Truth, Fiction and Narrative Understanding

2020 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 201-219
Author(s):  
Stephen Chamberlain ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Literary Fiction ◽  
Theoretical Knowledge ◽  
Cognitive Value ◽  
Fictional Truth ◽  
Narrative Understanding

This paper defends the cognitive value of literary fiction by showing how Paul Ricoeur’s account of narrative understanding emphasizes the productive and creative elements of fictional discourse and defends its referential capacity insofar as fiction reshapes reality according to some universal aspect. Central to this analysis is Ricoeur’s retrieval of Aristotelian mimesis and mythos and their convergence in the notion of emplotment. This paper also supplements and specifies further Ricoeur’s account by retrieving an Aristotelian concept disregarded by Riceour, namely, synesis (understanding). Although Ricoeur connects narrative understanding to the intelligibility of praxis and in turn phronêsis, as opposed to theoretical knowledge (theōria or epistēmē), he overlooks Aristotle’s discussion of synesis. This paper then clarifies how the fictional truth of narrative understanding remains related to, and yet distinct from, both theoretical discourse (science) and praxis (politics).

The Snow Angel and Other Imprints

2010 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-124
Author(s):  
Mona Livholts
Keyword(s):  
Research Process ◽  
Literary Fiction ◽  
Charlotte Perkins Gilman ◽  
Helene Cixous ◽  
Memory Work ◽  
The Social ◽  
Writing Research ◽  
Women's Lives ◽  
Symbolic Formation ◽  
Writing Practice

This article, written in the form of an untimely academic novella is a text, which explores academic authoring as thinking and writing practice in a place called Sweden. The aim is on inquiries of geographical space, place, and academia, and the interrelation between the social and symbolic formation of class, gender and whiteness. The novella uses different writing strategies and visual representations such as documentary writing and photographing from the research process, letters to a friend, and memories from childhood, based on three generations of women's lives. The methodology can be described as a critical reflexive writing strategy inspired by poststructuralist and postcolonial feminist theory and literary fiction, and additionally by methodological approaches in the humanities and social sciences, such as theorizing of letters, memory work, and narrative, and autobiographical approaches. In particular, it draws on work by the theorist critic and writer of fiction, Hélène Cixous, and the feminist author and theorist Charlotte Perkins Gilman, drawing on interpretation of Cixous' essay “Enter the Theatre” and Gilman's story “The Yellow Wallpaper.” Characteristics of the untimely academic novella elaborate with possible forms of the symbolic, visual, and performative photographic and sensory in writing research; furthermore, time, social change, and unfinal endings play a pervasive role. It may be read as a story that situates and theorizes embodyment, landscape, and power through the interweaving of forest rural farming spaces and academic office spaces by tracing autobiographical imprints of an untimely feminist author. “The Snow Angel and Other Imprints” is the second article in a trilogy of untimely academic novellas. The first, with the title “The Professor's Chair,” was published in Swedish in 2007 (in the anthology “Genus och det akademiska skrivandets former,” (Eds.) Bränström Öhman & Livholts), and forthcoming in English in the journal Life Writing 2010.

Training of the cardiology service nursing staff in the conditions of medical organization

2020 ◽  
pp. 21-25
Author(s):  
Svetlana Inozemtseva ◽  
Larisa Karaseva
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Staff ◽  
Direct Interaction ◽  
Theoretical Knowledge ◽  
Medical Organization ◽  
Main Work ◽  
Working Situation ◽  
Normal Work

Training in the workplace is characterized by direct interaction with normal work in the usual working situation for specialists, which has a number of advantages: it does not require large financial expenses, separation from the main work and departure from the limits of the settlement, allows to quickly implement the obtained theoretical knowledge in the practical activities of nursing specialists.

PRÁTICA LABORATORIAL DE PESQUISA SEDIMENTOLÓGICA

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 218-226
Author(s):  
Alyne Karollayne Melquiades Souza Silva ◽  
Joanderson Fernandes Simões ◽  
Júlio César Reis Silva ◽  
Amanda Cristina Dias Lima ◽  
Marcelo Santos Chaves ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Experimental Research ◽  
Laboratory Experiments ◽  
Rio Grande ◽  
Physical Geography ◽  
Laboratory Work ◽  
Theoretical Knowledge ◽  
Laboratory Experience

Esta pesquisa teve como finalidade relatar experiências em laboratório, especificamente o Laboratório de Geografia Física - Pesquisa (LabGeoFis-Pesquisa), localizado no Departamento de Geografia, no Centro de Ciências Humanas, Letras e Artes, da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte. Procuramos relatar, de forma concisa, as principais técnicas aplicadas ao trabalho laboratorial, enfatizado a temática da Geografia Física. Para tecer essas considerações, nos fundamentamos em autores como Venturi (2005) e Rudio (1990), os quais tratam sobre teorias e procedimentos relacionados às práticas de laboratório e a pesquisa descritiva e experimental, respectivamente. Para realizar esta pesquisa, levamos em consideração os trabalhos e as experiências desenvolvidas pelos alunos de bacharelado e licenciatura do primeiro período do curso de Geografia. Os resultados aqui obtidos, nos mostraram a importância dos conhecimentos teóricos aliados com a prática de laboratório.Palavras chaves: Laboratório; Experiência; Técnicas. ABSTRACT This research had the purpose of reporting laboratory experiments, specifically the Laboratory of Physical Geography - Research (LabGeoFis-Search), located in the Department of Geography, at the Humanities, Letters and Arts Center of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte. We try to report, in a concise way, the main techniques applied to laboratory work, emphasizing the theme of Physical Geography. In order to make these considerations, we base ourselves on authors such as Venturi (2005) and Rudio (1990), who deal with theories and procedures related to laboratory practices and descriptive and experimental research, respectively. To carry out this research, we take into account the work and experiences developed by the baccalaureate and undergraduate students of the first period of the Geography course. The results obtained here showed us the importance of theoretical knowledge allied with laboratory practice.Keywords: Laboratory; Experience; Technique. RESUMENEl propósito de esta investigación fue reportar experimentos de laboratorio, específicamente el Laboratorio de Investigación de Geografía Física (LabGeoFis-Pesquisa), ubicado en el Departamento de Geografía, en el Centro de Humanidades, Letras y Artes, Universidad Federal de Río Grande del Norte.

