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Is it all because of a story?
Author(s) -
Jones Todd
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
the philosophical forum
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.134
H-Index - 15
eISSN - 1467-9191
pISSN - 0031-806X
DOI - 10.1111/phil.12264
Subject(s) - popular media , history , sociology , media studies , epistemology , aesthetics , psychology , literature , art , philosophy
A very popular account of various behaviors among journalists and humanities scholars and is that such behaviors were caused by stories that people read or heard. In this paper, I argue that such explanations are seldom justified, and speculate about what makes story‐based accounts so popular when there is so little evidence for them.