. Please contact us (thelimitsoffiction2024@gmail.com) in case you would like to attend this event.
Workshop theme
This workshop brings together researchers that explore the limits of the concept of ‘fiction’, or the limits of fiction itself. Topics of interest include:
What are limit cases of fiction?
What phenomena can we explain by reference to the ‘fictive stance’ and what phenomenon can we not explain in this way?
Investigations into non-standard/understudied fictions (e.g., metafiction, irony, video-games, virtual reality, fanfiction, etc.) and their theoretical ramifications for philosophy of fiction in general
The fiction/non-fiction border
The relation between fiction and concepts such as ‘illusion’, ‘deception’, ‘dreams’, etc.
The fictional ‘periphery’
Discourses that are not part of a fiction (i.e., not ‘fictional discourse’), but for which the concept of ‘fiction’ or a ‘fictive stance’ may still have some explanatory power (e.g., metafictional, parafictional, interfictional, counterfictional discourse, etc.).
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Keynotes
Stacie Friend (University of Edinburgh) Fiction and Non-fiction: The Borderlands
Enrico Terrone (Università degli Studi di Genova) The Two Borders of Fiction: Believing and Entertaining
Accepted speakers
Sara Bernstein (University of Notre Dame) Borderline Fiction
Manuel García-Carpintero (Universitat de Barcelona) "Fictive Stance" vs. Mere Pretense Views of Fictionality: Explanatory Virtues
Irene Lonigro (University of Milan ‘La Statale’) Lower-Level and Higher-Level Resistance: Towards a Unified Account of Imaginative Resistance
Daniel Nolan (University of Notre Dame) Evaluating Global Fictionalism
Elisa Paganini (University of Milan) Fiction as Non-Assertive Communication
Victor Popa (Ecole Normale Supérieure) The Butterfly Effect
Irene Romero Suarez (Birkbeck College) Do inaccuracies matter in fiction?
Louis Rouillé (FNRS/ULiège) A new "quasi" solution to the paradox of fiction
Mario Slugan (Queen Mary University of London) Fictional Periphery and the Status of Nondiegetic Music and Extradiegetic Narrators
Nele Van de Mosselaer (Tilburg University) Genetic Game Criticism - Uncovering Fictional Truths through Unauthorized Use
Richard Woodward (Humboldt Universität Berlin) Silly Questions
Alternate speaker
Francesco Cagnin (Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia) Moving the boundaries of fiction: between imaginative resistance and collectivity
Feel free to email us in case you have questions: thelimitsoffiction2024@gmail.com