Imaginative Resistance Revisited
Tamar Szabó Gendler · 2006
Abstract The puzzle of imaginative resistance is the puzzle of explaining our comparative difficulty in imagining fictional worlds that we take to be morally deviant. The author of this chapter, Szabó Gendler, refines her earlier (2000) account of the phenomenon. The chapter argues that cases that evoke resistance are those where seriously engaging with the proposed fictional perspective would alter the reader's apprehension of the actual world in unwanted ways. It contrasts the author's account with those of several other authors, including Hume, Walton, and Weatherson.