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Title Fictional objects / Stuart Brock and Anthony Everett.

Publication Info. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015.

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Edition First edition.
Description 1 online resource
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary 11 original essays discuss a range of puzzling philosophical questions about characters in fiction and other fictional objects. For example: Do they really exist? Are they created? Can they be destroyed? Are they abstract or concrete? What are their identity conditions? What kinds of attitudes can we have towards them?
Contents A reconsidered defence of Haecceitism regarding fictional individuals / William G. Lycan -- Objects of fiction and objects of thought / Robert Howell -- Wondering about witches / David Braun -- The philosopher's stone and other mythical objects / Nathan Salmon -- A suitable metaphysics for fictional entities : why one has to run syncretistically / Alberto Voltolini -- Creationism and the problem of indiscernible fictional objects / Frederick Kroon -- Brutal identity / Ben Caplan and Cathleen Muller -- The importance of fictional properties / Sarah Sawyer -- Fictionalism, fictional characters, and fictionalist inference / Stuart Brock -- Fictional discourse and fictionalisms / Amie L. Thomasson -- Ideas for stories / Anthony Everett and Timothy Schroeder.
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Subject Fictitious characters -- Philosophy.
Fictitious characters.
Philosophy.
Fiction.
Fiction.
Object (Philosophy)
Object (Philosophy)
Genre/Form Fiction.
Electronic books.
Fiction.
Added Author Brock, Stuart, 1968- editor.
Everett, Anthony, 1968- editor.
Other Form: Print version 9780198735595
ISBN 9780191799631 (electronic book)
0191799637 (electronic book)
9780191054525 (electronic book)
0191054526 (electronic book)