20.500.12556/DKUM-68201 Thought Experiments, Fiction, and Literary Genres Miselni eksperimenti, fikcija in literarne zvrsti The thesis explores the relationship between thought experiments and fiction. It argues that thought experiments should be looked at as a sub-category of fiction, as this would enable fiction to be regarded as a source of knowledge and simultaneously preserve the special status of thought experimenting in philosophy. Furthermore, the thesis explores how the notion of thought experiments as a sub-category of fiction can illuminate and resolve certain issues in the classification of the literary genre utopia. Namely, it focuses on how to differentiate between eutopias, anti-utopias, and dystopias. By splitting the category of thought experiments into constructive and destructive thought experiments, it shows that eutopias can be perceived as being built upon constructive thought experiments, and anti-utopias and dystopias as being built upon destructive thought experiments, which suggests that dystopia is a sub-category of anti-utopia. Moreover, the developed theory is tested by showing how Le Guin’s The Dispossessed, Huxley’s Brave New World, and Atwood’s Maddaddam series, examples of anti-utopias and dystopias, are built upon destructive thought experiments, which substantiates our claim extensively. Magistrska naloga raziskuje povezavo med miselnimi eksperimenti in fikcijo. Zagovarja teorijo, da bi na miselne eksperimente morali gledati kot na podkategorije fikcije, saj bi to omogočilo, da bi bila fikcija razumljena kot vir znanja, hkrati pa tudi, da bi miselni eksperimenti ohranili poseben status znotraj filozofije. Naloga prav tako raziskuje, kako lahko razumevanje miselnih eksperimentov kot podkategorije fikcije osvetli in razreši določene probleme pri klasifikaciji literarnega žanra utopija. Pri tem se osredotoča na razločevanje med eutopijami, antiutopijami in distopijami. Z delitvijo kategorije miselnih eksperimentov na konstruktivne in destruktivne miselne eksperimente naloga pokaže, da lahko na eutopijo gledamo kot na fikcijo, zgrajeno na konstruktivnih miselnih eksperimentih, na antiutopijo in distopijo pa kot na fikcijo, zgrajeno na destruktivnih miselnih eksperimentih, kar kaže na to, da je distopija podkategorija antiutopije. Teorijo prav tako preverimo z deli The Dispossessed (Le Guin), Brave New World (Huxley) in trilogijo Maddaddam (Atwood), ki so primeri antiutopij in distopij, zgrajenih na destruktivnih miselnih eksperimentih, kar podkrepi razvito idejo. literary cognitivism thought experiments fiction utopia eutopia dystopia anti-utopia literarni kognitivizem miselni eksperimenti fikcija utopija eutopija distopija antiutopija true true false [T. Todorović] Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Magistrsko delo/naloga 2017-09-12 17:44:15 2017-10-19 10:52:20 2022-08-01 15:00:18 2019-07-11 16:45:28 2017 0 Maribor 0 0000-00-00 NiDoloceno NiDoloceno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 82.09:1(043.2) 23403016 URN:SI:UM:DK:5IFAZAP3 MAG_Todorovic_Tadej_2017.pdf MAG_Todorovic_Tadej_2017.pdf 1 0EC2A4BEFA52DE1BF2108E286EFCE05B 59c5846eb76792b918ee2c76c3043a043953b302d6258f1f12a0b82367ca201f 59b93108-7c0f-11eb-bb7a-00155d0001ca 20.500.12556/dkum/0d20cac2-843c-4652-ba17-40d721a32c4e https://dk.um.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=118839 Filozofska fakulteta 0 0 0