Fictional Objects
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9466944 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lucie Walters (0000-0003-3899-3522, University of Southampton, corresponding author), Lee Walters |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 57 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 103-106 |
| Publication date | 2017-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The British Journal of Aesthetics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-0904 • E-ISSN: 1468-2842 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/aesthj/ayw004 |
| OpenAlex | W4235168486 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
Given the recent release of Kripke’s Reference and Existence,1 the earlier manuscript of which set the stage for a lot of the recent debate, this volume of essays on fictional objects is timely and contains essays by a number of those who have pushed the debate on since Kripke. After a very helpful introduction by Brock and Everett, there are eleven chapters that are not organized by theme. Nevertheless there are a number of themes that re-occur during the volume including fictional properties, identity of fictional objects, fictionalism, and intentional identity. For reasons of space, in what follows, I will discuss eight of the chapters, omitting those by Braun, Howell, and Salmon which largely build on their previous contributions. In her chapter, Amie Thomasson raises a problem for fictionalists about fictional characters. Thomasson thinks that realism about fictional characters follows from the following principle, given the relevant background facts: if an author writes a story using a name N to pretend to refer to and describe someone, then the author creates a fictional character. The fictionalist will agree that it does follow from this that we can say that the author created a fictional character, but they will deny that we should take this conclusion seriously. As Thomasson notes, the fictionalist effectively treats her principle as a principle generating fictional truths
Aesthetics · Art · Character (mathematics · Epistemology · Fictional universe · Identity (music · Linguistics · Literature · Narrative · Possible world · Realism · Space (punctuation) · Theme (computing · Computer Science · Mathematics · Philosophy · Philosophy and Theoretical Science · Pragmatism in Philosophy and Education
| Citations per year | 0.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |