Middle-earth wasn't built in a day: How do we explain the costs of creating a world?

, &
Behavioral and Brain Sciences 45:e286 (2022)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

Dubourg and Baumard explain why fictional worlds are attractive to consumers. A complete account of fictional worlds, however, should also explain why some people create them. Creation is a costly and time-consuming process that does not resemble exploration but does resemble the culturally universal phenomenon of knowledge specialization.

Categories

Keywords

Reprint years

DOI

10.1017/s0140525x21002296

Links

PhilArchive



    Upload a copy of this work     Papers currently archived: 91,475

External links

Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

My notes

Similar books and articles

The International Relations of Middle-Earth: Learning From the Lord of the Rings.Abigail E. Ruane - 2012 - Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. Edited by Patrick James.
Geoscience education using virtual worlds: the Unicam Earth Island project.Annalisa Boniello - 2017 - Research Trends in Humanities Education & Philosophy 4:75-79.
Introduction to Charles Mills's “The Wretched of Middle‐Earth: An Orkish Manifesto”.Chike Jeffers & David Miguel Gray - 2022 - Southern Journal of Philosophy 60 (S1):102-104.
The Ideal of Kingship in the Writings of Charles Williams, C.S. Lewis, and J.R.R. Tolkien: Divine Kingship is reflected in Middle‐Earth. By Christopher Scarf . Pp. 200, Cambridge, James Clarke, 2013, £25.00, $50.00, €40.10. A Hobbit Journey: Discovering the Enchantment of J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle‐Earth. By Matthew Dickerson . Pp. xxii, 260, Grand Rapids MI, Brazos Press, 2012, £10.45, $16.99, €13.59. [REVIEW]P. H. Brazier - 2015 - Heythrop Journal 56 (2):351-352.
Nothing Else Matters.Vincent Blok - 2019 - Research in Phenomenology 49 (1):65-87.
A Cautionary Tale. [REVIEW]Stratford Caldecott - 2002 - The Chesterton Review 28 (1-2):97-103.
Ecophilosophy of J.R.R. Tolkien: Rural, Urban, and Wilderness Roads to Conscientious Living and Environmental Guardianship.William Graham Korver - 2019 - Dissertation, Oklahoma State University
The Real Middle Earth: Exploring the Magic and Mystery of the Middle Ages, J.R.R. Tolkein and "The Lord of the Rings". [REVIEW]Alfred Siewers - 2004 - The Medieval Review 12.
Thinking the Earth.Vincent Blok - 2016 - Environmental Ethics 38 (4):441-462.
Theory of the Earth Containing an Account of the Original of the Earth, and of All the General Changes Which It Hath Already Undergone, or is to Undergo, Till the Consummation of All Things. The Fourth Book, Concerning the New Heavens and the New Earth, and Concerning the Consummation of All Things. The Destiny of the Present Earth, and the Destiny of Mankind; the New Earth Made Glorious, and What Will Be the Employment in That New and Better World and When That Time Will Be.Thomas Burnet - 1872 - P. Mcgarr.
Middle Earth, Narnia, Hogwarts, and Animals: A Review of the Treatment of Nonhuman Animals and Other Sentient Beings in Christian-Based Fantasy Fiction. [REVIEW]Michael Morris - 2009 - Society and Animals 17 (4):343-356.
Built-Spaces for World-Making.Emiliano Trizio - 2009 - Environment, Space, Place 1 (1):27-52.
World as lover, world as self: 30th anniversary edition.Joanna Macy - 2021 - Berkeley: Parallax Press. Edited by Stephanie Kaza.
Переосмысливая представления о философском камне.Андрей Королев - 2008 - Proceedings of the Xxii World Congress of Philosophy 50:989-996.
World as lover, world as self: courage for global justice and planetary awakening.Joanna Macy - 2021 - Berkeley, California: Parallax Press. Edited by Stephanie Kaza.

Analytics

Added to PP
2023-01-09

Downloads
11 (#1,128,105)

6 months
9 (#299,476)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Citations of this work

Add more citations

References found in this work

Folkscience: coarse interpretations of a complex reality.Frank C. Keil - 2003 - Trends in Cognitive Sciences 7 (8):368-373.

Add more references