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Taking its cue from Ian C. Jarvie’s views on the philosophy of film and his approach to the ontology of films as Popperian “World Three” objects, this chapter elaborates on the latter by highlighting similar theses by Bernard Bolzano and Gottlob Frege in order to safeguard an alternative route toward the possibility of (some kinds of) film being vehicles of philosophy.
As Ian C. Jarvie argues: “As an abstract object the film seems to contain philosophy and we are able to think about it philosophically. Why do writers, directors, etc. put philosophy on to film? The answer is simple: they do not. Philosophy puts itself in their films.”
—(Jarvie1987a, p. 26)
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Kaldis, B. (2019). World Three and Cognitivism: Philosophy in Film. In: Sassower, R., Laor, N. (eds) The Impact of Critical Rationalism. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90826-7_24
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