Stokes, Dustin R (2006) The evaluative character of imaginative resistance. British Journal of Aesthetics, 46 (4). pp. 387-405. ISSN 00070904

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Abstract

A fiction may prescribe imagining that a pig can talk or tell the future. A fiction may prescribe imagining that torturing innocent persons is a good thing. We generally comply with imaginative prescriptions like the former, but not always with prescriptions like the latter: we imagine non-evaluative fictions without difficulty but sometimes resist imagining value-rich fictions. Thus arises the puzzle of imaginative resistance. Most analyses of the phenomenon focus on the content of the relevant imaginings. The present analysis focuses instead on the character of certain kinds of imaginings, arguing that we resist in such cases given the rich evaluative character of the imaginings prescribed, and the agent-dependent constraints on imagining in such ways

Item Type:	Article
Schools and Departments:	School of Engineering and Informatics > Informatics
Depositing User:	EPrints Services
Date Deposited:	11 Feb 2013 10:17
Last Modified:	11 Feb 2013 10:17
URI:	http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/19330

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