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OverviewAnthony Everett defends the commonsense view that there are no such things as fictional people, places, and things. More precisely he develops and defends a pretense theoretic account on which there are no such things as fictional objects and our talk and thought that purports to be about them takes place within the scope of a pretense. Nevertheless we may mistakenly suppose there are fictional objects because we mistake the fact that certain utterances count as true within the pretense, and convey veridical information about the real world, for the genuine truth of those utterances. In the first half of The Nonexistent an account of this form is motivated, developed in detail, and defended from objections. The second half of the book then argues against fictional realism, the view that we should accept fictional objects into our ontology. First it is argued that the standard arguments offered for fictional realism all fail. Then a series of problems are raised for fictional realism. The upshot of these is that fictional realism provides an inadequate account of a significant range of talk and thought that purports to concern fictional objects. In contrast the pretense theoretic account developed earlier provides a very straightforward and attractive account of these cases and of fictional character discourse in general. Overall, Everett argues that we gain little but lose much by accepting fictional realism. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Anthony Everett (University of Bristol)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 16.10cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 24.10cm Weight: 0.530kg ISBN: 9780199674794ISBN 10: 0199674795 Pages: 256 Publication Date: 29 August 2013 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of Contents1: Introduction 2: Fiction and the imagination 3: Talking through the pretense 4: Truth, content, aboutness 5: Objections 6: Fictional realism 7: Contra fictional realism 8: Metaphysical problems Bibliography IndexReviewsthe issues it covers are interesting and the discussion erudite ... it is an obvious must read for anyone working in fiction. It will also prove useful - and importantly accessible - to someone less involved in the literature of that area. So philosophers of language and metaphysicians, more broadly, should also be interested in reading this book as worked example of more general issues that they face. Nikk Effingham, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews this book is abundant with complex and subtle arguments against fictional realism Maria E. Reicher, Philosophical Quarterly the issues it covers are interesting and the discussion erudite ... it is an obvious must read for anyone working in fiction. It will also prove useful - and importantly accessible - to someone less involved in the literature of that area. So philosophers of language and metaphysicians, more broadly, should also be interested in reading this book as worked example of more general issues that they face. Nikk Effingham, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews Everetts fine book deserves great consideration Alberto Voltolini, Dialectica This book makes a valuable contribution to the debate between realists and anti-realists about fictional objects. Catharine Abell, British Journal of Aesthetics Author InformationAnthony Everett is a senior lecturer in philosophy at the University of Bristol, having obtained his PhD from Stanford University in 2000. He works in the philosophy of language, and related areas in the philosophy of mind, philosophical logic, metaphysics, and aesthetics. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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