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Fiction, emotion and imagination

Fiction, emotion and imagination

Update: 2010-11-01

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Dr Cain Todd looks at the philosophical problem of why we have emotional responses to fictional artworks and whether there may be a distinctive class of 'aesthetic emotions'. Recorded Friday 29th October 2010.

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Fiction, emotion and imagination

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