虚構のオブジェクト Fictional Objects

Brock, Stuart (EDT)/ Everett, Anthony (EDT)

Oxford University Press（2015/06発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 308 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780198735595
• DDC分類 111.1

Full Description

Eleven original essays discuss a range of puzzling philosophical questions about fictional characters, and more generally about fictional objects. For example, they ask questions like the following: Do they really exist? What would fictional objects be like if they existed? Do they exist eternally? Are they created? Who by? When and how? Can they be destroyed? If so, how? Are they abstract or concrete? Are they actual? Are they complete objects? Are they possible objects? How many fictional objects are there? What are their identity conditions? What kinds of attitudes can we have towards them? This volume will be a landmark in the philosophical debate about fictional objects, and will influence higher-level debates within metaphysics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language.

Contents

Introduction ; 1. A Reconsidered Defense of Haecceitism Regarding Fictional Individuals ; 2. Objects of Fiction and Objects of Thought ; 3. Wondering About Witches ; 4. The Philosopher's Stone and Other Mythical Objects ; 5. A Suitable Metaphysics for Fictional Entities: Why One Has to Run Syncretistically ; 6. Creationism and the Problem of Indiscernible Fictional Objects ; 7. Brutal Identity ; 8. The Importance of Fictional Properties ; 9. Fictionalism, Fictional Characters, and Fictional Inference ; 10. Fictional Discourse and Fictionalisms ; 11. Ideas for Stories ; Index