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Can fiction and veritism go hand in hand?

Zagadnienia Filozoficzne w Nauce, 2023
The epistemology of models has to face a conundrum: models are often described as highly idealised, and yet they are considered to be vehicles for scientific explanations. Truth-oriented—veritist—conceptions of explanation seem thereby undermined by this
Antoine Brandelet
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Pragmatism, Fictionalism, and Scientific Model Building

Análisis Filosófico
In our present article, we first offer a critical review of the pragmatic conception of science and how this doctrine has evolved to the present day.
Nélida Gentile, Susana Lucero
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Realism and Aesthetic-Semiotic Theories Applied to Cinema with a Combination of Live-Action and Animation (1900-1988)

Cinergie, 2022
The article is an essay about the concept of fiction/reality applied to live-action cinema combined with animation. In particular, the article will deal with a diachronic (1900-1988) and aesthetic analysis.
Massimo Bonura
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Science in Fiction [PDF]

Science, 1922
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The Social Reality of Virtual Worlds

Metaphysics
What is the ontological status of virtual worlds? The two prominent positions in the recent debate are David Chalmers’s virtual digitalism and Neil McDonnell and Nathan Wildman’s virtual fictionalism. In this paper, I argue that there are good reasons to
Robert Fraser
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Models and fiction [PDF]

Synthese, 2009
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Quinean Ontological Commitment Derailed [PDF]

Analiza i Egzystencja, 2013
What should we believe exists? The Quinean response is straightforward: We should believe in all and only those objects over which we must quantify in our best scientific theories.
Roxanne Marie Kurtz
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Fictionalisme théologique versus pragmatisme religieux : Vaihinger ou James ?

ThéoRèmes, 2018
This paper is part of a larger philosophical project whose finality is to present the Kantian and Neokantian sources of what is now called "Theological fictionalism".
Christophe Bouriau
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Netflix and kill? Disruptive Innovation im Zeitalter der Digitalisierung

Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft, 2020
Im jungen Feld der digitalen Mediengeschichte untersucht die Studie Medieninnovation und Wandlungsprozesse am Beispiel von Netflix. Theoretische Überlegungen hierfür gehen auf Balbi, Stöber, den Ansatz der disruptive innovation sowie Beckerts Konzept des
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The Fiction in Non-Fiction Film

Revista ICONO 14. Revista científica de Comunicación y Tecnologías emergentes, 2019
Over the past few decades film theory, major scholars and acclaimed filmmakers have established that documentary just like fiction must resort to ambiguous and subjective rhetorical figures in order to represent the world. This has led some scholars to conclude that documentary as a term referring to itself as being non-fictional might be disregarding ...
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