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The nature of fictional testimony and its role in reaching, fulfilling and promoting our epistemic aims and values
doctoral dissertation
Rijeka: University of Rijeka, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2013. urn:nbn:hr:188:452285
Vidmar, Iris
University of Rijeka
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Department of Philosophy

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Vidmar, I. (2013). The nature of fictional testimony and its role in reaching, fulfilling and promoting our epistemic aims and values : doctoral dissertation (Doctoral thesis). Rijeka: University of Rijeka, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. Retrieved from https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:188:452285

Vidmar, Iris. "The nature of fictional testimony and its role in reaching, fulfilling and promoting our epistemic aims and values : doctoral dissertation." Doctoral thesis, University of Rijeka, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2013. https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:188:452285

Vidmar, Iris. "The nature of fictional testimony and its role in reaching, fulfilling and promoting our epistemic aims and values : doctoral dissertation." Doctoral thesis, University of Rijeka, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2013. https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:188:452285

Vidmar, I. (2013). 'The nature of fictional testimony and its role in reaching, fulfilling and promoting our epistemic aims and values : doctoral dissertation', Doctoral thesis, University of Rijeka, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, accessed 05 April 2025, https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:188:452285

Vidmar I. The nature of fictional testimony and its role in reaching, fulfilling and promoting our epistemic aims and values : doctoral dissertation [Doctoral thesis]. Rijeka: University of Rijeka, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences; 2013 [cited 2025 April 05] Available at: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:188:452285

I. Vidmar, "The nature of fictional testimony and its role in reaching, fulfilling and promoting our epistemic aims and values : doctoral dissertation", Doctoral thesis, University of Rijeka, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Rijeka, 2013. Available at: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:188:452285

