Authorial Intention, Readers' Creation, and Reference Shift

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ID4352246
AuthorsJeonggyu Lee (0000-0001-7544-4448, Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume72
Issue2
Pages381-401
Publication date2022-03-31
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Philosophical Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0031-8094 • E-ISSN: 1467-9213
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/pq/pqab041
OpenAlexW3179191004
LanguageEN
Citations received8
References cited37

This paper deals with the identity problems of fictional objects, focusing on Anthony Everett's and Stuart Brock's leading criticisms against fictional creationism, the view that fictional objects are abstract objects created by our acts involving literary practices. My primary aim is to argue that creationism based on referentialism has enough resources to individuate fictional objects and hence can address the alleged identity problems: every alleged problematic case regarding the identity of fictional objects is well explained in terms of the notions of authorial intention, gappy proposition, inadvertent creation, and reference shift

Aesthetics · Creationism · Epistemology · Identity (music) · Proposition · Sociology · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics · Philosophy · Philosophy and Theoretical Science · Theology and Philosophy of Evil

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