Screen LibraryTruth in fiction /
The essays collected in this volume are all concerned with the connection between fiction and truth. This question is of utmost importance to metaphysics, philosophy of language, philosophical logic and epistemology, raising in each of these areas and at their intersections a large number of issues...
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De Gruyter,
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| Publisher Address: | Berlin/Boston : |
| Publication Dates: |
[2010] ©2010 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Philosophische analyse / philosophical analysis;
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| Summary: |
The essays collected in this volume are all concerned with the connection between fiction and truth. This question is of utmost importance to metaphysics, philosophy of language, philosophical logic and epistemology, raising in each of these areas and at their intersections a large number of issues related to creation, existence, reference, identity, modality, belief, assertion, imagination, pretense, etc. All these topics and many more are addressed in this collection, which brings together original essays written from various points of view by philosophers of diverse trends. These essays constitute major contributions to the current debates that the connection between truth and fiction continually enlivens, and give a sense of the directions in which research on this question is heading. |
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1 online resource (308 pages) : illustrations. Also available in print edition. |
| ISBN: | 9783110326796 |
| Index Number: | BD171 |
| CLC: | I14 |
| Contents: |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Fictional Characters and Indeterminate Identity / Two-Dimensionalism and Fictional Names / Classical Possibilism and Fictional Objects / How Creationism Supports Kripke s Vichianism on Fiction / Creating Non-Existents / Sweet Nothings: The Semantics, Pragmatics, and Ontology of Fiction / Fiction and Acceptance-Relative Truth, Belief and Assertion / Fictional Realism and Its Discontents / The Fiction of Creationism / Virtual Worlds and Interactive Fictions / Fiction, Indispensability and Truths / References -- Notes on Contributors -- Index -- Backmatter. |