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TitleThe nature of fictional testimony and its role in reaching, fulfilling and promoting our epistemic aims and values : doctoral dissertation
Title (croatian)Priroda fikcijskog svjedočanstva i njegova uloga u postizanju, ispunjavanju i promicanju epistemoloških ciljeva i vrijednosti
AuthorIris Vidmar
MentorSnježana Prijić-Samaržija (mentor)
Committee memberElvio Baccarini (predsjednik povjerenstva)
Committee memberSnježana Prijić-Samaržija (član povjerenstva)
Committee memberPetar Bojanić (član povjerenstva)
MBZ: 00000000001
GranterUniversity of Rijeka
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
(Department of Philosophy)
Rijeka
Defense date and country2013-10-18, Croatia
Scientific / art field,
discipline and subdiscipline		HUMANISTIC SCIENCES
Interdisciplinary Humanistic Studies
Universal decimal classification
(UDC)		82 - Literature. Comparative literature
Abstract
In this dissertation I analyze the problem of cognitive value of literary works and literary practice. My starting point is the symmetry that I claim exists between cognitive values traditionally ascribed to literary works and cognitive states that contemporary epistemology finds valuable and desirable. In that sense, the backbone of dissertation is bringing together of the literary cognitivism (the view according to which literature and literary works are cognitively valuable) and the so... More called plurality view of epistemic aims and values (according to which truth and knowledge are not the only epistemic aims we aspire to reach). Cognitive value of literature is manifested along two lines. The first one, which I call direct humanism, is based on the idea that literature offers us concrete knowledge about the world and people. This is what grounds the distinctive humanistic aspect of literature: engaging with literature is important in that it gives us knowledge of those things that primarily matter to us as human beings. The second one, the line of indirect humanism, is manifested in the way that literature influences the cognitive economy of the cognizers. Literature helps us deepen the knowledge we already have, makes us aware of the complexities of moral, psychological, political, sexual interactions, it helps us gain understanding of those phenomena that it brings to view, thus enabling us to increase the body of beliefs and knowledge we have at our disposal when we thing about the world and ourselves. In order to defend this claim, I have to show what the underlying mechanism of generating and transferring knowledge is, that is, which epistemically recognized mechanism makes it possible for us to learn from literature. In order to show this, I develop the analogy with testimony: the central claim of the thesis is that literary works are a specific kind of testimony. This is the original scientific contribution of my work: on the one hand, I show how testimony contributes to the plurality view of epistemic aims and values advocated for by the contemporary epistemology. On the other hand, insisting on this analogy creates the need to show how the author of a literary work can satisfy the conditions for sincerity and reliability that the testifier in non-fictional testimony has to satisfy. Answering this question also shows the untenability of anti-cognitivism, primarily advocated for by Plato. Once I show this, I turn my attention to the figure of reader-as-audience which profits cognitively in the process of reading, both, in the sense specified by direct and indirect humanism. Thus, I show the unique way in which literature contributes cognitively to reaching, fulfilling and promoting our epistemic aims and values. Less
Abstract (croatian)
U doktorskoj disertaciji bavim se problemom kognitivne vrijednosti književnih djela i književne prakse. Moje je temeljno polazište simetrija za koju tvrdim da postoji između kognitivnih vrijednosti tradicionalno pripisivanih književnim djelima i kognitivnih stanja koje suvremena epistemologija smatra poželjnima i vrijednima. U tom je smislu okosnica disertacije spoj književnoga kognitivizma (stajališta prema kojem su književnost i književna djela kognitivno vrijedni) i takozvanoga... More pluralističkoga stajališta o epistemološkim ciljevima i vrijednostima prema kojem istina i znanje nisu jedini epistemološki ciljevi kojima kao spoznavaoci težimo. Kognitivna vrijednost književnosti očituje se na dvije osi. Prva os, koju nazivam direktni humanizam, temelji se na ideji da nam književnost nudi konkretna znanja i spoznaje o svijetu i čovjeku. U tome se sastoji razlikovni humanistički aspekt književnosti: bavljenje književnošću važno je zato što nam daje spoznaje o onim stvarima koje su nam, kao ljudima, od primarnog značaja. Druga os, os indirektnoga humanizma, reflektira se u načinu na koji književnost djeluje na kognitivni aparat spoznavaoca. Književnost nam pomaže da produbimo znanja koja već imamo, da osvijestimo kompleksnost moralnih, psiholoških, političkih, seksualnih interakcija u koje ulazimo, da dođemo do razumijevanja o onim fenomenima kojima se određeno književno djelo bavi i da na taj način povećamo sustav vjerovanja i znanja koje imamo na raspolaganju kada promišljamo o svijetu i samima sebi. Kako bih obranila ovaj stav, potrebno je pokazati koji je to pozadinski mehanizam generiranja i prenošenja znanja, odnosno koji nam epistemološki priznat mehanizam spoznaje omogućuje učenje iz književnosti. U tu svrhu razvijam analogiju sa svjedočanstvom: centralna je teza disertacije da su književna djela svojevrsno svjedočanstvo. U ovome se vidi i izvorni znanstveni doprinos mojega rada: s jedne strane pokazujem na koji način svjedočanstvo doprinosi pluralističkim ciljevima koje suvremena epistemologija zastupa. S druge strane, analogija sa svjedočanstvom nameće nam potrebu da pokažemo na koji način autor književnoga djela može zadovoljiti zahtjeve iskrenosti i pouzdanosti koji se postavljaju pred svjedoka u ne-fikcijskom svjedočanstvu. Odgovor na to pitanje ujedno pokazuje neodrživost antikognitivističkoga stava primarno zastupljenoga kod Platona. Jednom kada sam to pokazala, okrećem se čitatelju kao publici koja kognitivno profitira u procesu čitanja i to na nivou osi direktnoga i indirektnoga humanizma. Na taj način pokazujem jedinstveni kognitivni doprinos književnosti postizanju, ispunjavanju i promicanju naših epistemoloških ciljeva i vrijednosti. Less
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URN:NBNurn:nbn:hr:188:452285
Study programmeTitle: Postgraduate doctoral study programme Philosophy and Contemporaneity
Study programme type: university
Study level: postgraduate
Academic / professional title: doktor/doktorica znanosti, područje humanističkih znanosti, polje filozofija (doktor/doktorica znanosti, područje humanističkih znanosti, polje filozofija)
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