Fictional objects

Fictional objects

by Brock, Stuart Everett, Anthony

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Eleven original essays discuss a range of puzzling philosophical questions about fictional characters, and more generally about fictional objects. For example, they ask questions like the following: Do they really exist? What would fictional objects be like if they existed? Do they exist eternally? Are they created? Who by? When and how? Can they be destroyed? If so, how? Are they abstract or concrete? Are they actual? Are they complete objects? Are they possible objects? How many fictional obj…

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  • Full title :Fictional objects. / Stuart Brock; Anthony Everett.

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Eleven original essays discuss a range of puzzling philosophical questions about fictional characters, and more generally about fictional objects. For example, they ask questions like the following: Do they really exist? What would fictional objects be like if they existed? Do they exist eternally? Are they created? Who by? When and how? Can they be destroyed? If so, how? Are they abstract or concrete? Are they actual? Are they complete objects? Are they possible objects? How many fictional objects are there? What are their identity conditions? What kinds of attitudes can we have towards them? This volume will be a landmark in the philosophical debate about fictional objects, and will influence higher-level debates within metaphysics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language.

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  • Publication Date:2015.

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  • Description:288 pages

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780198735595, 0198735596
  • oclc:ocn894201674
  • LC Classification:B790-5739
  • Dewey Decimal:190

Table of Contents

1.A Reconsidered Defence of Haecceitism Regarding Fictional Individuals / William G. Lycan -- 2.Objects of Fiction and Objects of Thought / Robert Howell -- 3.Wondering about Witches / David Braun -- 4.The Philosopher's Stone and Other Mythical Objects / Nathan Salmon -- 5.A Suitable Metaphysics for Fictional Entities: Why One Has to Run Syncretistically / Alberto Voltolini -- 6.Creationism and the Problem of Indiscernible Fictional Objects / Frederick Kroon -- 7.Brutal Identity / Cathleen Muller -- 8.The Importance of Fictional Properties / Sarah Sawyer -- 9.Fictionalism, Fictional Characters, and Fictionalist Inference / Stuart Brock -- 10.Fictional Discourse and Fictionalisms / Amie L. Thomasson -- 11.Ideas for Stories / Timothy Schroeder.

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Subjects

Criticism, interpretation, etc Fiction Fiction -- History and criticism Fictional characters Fictitious characters fiktion Gegenstand Literature -- Philosophy Metaphysik Personnages fictifs Philosophie dans la littérature Philosophy in literature Roman -- Histoire et critique

Writers

Brock, Stuart Everett, Anthony

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