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Szabó Gendler, T. (2010). Intuition, imagination, & philosophical methodology. Oxford: Oxford University Press.   
Last edited by: Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard 21/10/2023, 06:42
Imaginative resistance: "the puzzle of explaining our comparative difficulty in imagining fictional worlds that we take to be morally deviant."
"whether or not we are inclined to respond with imaginative resistance [depends on] why we think we're being asked to imagine [certain scenarios]."
With regard to realistic fiction, non-distorting fiction, things can be learned and exported from the fictional world to the actual world, adding them to a stock of knowledge about the world.

"cases that evoke genuine imaginative resistance will be cases where the reader feels that she is being asked to export a way of looking at the actual world which she does not wish to add to her conceptual repertoire." (p.199)
"we countenance all sorts of combination as being true in fiction, and credit ourselves with having imagined them, even though we are in no position to make full sense of what that combination would amount to. It is crucial to realize that if one refuses to grant this, one has basically opted out of the fiction game altogether."
In some cases we recognize that deviance from fact-established concept is not intended for export from the storyworld -- export is not the intent of the author. In others, "because we recognize that there are instances of actual moral disagreement" (p.200), it is unclear to us if the author intended them to be exported or not. Hence imaginative resistance.
Discussing pop-outs in fiction. Where instead of the reader assuming the author is presenting a proposition about the fictional world, the reader assumes the proposition is about the real world. "[T]o imagine something in the context of the story -- and to believe some corresponding claim about the actual world" (p.216).

Pop-outs are often moral propositions because they are related to the problem of imaginative resistance but can be non-moral as well. Pop-outs are a case of "authoritative breakdown" (p.217) -- we take the claim about the real world to be fake, we resist believing it. therefore resist the invitation to imagine it in the fictional world.
The effects of pop-outs can be mitigated through 'partial mappings' whereby the fictional proposition bears just enough similarity to real world counterparts to be accepted as is within the fictional world.
Re imaginative resistance: "The Impossibility Hypothesis traces the failure to a problem with the fictional world. It says essentially: we are unable to follow the author's lead because the world she has tried to make fictional is impossible. My alternative proposal traces it to a problem with our relations to the actual world. It says essentially: we are unwilling to follow the author's lead because in trying to make that world fictional, she is providing us with a way of looking at this world that we prefer to not to embrace."
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