Part IV: Cognitive Approaches to Narrative across Literature and Science

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements
3. Contents VII
4. Introduction: Narrative and Cognition in Literature and Science 1
5. Part I: Cognitive Approaches to Literary Narratives of Science
6. “Let’s hear you apply Heisenberg to ethics” 41
7. The Hard Problem and the End of the World 65
8. Emotion and Matter in Corps corrosifs by Lorand Gaspar 85
9. On Being Moved 107
10. Part II: Literary Approaches to Narrative Cognition in Science
11. The Epistemic Power of Imagination through Interformation between Astrophysics and Literature: Carl Sagan’s Novel Contact and Kip Thorne’s Model of Traversable Wormholes 129
12. “Long ago, deep in space” 179
13. Narrative Minds in the Construction and Use of Theories of Forces of Nature – A Model of Experience at Different Scales 217
14. Part III: Scientific Approaches to Narrative Cognition in Science
15. A Fortress Filled with Highways 247
16. What Little Red Riding Hood Can Teach Us about Reading Science 269
17. The Contextual, Enabling, and Constitutive Role of Physical Experience in Narratives 299
18. Part IV: Cognitive Approaches to Narrative across Literature and Science
19. Embodied Sublime 329
20. Energy Models of Causation in Mind, Culture and Science 361
21. Reading Narratives 401
22. The Comforts of Constancy in Literature and Science 433
23. Contributors
24. Index 451