Fiction, Indispensability and Truths

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents 2
3. Acknowledgments 5
4. Introduction 7
5. Fictional Characters and Indeterminate Identity 27
6. Two-Dimensionalism and Fictional Names 43
7. Classical Possibilism and Fictional Objects 77
8. How Creationism Supports Kripke’s Vichianism on Fiction 93
9. Creating Non-Existents 107
10. Sweet Nothings: The Semantics, Pragmatics, and Ontology of Fiction 119
11. Fiction and Acceptance-Relative Truth, Belief and Assertion 137
12. Fictional Realism and Its Discontents 153
13. The Fiction of Creationism 203
14. Virtual Worlds and Interactive Fictions 223
15. Fiction, Indispensability and Truths 245
16. References 287
17. Notes on Contributors 301
18. Index 305
19. Backmatter 309