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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823750803321

Titolo

Truth in fiction / / Franck Lihoreau (ed.)

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Frankfurt, : Ontos Verlag, 2011

ISBN

3-11-032679-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (315 p.)

Collana

Philosophische Analyse / Philosophical analysis ; ; Bd. 38

Altri autori (Persone)

LihoreauFranck

Disciplina

813.009

Soggetti

Truth

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Lihoreau, Franck -- Fictional Characters and Indeterminate Identity / Parsons, Terence -- Two-Dimensionalism and Fictional Names / Murday, Brendan -- Classical Possibilism and Fictional Objects / Rast, Erich -- How Creationism Supports Kripke's Vichianism on Fiction / Voltolini, Alberto -- Creating Non-Existents / Priest, Graham -- Sweet Nothings: The Semantics, Pragmatics, and Ontology of Fiction / Adams, Fred -- Fiction and Acceptance-Relative Truth, Belief and Assertion / Sainsbury, R.M. -- Fictional Realism and Its Discontents / Howell, Robert -- The Fiction of Creationism / Kroon, Frederick -- Virtual Worlds and Interactive Fictions / Tavinor, Grant -- Fiction, Indispensability and Truths / Rebuschi, Manuel / Renauld, Marion -- References -- Notes on Contributors -- Index -- Backmatter

Sommario/riassunto

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 con