Fictionalism : : the art of teaching truth disguised as lies / / Johan Dahlbeck.

• VerfasserIn: Dahlbeck, Johan,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden : : BRILL,, 2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Brill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (128 pages).

"Fictionalism confronts the dual epistemological nature of education. In this book, Johan Dahlbeck argues that all education, at bottom, concerns a striving for truth initiated through fictions. This foundational aporia is then interrogated and made sense of via Hans Vaihinger's philosophy of 'as if' and Spinoza's peculiar form of exemplarism. Using a variety of fictional examples, Dahlbeck investigates the different dimensions of educational fictionalism, from teacher exemplarism to the basic educational fictions necessary for getting started in education in the first place. Fictionalism will be a valuable resource for anyone interested in the philosophical foundations of education"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations and Note on Editions Used -- Abstract -- SECTION 1: BEGINNINGS -- Introduction: A Truth Concealed beneath a Beautiful Lie -- 1 Emotional Manipulation and Affective Influence: A Philosophical Account -- 1.1 The Problem of Reason -- 1.2 Becoming Interested in Something -- 1.3 Truth and Fiction -- 1.4 Emotional Manipulation as a Pedagogical Opening -- 1.5 Ingenium and Affective Influence -- 2 Hans Vaihinger's 'As If' and the Promotion of Educational Fictions -- 2.1 Hans Vaihinger's Fictionalism -- 2.2 Fictions, Hypotheses, and Dogmas -- 2.3 Educational Fictions -- 2.4 Distinguishing Good Educational Fictions from Bad Ones -- 2.5 Overcoming the Pedagogical Obstacle of Different People Responding Differently to Educational Fictions -- 3 Taking a Cue from Spinoza's Exemplars -- 3.1 Why Look to Exemplars? -- 3.2 Spinoza's Exemplarism -- 3.3 Prophets and Philosophers -- 3.4 Fallibility and Attunement -- 3.5 Exemplars Acting 'As If' -- Conclusion: The End of the Beginning -- SECTION 2: EXAMPLES -- Introduction: Three Examples, Three Lessons (in Educational Fictionalism) -- 4 Learning from Satan's Mistake: Epistemological Restrictions and Imaginative Openings -- 4.1 Teachings of a Mysterious Stranger -- 4.2 Epistemological Restrictions: Being a Knower and Being a Teacher -- 4.3 Imaginative Openings: Fictions That Hinder and Fictions That Alleviate Action -- 4.4 Satan's Flawed Fictionalism -- 5 Recollecting Mr. Möller's Transformative Gesture: Looking Back to Move Ahead -- 5.1 Mr. Möller's Gesture -- 5.2 Memory and Transformation -- 5.3 Stealing a Gift from a Cunning Teacher -- 5.4 Recollecting Real-Life Exemplarism -- 6 Popular Images of Teachers: Control Freaks or Lovers of the Unknown? -- 6.1 Fictions Allowing for New Fictions -- 6.2 Of Control Freaks and Lovers of the Unknown.

6.3 Is There a Fiction Hidden Here? -- Conclusion: These Examples Are Nothing but Fictions -- SECTION 3: ENDINGS -- Introduction: The Beginning of the End -- 7 Educational Fictionalism and the Teaching of Truth Disguised as Lies -- 7.1 Fictionalism as an Educational Concept -- 7.2 Teachers as Fictionalist Ambassadors of the Good Life -- 7.3 The Truth Is Still Out There -- 7.4 Fictions That Trouble and Fictions That Comfort Us -- Conclusion: Acting 'As If' We Knew Where We Were Going -- Bibliography.