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Character in Fiction and Fiction in Character
The Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 1990This paper examines the concept of fictional character from a psychoanalytic point of view, including its synthesis and the role of reader response. A second section takes up the role of fiction in the development of character.
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Science Fiction, Historical Fiction and Religion Fiction?
Implicit Religion, 2014Afterword
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Yes to Moral Fictionalism; No to Religious Fictionalism
2023Abstract A version of moral fictionalism is presented and defended, modeled on Coleridge’s “suspension of disbelief” and Mill’s solution to the paradox of happiness. The key observation is that sometimes, in order to achieve our goals, we must come at them obliquely—practicing “self-distraction.” This, it is argued, is the case with our ...
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The problems of fiction and fictions
2019Literary phenomena provide a severe testing ground for logical and semantical theories; and certainly (at least until recently?) the phenomena have regularly revealed serious weaknesses in each new theory proposed.
Richard Routley, Val Routley
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Philosophical Studies, 2008
This paper examines the logic of fictions within fictions. I argue that consistently nested consistent fictions must have certain formal characteristics. The most important is that they form a tree structure. Depending on one’s theory of fictional objects, additional constraints may apply regarding the appearance of a fictional object in two or more ...
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This paper examines the logic of fictions within fictions. I argue that consistently nested consistent fictions must have certain formal characteristics. The most important is that they form a tree structure. Depending on one’s theory of fictional objects, additional constraints may apply regarding the appearance of a fictional object in two or more ...
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Fictional Worlds and Fictionality
2003Long before there were theories of the novel, there were robust theories of fiction and fictionality. The fact that some of them appear to refer to poetry may have presented an obstacle to seeing their connection to narrative fiction. The philosophical interest in possible worlds, in the use of world-making as a mode of thought and experimentation, and
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