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Fictional names and individual concepts [PDF]
SynthÈse, 2020 AbstractThis paper defends a version of the realist view that fictional characters exist. It argues for an instance of abstract realist views, according to which fictional characters are roles, constituted by sets of properties. It is argued that fictional names denote individual concepts, functions from worlds to individuals.
Andreas Stokke, Stokke Andreas
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Fictional Names and Co-Identification
Philosophers' Imprint, 2023 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 ...
Andreas Stokke
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The Semantics of Fictional Names
Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 1997Abstract: In this paper we defend a direct reference theory of names. We maintain that the meaning of a name is its bearer. In the case of vacuous names, there is no bearer and they have no meaning. We develop a unified theory of names such that one theory applies to names whether they occur within or outside fiction.
Fred Adams, Gary Fuller, Robert Stecker
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Empty Names, Fictional Names, Mythical Names
Nous, 2005John Stuart Mill (1843) thought that proper names denote individuals and do not connote attributes. Contemporary Millians agree, in spirit. We hold that the semantic content of a proper name is simply its referent. We also think that the semantic content of a declarative sentence is a Russellian structured proposition whose constituents are the ...
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Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 2006
Alan Berger defends a strictly Kripkean view of reference and referring, but puts an original and very useful twist on it by making anaphoric relations central to his own version. He begins by distinguishing two sorts of referring expression: the "F-type," whose reference-transmitting causal-historical chain goes back to a dubbing grounded in a ...
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Alan Berger defends a strictly Kripkean view of reference and referring, but puts an original and very useful twist on it by making anaphoric relations central to his own version. He begins by distinguishing two sorts of referring expression: the "F-type," whose reference-transmitting causal-historical chain goes back to a dubbing grounded in a ...
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Proper Names and their Fictional Uses
Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 2011Fictional names present unique challenges for semantic theories of proper names, challenges strong enough to warrant an account of names different from the standard treatment. The theory developed in this paper is motivated by a puzzle that depends on four assumptions: our intuitive assessment of the truth values of certain sentences, the most ...
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Description, Disagreement, and Fictional Names
Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 2011In this paper, a theory of the contents of fictional names — names of fictional people, places, etc. — will be developed. The fundamental datum that must be addressed by such a theory is that fictional names are, in an important sense, empty: the entities to which they putatively refer do not exist.
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Fiction and the causal theory of names
Poetics, 1979Abstract The paper discusses the causal theory of names and its impact on the theory of fiction. It is claimed that the causal theory of names has a structural and a historical component. Names of fictional beings are structurally alike to usual proper names.
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