What can we learn about the world from engaging with fictional time-series-stories involving time travellers, recurring and rewinding time, and foreknowledge of the future? Craig Bourne and Emily Caddick Bourne show how we can use the complexities of fictional time to get to the core of the relation between truth in fiction and possibility.
What can we learn about the world from engaging with fictional time-series-stories involving time travellers, recurring and rewinding time, and foreknowledge of the future? Craig Bourne and Emily Caddick Bourne show how we can use the complexities of fictional time to get to the core of the relation between truth in fiction and possibility.
Craig Bourne is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Hertfordshire. Craig studied Philosophy at Pembroke College, Cambridge, taking a BA (1995-1998), MPhil (1998-1999), and PhD (1999-2002). He was a Research Fellow at St Catharine's College, Cambridge (2002-2006), Lecturer in the Cambridge Philosophy Faculty (2004-2005), and College Lecturer in Philosophy at Pembroke and New Hall, Cambridge (2006-2007). He is author of A Future for Presentism (OUP, 2006) and is currently co-editing a collection (with Emily Caddick Bourne) on Shakespeare and philosophy. Emily Caddick Bourne is Academic Director and Teaching Officer in Philosophy at the University of Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education. Emily completed her BA (2004-2007), MPhil (2007-2008), and PhD (2008-2011) in Philosophy at Newnham College, Cambridge. Emily was, from 2011-2014, a Jacobsen Research Fellow at Birkbeck, University of London, based in the Institute of Philosophy. Emily is currently co-editing a collection (with Craig Bourne) on Shakespeare and philosophy.
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Introduction 1: Theories of Fiction Part I: Tense in Fiction 2: Theories of Time and Tense 3: Fictional Time--A-series or B-series? 4: The Fictional Future Part II: Temporal Structures and the Structures of Representations 5: Branching Fictional Time? 6: Pausing and Rewinding Fictional Time? 7: Recurring Fictional Time? 8: Time Travel 9: Fictional Duration and Motion: Discrete or Continuous? Part III: Identity and Persistence 10: Identity and Development of Characters and Fictions 11: Identity of Fictional Times Part IV: Worlds and their Representation 12: True to a Story vs. True in a Fiction 13: Indefiniteness and its Logic 14: Incomplete Time-Series Bibliography Index
Introduction 1: Theories of Fiction Part I: Tense in Fiction 2: Theories of Time and Tense 3: Fictional Time--A-series or B-series? 4: The Fictional Future Part II: Temporal Structures and the Structures of Representations 5: Branching Fictional Time? 6: Pausing and Rewinding Fictional Time? 7: Recurring Fictional Time? 8: Time Travel 9: Fictional Duration and Motion: Discrete or Continuous? Part III: Identity and Persistence 10: Identity and Development of Characters and Fictions 11: Identity of Fictional Times Part IV: Worlds and their Representation 12: True to a Story vs. True in a Fiction 13: Indefiniteness and its Logic 14: Incomplete Time-Series Bibliography Index
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