Amie L. Thomasson

Fiction and Metaphysics

Herausgeber: Dancy, Jonathan; Sosa, Ernest

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Amie Thomasson argues that fiction has far-reaching implications for central problems of metaphysics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 377g
• ISBN-13: 9780521640800
• ISBN-10: 0521640806
• Artikelnr.: 21383387

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: from fiction into metaphysics
Part I. The Artifactual Theory of Fiction: Foreword
1. If we postulated fictional objects, what would they be?
2. The nature and varieties of existential dependence
3. Fictional characters as abstract artifacts
4. Reference to fictional characters
5. Identity conditions for fictional characters
Part II. Ontological Decisions: Foreword
6. Fiction and experience
7. Fiction and language
8. Ontology and categorization
9. The perils of false parsimony
10. An ontology for a varied world
Notes
Bibliography.