%0 Journal Article
%T Genuine and rational tears
%A Barbero Carola
%J Theoria, Beograd
%D 2010
%I Serbian Philosophical Society, Belgrade
%R 10.2298/theo1002005b
%X In this paper I examine the emotions we feel while reading a work of fiction. Some philosophers think that our emotional engagement with fiction gives rise to a paradox and involves either irrationality or participation in a game of make believe. In this paper I argue that an Object Theory in a Meinongian style, by supporting a realistic perspective on fictional emotions, is able to dissolve the paradox of fiction.
%K emotion
%K fiction
%K paradox
%K rationality
%K genuine
%U http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0351-2274/2010/0351-22741002005B.pdf