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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822583003321

Titolo

From fictionalism to realism / / edited by Carola Barbero, Maurizio Ferraris and Alberto Voltolini

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne, : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2013

ISBN

1-4438-4649-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (157 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BarberoCarola <1975->

FerrarisMaurizio <1956->

VoltoliniAlberto

Disciplina

111

Soggetti

Fictions, Theory of

Reality

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

TABLE OF CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT

Sommario/riassunto

In ontology, realism and anti-realism may be taken as opposite attitudes towards entities of different kinds, so that one may turn out to be a realist with respect to certain entities, and an anti-realist with respect to others. In this book, the editors focus on this controversy concerning social entities in general and fictional entities in particular, the latter often being considered nowadays as kinds of social entities. More specifically, fictionalists (those who maintain that we only ma...