![]() ![]() In Frank Jackson’s thought experiment, What Mary Knew, for instance, the discussion continued into a book There’s Something About Mary. ![]() These thought experiments can become central to the conversation between philosophers, and new versions can be used as part of the response. The research for my novel Love And Other Thought Experiments formed part of my PhD on the overlap between philosophy and literature in the short stories known as “thought experiments.” The thesis was a study of the history and development of the story-cycle and the composite novel which overlaps in the way that philosophers, particularly philosophers of mind, create a narrative for an idea or theory. ![]() Multiple narrator remains my storytelling technique of choice, as a reader and a writer. Books such as Middlemarch, Frankenstein, and Wuthering Heights fed my already over-exercised imagination to the point where reality and fantasy were occasionally indistinguishable. The multiple narrator is such a prominent feature of 19th-century fiction that it’s possible I internalized the device inadvertently. In my teens, I read only Victorian novels. ![]()
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