Dissertation

Project Description: Emotional Data: The Moral Expressions of Sentiment in Narrative.

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According to an existing view regarding the relationship between art and moral knowledge, for a work of art to engage sufficiently with moral issues requires similarly complex, or refined literary engagement or intention for such depictions [Gilmore (2020); 102–133]. Here, I hope to motivate a different way to think of narratives which highlight their extra-aesthetic properties regardless of the artistic intent behind the work. I will propose a sentimentalist account of moral testimony based in narrative in which the necessary relationship between moral knowledge and narrative is grounding.