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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      September 2009
      November 1998
      ISBN:
      9780511527463
      9780521640800
      9780521065214
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511527463
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.363kg, 188 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 140 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.24kg, 188 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, Epistemology and Metaphysics, Philosophy: General Interest, Literary Theory, Philosophy
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Philosophy
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    Subjects:
    Literature, Epistemology and Metaphysics, Philosophy: General Interest, Literary Theory, Philosophy
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Philosophy
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    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.

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