Titre :

TOWARDS A SEMANTICS FOR THE ARTIFACTUAL THEORY OF FICTION AND BEYOND

Auteur(s) :

Fontaine, M [Auteur]
Savoirs, Textes, Langage (STL) - UMR 8163 [STL]
Rahman, Shahid [Auteur]
Savoirs, Textes, Langage (STL) - UMR 8163 [STL]

Titre de la revue :

Synthese

Éditeur :

Springer Verlag (Germany)

Date de publication :

2014

ISSN :

0039-7857

Mot(s)-clé(s) en anglais :

artifactual theory
ontological dependence
fiction
non-existence

Discipline(s) HAL :

Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Philosophie
Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Linguistique
Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Littératures

Résumé en anglais : [en]

In her book Fiction and Metaphysics [1999] Amie Thomasson, influenced by the work of Roman Ingarden, develops a phenomenological approach to fictional entities in order to explain how non-fictional entities can be referred ...
Lire la suite >In her book Fiction and Metaphysics [1999] Amie Thomasson, influenced by the work of Roman Ingarden, develops a phenomenological approach to fictional entities in order to explain how non-fictional entities can be referred to intrafictionally and transfictionally, for example in the context of literary interpretation. As our starting point we take Thomasson's realist theory of literary fictional objects, according to which such objects actually exist, albeit as abstract and artifactual entities. Thomasson's approach relies heavily on the notion of ontological dependence, but its precise semantics has not yet been developed. Moreover, the modal approach to the notion of ontological dependence underlying the Artifactual Theory has recently been contested by several scholars. The main aims of this paper are (i) to develop a semantic approach to the notion of ontological dependence in the context of the Artifactual Theory of fiction, and in so doing bridge a number of philosophical and logical gaps; (ii) to generalize Thomasson's categorial theory of ontological dependence by reconstructing ontological categories of entities purely in terms of different structures of ontological dependence, rather than in terms of the basic kinds of entities the categorical entities depend on.Lire moins >

Langue :

Anglais

Vulgarisation :

Non

Projet ANR :

Théorie du Droit et Logique

Collections :

• Savoirs, Textes, Langage (STL) - UMR 8163

Source :

Harvested from HAL