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First edition. |
Description |
1 online resource |
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text file |
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. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Fictitious characters -- Philosophy.
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Fictitious characters. |
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Philosophy. |
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Fiction.
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Fiction. |
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Object (Philosophy)
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Object (Philosophy) |
Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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Electronic books.
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Fiction.
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Added Author |
Brock, Stuart, 1968- editor.
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Everett, Anthony, 1968- editor.
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Other Form: |
Print version 9780198735595 |
ISBN |
9780191799631 (electronic book) |
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0191799637 (electronic book) |
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9780191054525 (electronic book) |
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0191054526 (electronic book) |
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