John Gibson is Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Temple University, USA. He is co-editor (with Wolfgang Huemer) of The Literary Wittgenstein (Routledge, 2004). Wolfgang Huemer is assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Erfurt, Germany. He is author of The Constitution of Consciousness. A Study on Analytic Phenomenology (Routledge, 2004).Luca Pocci received his PhD in Comparative Literature and currently teaches in Siena. The scope of his research interests range from literary theory (with a particular focus on thematic criticism) to interdisciplinary fields, such as the interplay between the discourses of fiction and historiography.

• Introduction Part 1: Narrative as a Form of Knowing 1. Narration and Knowledge 2. The Ends of Narrative 3. Problems of Holocaust Fiction 4. The Truth about Stories is that that's All We Are 5. Narrative and the Fulfillment of Knowledge Part 2: Fiction & Cognition 6. Learning from Literature CognitiveFunctions of Fiction 7. Poetry and Cognition 8. Fiction, Simulation, and Knowledge 9. Nonsense, Logic, and Wishing 10. Knowledge Across Fictional Worlds and Real Worlds 11. Drawing Inferences from Literature Part 3: The Epistemology of Literary Appreciation 12. Myths and Legends 13. Interpretation, Emergence, and Insight 14. En Abyme:Internal Models and Cognitive Mapping 15. The Return of the Represses: Caring about Fiction and its Themes

"...this volume makes an important contribution by focusing on several areas in which literary fiction and narrative remain of vital contemporary philosophical interest." -- Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews