After taking Philosophy for his first degree at University College London, Derek Matravers went on to complete his doctorate at Cambridge. He was a Post-Doctoral Lecturer at Cambridge, before moving to the Open University in 1994 where he is now Professor. He continues his links with Cambridge, where he is a Senior Member of Darwin College. He has published extensively on aesthetics, and to a lesser extent on ethics, political philosophy, and the philosophy of mind.

An excellent, ambitious book, there is no doubt that Fiction and Narrative will make many of us think a little harder about these two pesky categories.

• 1: Introduction 2: Walton on Fiction 3: Fiction and the Imagination 4: The Real Distinction 5: Understanding Narratives 6: Engaging with Narratives 7: Narrative and Belief 8: The (so-called) Paradox of Fiction 9: Narrators, Impossible Fictions, and the 'Fictionality Puzzle' 10: Coda: Film

After taking Philosophy for his first degree at University College London, Derek Matravers went on to complete his doctorate at Cambridge. He was a Post-Doctoral Lecturer at Cambridge, before moving to the Open University in 1994 where he is now Professor. He continues his links with Cambridge, where he is a Senior Member of Darwin College. He has published extensively on aesthetics, and to a lesser extent on ethics, political philosophy, and the philosophy of mind.

An excellent, ambitious book, there is no doubt that Fiction and Narrative will make many of us think a little harder about these two pesky categories.

• 1: Introduction 2: Walton on Fiction 3: Fiction and the Imagination 4: The Real Distinction 5: Understanding Narratives 6: Engaging with Narratives 7: Narrative and Belief 8: The (so-called) Paradox of Fiction 9: Narrators, Impossible Fictions, and the 'Fictionality Puzzle' 10: Coda: Film

After taking Philosophy for his first degree at University College London, Derek Matravers went on to complete his doctorate at Cambridge. He was a Post-Doctoral Lecturer at Cambridge, before moving to the Open University in 1994 where he is now Professor. He continues his links with Cambridge, where he is a Senior Member of Darwin College. He has published extensively on aesthetics, and to a lesser extent on ethics, political philosophy, and the philosophy of mind.

An excellent, ambitious book, there is no doubt that Fiction and Narrative will make many of us think a little harder about these two pesky categories.

• 1: Introduction 2: Walton on Fiction 3: Fiction and the Imagination 4: The Real Distinction 5: Understanding Narratives 6: Engaging with Narratives 7: Narrative and Belief 8: The (so-called) Paradox of Fiction 9: Narrators, Impossible Fictions, and the 'Fictionality Puzzle' 10: Coda: Film