Much Ado About Nonexistence
Much Ado About Nonexistence

Author: Avrum Stroll

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Published: 2007-04-26

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 1461640229

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The problem of the nature of fiction and the problem of nonexistence are closely tied because fiction often talks about nonexistent entities. In Fiction, Reference, and Nonexistence, A. P. Martinich and Avrum Stroll, two of America's leading philosophers, explore fiction and undertake an analytic philosophical study of fiction and its reference and its relation to truth. Included in the discussion is the authors' new, contemporary theory of fiction developed as an extension of the speech act theory of H. P. Grice, as well as the relationship between nonexistence and Bertrand Russell's well-known theory of definite descriptions, and Hilary Putnam's theory of the relationship between common names and the world.

Much Ado about Nonexistence
Much Ado about Nonexistence

Author: Aloysius Martinich

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 9780742548343

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Fiction, Reference, and Nonexistence contains a new, contemporary theory of fiction and discusses the connection between language and reality. Martinich and Stroll, two of America's leading philosophers, explore fiction and undertake an analytic philosophical study of fiction and its reference, and its relation to truth.

The Late Sigmund Freud
The Late Sigmund Freud

Author: Todd Dufresne

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017-03-24

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 110717872X

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A fundamental reassessment of the meaning of Freud's last phase of work: the applied psychoanalysis of culture and society.

Nonexistent Objects in Buddhist Philosophy
Nonexistent Objects in Buddhist Philosophy

Author: Zhihua Yao

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2020-01-23

Total Pages: 203

ISBN-13: 1350121495

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Can we know what there is not? This book examines the historical development of the concept of the cognition of nonexistent objects in several major Buddhist philosophical schools. Beginning with a study of the historical development of the concept in Mahasamghika, Darstantika, Yogacara and Sautrantika, it evaluates how successfully they have argued against the extreme view of their main opponent the Sarvastivadins and established their view that one can know what there is not. It also includes thematic studies on the epistemological issues of nonexistence, discussing making sense of empty terms, controversies over negative judgments, and a proper classification of the conceptions of nothing or nonexistence. Taking a comparative approach to these topics, this book considers contemporary Western philosophers such as Husserl, Heidegger, Meinong and Russell alongside representative figures of the Buddhist Pramana School. Based on first-hand study of primary sources in Sanskrit, Chinese and Tibetan, Nonexistent Objects in Buddhist Philosophy makes available the rich discussions and debates on the epistemological issues of nonexistence in Buddhist philosophy to students and researchers in Asian and comparative philosophy.

Fictional Objects
Fictional Objects

Author: Stuart Brock

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2015-06-04

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 0191054534

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Eleven original essays discuss a range of puzzling philosophical questions about fictional characters, and more generally about fictional objects. For example, they ask questions like the following: Do they really exist? What would fictional objects be like if they existed? Do they exist eternally? Are they created? Who by? When and how? Can they be destroyed? If so, how? Are they abstract or concrete? Are they actual? Are they complete objects? Are they possible objects? How many fictional objects are there? What are their identity conditions? What kinds of attitudes can we have towards them? This volume will be a landmark in the philosophical debate about fictional objects, and will influence higher-level debates within metaphysics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language.

Truth in Fiction
Truth in Fiction

Author: Franck Yann Lihoreau

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2013-05-02

Total Pages: 315

ISBN-13: 3110326795

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The essays collected in this volume are all concerned with the connection between fiction and truth. This question is of utmost importance to metaphysics, philosophy of language, philosophical logic and epistemology, raising in each of these areas and at their intersections a large number of issues related to creation, existence, reference, identity, modality, belief, assertion, imagination, pretense, etc. All these topics and many more are addressed in this collection, which brings together original essays written from various points of view by philosophers of diverse trends. These essays constitute major contributions to the current debates that the connection between truth and fiction continually enlivens, and give a sense of the directions in which research on this question is heading.

Fiction and Representation
Fiction and Representation

Author: Zoltán Vecsey

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2019-06-17

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 3110665158

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One of the basic insights of the book is that there is a notion of non-relational linguistic representation which can fruitfully be employed in a systematic approach to literary fiction. This notion allows us to develop an improved understanding of the ontological nature of fictional entities. A related insight is that the customary distinction between extra-fictional and intra-fictional contexts has only a secondary theoretical importance. This distinction plays a central role in nearly all contemporary theories of literary fiction. There is a tendency among researchers to take it as obvious that the contrast between these two types of contexts is crucial for understanding the boundary that divides fiction from non-fiction. Seen from the perspective of non-relational representation, the key question is rather how representational networks come into being and how consumers of literary texts can, and do, engage with these networks. As a whole, the book provides, for the first time, a comprehensive artefactualist account of the nature of fictional entities.

The Nonexistent
The Nonexistent

Author: Anthony Everett

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2013-08-29

Total Pages: 255

ISBN-13: 0199674795

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This book defends the common sense view that there are no such things as fictional people, places, and things. It then creates an argument against fictional realism by finding the faults and problems with the fictional realism argument.

Much Ado about Religion
Much Ado about Religion

Author: Jayanta Bhaṭṭa

Publisher: NYU Press

Published: 2005-02

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 0814719791

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This play satirizes various religions in Kashmir and their place in the politics of King Shankaravarman (883–902). The leading character is a young and dynamic orthodox graduate, whose career starts as a glorious campaign against the heretic Buddhists, Jains, and other antisocial sects. By the end of the play he realizes that the interests of the monarch do not encourage such inquisitional rigor. Unique in Sanskrit literature, Jayánta Bhatta's play, Much Ado About Religion, is a curious mixture of fiction and history, of scathing satire and intriguing philosophical argumentation. The play satirizes various religions in Kashmir and their place in the politics of King Shánkara·varman (883-902 CE). The leading character, Sankárshana, is a young and dynamic orthodox graduate of Vedic studies, whose career starts as a glorious campaign against the heretic Buddhists, Jains and other antisocial sects. Co-published by New York University Press and the JJC Foundation For more on this title and other titles in the Clay Sanskrit series, please visit http://www.claysanskritlibrary.org

Much Ado about Nothing
Much Ado about Nothing

Author: Edward Grant

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1981-05-29

Total Pages: 484

ISBN-13: 0521229839

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Provides a description of the major ideas about void space within and beyond the world that were formulated between the fourteenth and early eighteenth centuries.