Fictional Names and Co-Identification

Philosophers' Imprint 23:1-23 (2023)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

This paper provides an account of co-identification with fictional names, the way in which a fictional name can be used to talk about the same fictional character on disparate occasions. I develop a version of the view that fictional characters are roles constituted by sets of properties that is couched within a dynamic understanding of fictional discourse. I argue that this view captures what is right about both so-called name-centric and information-centric approaches to co-identification with fictional names. I show how the dynamic view in addition accounts for a number of uses of fictional names, including fictional uses, assertoric uses, metafictional uses.

Other Versions

No versions found

Links

PhilArchive



    Upload a copy of this work     Papers currently archived: 98,316

External links

Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

Similar books and articles

Fictional names and individual concepts.Andreas Stokke - 2020 - Synthese 198 (8):7829-7859.
Artifactualism and Inadvertent Authorial Creation.Zsófia Zvolenszky - 2015 - Proceedings of the European Society for Aesthetics Vol. 7/2015.
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love 'Sherlock Holmes': A Reply to Garcia-Carpintero.Heidi Savage - 2020 - Teorema: International Journal of Philosophy 1 (XXXIX):105-134.
An Inferentialist Account of Fictional Names.Byeong D. Lee - 2022 - Organon F: Medzinárodný Časopis Pre Analytickú Filozofiu 29 (3):290–326.
Names and illusions.Paolo Leonardi - 2003 - Dialectica 57 (2):165–176.
Actualisme et fiction.Jérôme Pelletier - 2000 - Dialogue 39 (1):77-.

Analytics

Added to PP
2023-10-19

Downloads
58 (#299,080)

6 months
16 (#163,407)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Author's Profile

Andreas Stokke
Uppsala University

Citations of this work

Fiction as a defeater.Andreas Stokke - forthcoming - Philosophical Quarterly.

Add more citations

References found in this work

Naming and Necessity.Saul Kripke - 1980 - Critica 17 (49):69-71.
On the Plurality of Worlds.David Lewis - 1986 - Revue Philosophique de la France Et de l'Etranger 178 (3):388-390.
Mental Files.François Récanati - 2012 - Oxford, GB: Oxford University Press.
Designation.Michael Devitt - 1981 - New York: Columbia University Press.
The Varieties of Reference.Gareth Evans & John Mcdowell - 1986 - Philosophy 61 (238):534-538.

View all 52 references / Add more references