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Emotional Imagining and Our Responses to Fiction

Dorsch, Fabian

In: Enrahonar, 2011, vol. 46, p. 153-176

The aim of this article is to present the disagreement between Moran and Walton on the nature of our affective responses to fiction and to defend a view on the issue which is opposed to Moran’s account and improves on Walton’s. Moran takes imagination-based affective responses to be instances of genuine emotion and treats them as episodes with an emotional attitude towards their contents....