American philosopher who has worked on the relationship between fiction and emotion, the paradox of tragedy, and moral psychology.
Contributed to the debate about how audiences can have genuine emotional responses to fictional characters they know do not exist — the paradox of fiction. Argued for cognitivist accounts of emotional response to tragedy.
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