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An Inferentialist Account of Fictional Names [PDF]

Organon F, 2023
The goal of this paper is to present and defend an inferentialist account of the meaning of fictional names on the basis of Sellars-Brandom’s inferentialist semantics and a Brandomian anaphoric theory of reference.
Byeong D. Lee
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Fictional Tellers: A Radical Fictionalist Semantics for Fictional Discourse [PDF]

Organon F, 2021
This essay proposes a dissolution of the so-called ‘semantic problem of fictional names’ by arguing that fictional names are only fictionally proper names.
Stefano Predelli
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How Can Millians Believe in Superheroes? [PDF]

Organon F, 2021
What is the content of beliefs expressed by sentences with fictional names? Millianism has notoriously struggled to give a satisfactory answer to this question. Some Millians have argued that fictional names are empty names.
Juliana Faccio Lima
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Fictional Names and Fictional Concepts: A Moderate Fictionalist Account [PDF]

Organon F, 2021
The main thesis I want to defend in this essay is that a fictional name refers to an individual concept, understood as a mental file that stores information, in the form of different descriptive concepts, about a purported individual.
Eleonora Orlando
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The Meanings of Fictional Names [PDF]

Organon F, 2021
According to Millianism, the meaning of a name is exhausted by its referent. According to anti-realism about fictional entities, there are no such entities.
Fiora Salis
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Fictional Names: Reference, Definiteness and Ontology [PDF]

Organon F, 2021
Definite linguistic expressions, for example proper names and singular and plural pronouns, are easy to introduce. Indefinite expressions may pave the way, but are not essential.
Mark Sainsbury
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Some Further Remarks on Hybrid View of Fictional Characters [PDF]

Organon F, 2021
In this short paper, I focus on several properties of the so-called Hybrid View of Fictional Characters. First, I present the theory to be discussed.
Miloš Kosterec
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Translating English Fictional Names

Iperstoria, 2022
This paper highlights the pivotal role played by proper names in fantasy literature and examines the techniques employed by the Italian translators of J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings in the translation of anthroponyms.
Gloria Mambelli
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Anti-Realism about Fictional Names at Work: A New Theory for Metafictional Sentences [PDF]

Organon F, 2021
In this article, I contribute to ongoing debates about the status of fictional names. The main debate in the philosophy of language focuses on whether fictional names should be thought of as non-referring terms (this is anti-realism) or referring terms ...
Louis Rouillé
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Frege’s Equivalence Thesis and Reference Failure [PDF]

Organon F, 2021
Frege claims that sentences of the form ‘A’ are equivalent to sentences of the form ‘it is true that A’ (The Equivalence Thesis). Frege also says that there are fictional names that fail to refer, and that sentences featuring fictional names fail to ...
Nathan Hawkins
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