Fiction and Metaphysics by Amie L Thomasson
This challenging study places fiction squarely at the centre of the discussion of metaphysics. Philosophers have traditionally treated fiction as involving a set of narrow problems in logic or the philosophy of language. By contrast Amie Thomasson argues that fiction has far-reaching implications for central problems of metaphysics. The book develops an 'artifactual' theory of fiction, whereby fictional characters are abstract artifacts as ordinary as laws or symphonies or works of literature. By understanding fictional characters we come to understand how other cultural and social objects are established on the basis of the independent physical world and the mental states of human beings.Amie Thomasson is Professor of Philosophy and Cooper Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Miami. She is the author of Ordinary Objects and Fiction and Metaphysics, and co-editor (with David W. Smith) of Phenomenology and Philosophy of Mind. In addition, she has published
more than 50 book chapters and articles on topics in metaphysics, metaontology, fiction, philosophy of mind and phenomenology, the philosophy of art, and social ontology.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780521065214 |
| ISBN 10 | 0521065216 |
| Title | Fiction and Metaphysics |
| Author | Amie L Thomasson |
| Series | Cambridge Studies In Philosophy |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2008-06-12 |
| Number of pages | 188 |
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