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Title: Catharine Abell
"Fictional Entities".
I argue that fictional entities exist and that authors create them simply
by making fictive utterances with certain features. I draw on recent
research in social ontology to identify their existence conditions and to
explain their nature. I argue that fictional entities are abstracta.
Nevertheless, the complete metaphysical grounds for facts about their
existence are limited to facts about authors’ intentions, the syntactic and
semantic features of their utterances, and audiences’ ability to identify
certain of those intentions. We ascribe two different kinds of properties
to fictional entities: internal properties (those authors ascribe to them
by their fictive utterances) and external properties (those ascribed in
discourse about fiction). Although fictional entities are not the kinds of
things that can have most of the internal properties ascribed to them, I
argue that fictive utterances create an intensional context, and so are not
to be interpreted as claiming that abstracta possess these internal
properties. I argue that the identity and individuation conditions for
fictional entities are determined by their external properties. Many
anti-realist objections to the possibility of providing adequate identity
and individuation conditions for fictional entities result from wrongly
taking those conditions to be determined by their internal properties.
When: Wed 12 Dec 2018 15:00 – 16:30 Eastern Australia Time - Sydney
Calendar: Current Projects
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* Kristie Miller- creator
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