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  title info:
    title: Truth and reference in the making of fiction
    sub title: a view on fictionality
  name:
    name part: García-Carpintero, Manuel
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2025
    copyright date: 2025
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xii, 226 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: A standard feature of our engagement with fictions is that we praise them as if they offer true insights on factual, psychological or evaluative matters, or criticize them as if they purport to do it but fail. But it is not so easy to make sense of this practice, since fictions traffic in made-up narratives concerning non-existing characters. This book offers the reader conceptual tools to reflect on such issues, providing an overarching, systematic account of philosophical issues concerning fictions and illustrating them with analysis of compelling examples. It asks whether fiction is defined, as John Searle and others have claimed, by mere pretense, the simulation of ordinary representational practices like assertions or requests, or whether it is defined by invitations or prescriptions to imagine. And it advances an original proposal on the nature of fictions, explaining why fictions can refer to the world and state facts about it.
  table of contents: Introduction -- Truth in fiction -- On the mood for fiction -- Fictional worlds -- Fictive imagining as entertainings -- Desires and emotions in response to fiction -- Fictional narrators -- Interpretation and ontology -- Learning from fiction -- Fictional characters and fictional reference.
  note: Manuel García-Carpintero.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-223) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Literature
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Reference (Philosophy) in literature
  subject:
    topic: Truth in literature
  classification: PN3347 .G28 2025
  classification: 809.3/001
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Cambridge studies in philosophy
  identifier: 9781009298452
  identifier: 1009298453
  identifier: 9781009298476
  identifier: 100929847X
  identifier: 9781009298490
  identifier: 2025010601
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 250312
    record change date: 20260518205402.5
    record identifier: in00005693592