A ABORDAGEM SOBRE O TERRITÓRIO EM AUTORES DA GEOGRAFIA BRASILEIRA: MUTAÇÕES DE UM CONCEITO

GEOgraphia ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (42) ◽  
pp. 38
Author(s):  
Lucas Labigalini Fuini
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Knowledge ◽  
History Of Thought ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
History Of ◽  
Territorial Approach ◽  
Selection Of

Resumo: O objetivo deste artigo é reconhecer, através de uma seleção de autores e obras, as características principais da abordagem territorial na Geografia brasileira desenvolvida desde fins dos anos 1970, quando se reconhece um verdadeiro interesse na sistematização e no conhecimento teórico sobre o conceito em nossa ciência. No perpassar por autores, objetiva-se identificar a crescente multidimensionalidade e transescalaridade que o conceito adquire nos seus conteúdos e aplicações e a mudança de sentido explicativo que assume no avançar dos anos 2000.Palavras-chave: Território. Territorialidade. História do pensamento. Político. Geografia brasileira. THE APPROACH TO THE TERRITORY IN AUTHORS OF THE BRAZILIAN GEOGRAPHY: MUTATIONS OF A CONCEPTAbstract: The purpose of this article is to recognize, through a selection of authors and works, the main features of the territorial approach in the Brazilian Geography developed since the late 1970s, when it recognizes a real interest in the systematization and theoretical knowledge about the concept in our science. In pervade by authors, aims to identify the increasing multidimensionality and transescalarity that the concept gets in their content and applications and the change in explanatory sense that assumes in advance the years 2000.Keywords: Territory. Territoriality. History of thought. Political. Brazilian geography. EL ENFOQUE SOBRE EL TERRITORIO EN AUTORES DE GEOGRAFÍA BRASILEÑA: MUTACIONES DE UN CONCEPTOResumen: El objetivo de este artículo es reconocer, a través de una selección de autores y obras, las características principales del abordaje territorial en la Geografía brasileña desarrollada desde fines de los años 1970, cuando se reconoce un verdadero interés en la sistematización y en el conocimiento teórico sobre el concepto en nuestra ciencia . En el traspaso por autores, se objetiva identificar la creciente multidimensionalidad y transescalaridad que el concepto adquiere en sus contenidos y aplicaciones y el cambio de sentido explicativo que asume a lo largo de los años 2000.Palabras-clave: Territorio. Territorialidad. Historia del pensamiento. Político. Geografía brasileña.

Intentionalist Strategies of Interpretation

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathleen Stock
Keyword(s):  
David Lewis ◽  
Authorial Intention ◽  
Gregory Currie ◽  
Ordinary Case ◽  
Unreliable Narration ◽  
Fictional Truth

This chapter addresses the complaint that extreme intentionalism standardly forces the reader who engages in interpretation to posit private, or hidden, authorial intentions, for which she has little or no evidence. It is first argued that there are no automatic strategies of interpretation of fictional content: at every stage, whether or not a given interpretative strategy is to be appropriately applied depends on the presence of relevant authorial intention as a sanction. (This section includes a discussion, and rejection, of the views of David Lewis and Gregory Currie about fictional truth; a discussion of the relevance of genre to fictional content; and a consideration of the issue of unreliable narration for an intentionalist view.) The foregoing material on strategies of interpretation is then used to show that it is false to think of the extreme intentionalist as being committed to ‘hidden’ or ‘secret’ meanings in the ordinary case.

Only Imagine

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathleen Stock
Keyword(s):  
David Lewis ◽  
Strong Argument ◽  
Fictional Truth

This book begins with a detailed description and defence of a controversial theory of fictional content (or ‘fictional truth’) known as ‘extreme intentionalism’. On this view, roughly, the fictional content of a particular text is equivalent to exactly what the author of the text intended the reader to imagine. The book situates this theory in relation to its competitors including hypothetical intentionalism, value-maximizing theory, and the influential anti-intentionalism view of David Lewis—and puts forward a strong argument for its superiority, despite its many detractors. In the second half of the book, some consequences of extreme intentionalism are explored as they affect questions such as: the relation of fiction to testimony and belief; whether there are any limits to what we can imagine, and what explains those limits; what is the nature of fiction; to what extent imagination resembles belief; and to what extent the imagination can contribute to the provision of counterfactual and modal knowledge.

Two Kinds of Imaginative Vividness

2021 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-47
Author(s):  
Julia Langkau
Keyword(s):  
Explanatory Power ◽  
The Other ◽  
Literary Fiction ◽  
Emotional Engagement ◽  
Mental Images ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One ◽  
Epistemic Role

AbstractThis paper argues that we should distinguish two different kinds of imaginative vividness: vividness of mental images and vividness of imaginative experiences. Philosophy has focussed on mental images, but distinguishing more complex vivid imaginative experiences from vivid mental images can help us understand our intuitions concerning the notion as well as the explanatory power of vividness. In particular, it can help us understand the epistemic role imagination can play on the one hand and our emotional engagement with literary fiction on the other hand.

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