Literature as thought / Robert Stecker -- Cognitive dimensions of achieving (and failing) in literature / Wolfgang Huemer -- The cognitive value of fictional names / Daniel Hartenstein -- Thought theory and literary cognition / Peter Lamarque -- On making and understanding imaginative experiences in our engagement with fictional narratives / Tilmann Köppe -- Why no one's afraid of Stanley Fish -- on panfictionalism and knowledge / Eva-Maria Konrad -- Knowledge from fiction / Maria E. Reicher -- On the very idea of a textual meaning / Olier Scholz -- Locating literary meaning : a formal framework for a philological principle of charity / Thomas Petraschka -- How literature communicates : a cognitive pragmatic perspective / Barbara MacMahon -- Literature, pluralism, and the critique of evaluative concepts / Eileen John -- On referring to Ferraris -- the act of reference and predication in fictional discourse / Christiana Werner -- Nine reductionisms in hermeneutics as nine ways of unilaterally focusing on single moments in the process of understanding / Vittorio Hösle