Fictionalism : : the art of teaching truth disguised as lies /

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

"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...

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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).
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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.

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