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 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 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 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