Literature as Thought Experiment? : Perspectives from Philosophy and Literary Studies / Sophia Alt, Julia Langkau, Katja Hettich, Vanessa Haazipolo, Johannes Franzen, Arne Willée, Loreen Dalski, Wolfgang Huemer, Caterina Brand, Eva-Maria Konrad, Giulia Agostini, Alexander Fischer, Gottfried Gabriel, Christiane Schildknecht, Ingrid Vendrell Ferran, Stephan Packard, Catherine Elgin, Falk Bornmüller, Mathis Lessau, Falk Bornmüller, Johannes Franzen, Mathis Lessau

• MitwirkendeR: Alt, Sophia; Langkau, Julia; Hettich, Katja; Haazipolo, Vanessa; Franzen, Johannes; Willée, Arne; Dalski, Loreen; Huemer, Wolfgang; Brand, Caterina; Konrad, Eva-Maria; Agostini, Giulia; Fischer, Alexander; Gabriel, Gottfried; Schildknecht, Christiane; Vendrell Ferran, Ingrid; Packard, Stephan; Elgin, Catherine; Bornmüller, Falk; Lessau, Mathis
• HerausgeberIn: Bornmüller, Falk; Franzen, Johannes; Lessau, Mathis
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

Many people share the intuition that by turning to works of literature something can be learned about the world. One way to explain the epistemic access to the world that fictional literature provides is by comparing it to thought experiments. Both - thought experiments and works of fiction - might...