Add to ORKGJohn Searle and I agree about many important aspects about individual speech acts within fiction. I hope to reduce the area of disagreement by explaining how much work an analysis of fiction as linguistic behavior can do to solve the problems of truth and reference in fiction. The elements of the analysis include a concept of suspending H. P. Grice’s maxims of conversation, a view about criteria for the application of words and concepts, and the acceptance of institutions and institutional facts
In ordinary critical practice, we take for granted that we can learn from fictions (literary or visu...
In his book The Nature of Fiction (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991) Greg Currie makes th...
The distinction between fiction and non-fiction, between a text that is true and one that is not, is...
John Searle’s and R. Rorty’s deliberations represent two different view on a problem of fictional di...
In recent work, Kendall Walton has abandoned his very influential account of the fictionality of p i...
Taking inspiration from Searle’s ‘The Logic of Fictional Discourse’, this essay presents an argument...
In this paper, first of all, I want to try a new defense of the utterance approach as to the relatio...
In this entry I will offer a survey of the contemporary debate on fic- tionalism, which is a distinc...
In this dissertation, I contribute to contemporary debates in analytic philosophy about truth, inter...
In his book "Fiction and Diction", Gerard Genette bemoans a contradiction between the pretense and t...
Some philosophers of fiction – most famously Jerold Levinson1 - have tried to argue that fictional n...
Fiction is often characterized by way of a contrast with truth, as, for example, in the familiar cou...
Briefly sketched, I argue for four interrelated claims: (a) Works of fiction can be based ...
A novel and insightful understanding of the role of fiction, developed by Peter Lamarque and Stein H...
According to many realist philosophers of fiction, one needs to posit an ontology of existing fictio...
In ordinary critical practice, we take for granted that we can learn from fictions (literary or visu...
In his book The Nature of Fiction (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991) Greg Currie makes th...
The distinction between fiction and non-fiction, between a text that is true and one that is not, is...
John Searle’s and R. Rorty’s deliberations represent two different view on a problem of fictional di...
In recent work, Kendall Walton has abandoned his very influential account of the fictionality of p i...
Taking inspiration from Searle’s ‘The Logic of Fictional Discourse’, this essay presents an argument...
In this paper, first of all, I want to try a new defense of the utterance approach as to the relatio...
In this entry I will offer a survey of the contemporary debate on fic- tionalism, which is a distinc...
In this dissertation, I contribute to contemporary debates in analytic philosophy about truth, inter...
In his book "Fiction and Diction", Gerard Genette bemoans a contradiction between the pretense and t...
Some philosophers of fiction – most famously Jerold Levinson1 - have tried to argue that fictional n...
Fiction is often characterized by way of a contrast with truth, as, for example, in the familiar cou...
Briefly sketched, I argue for four interrelated claims: (a) Works of fiction can be based ...
A novel and insightful understanding of the role of fiction, developed by Peter Lamarque and Stein H...
According to many realist philosophers of fiction, one needs to posit an ontology of existing fictio...
In ordinary critical practice, we take for granted that we can learn from fictions (literary or visu...
In his book The Nature of Fiction (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991) Greg Currie makes th...
The distinction between fiction and non-fiction, between a text that is true and one that is not, is...