WORLDS, OBJECTS, AND THEORIES OF FICTION

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dc.coverageSTUDIA UBB PHILOSOPHIA, LXV, 1, 2020 (p. 39 – 52)en-US
dc.creatorRUSU, Mihai
dc.date2020-04-20
dc.date.accessioned2026-02-21T10:39:08Z
dc.descriptionThe main aim of this paper is to provide a critical discussion of some key issues concerning the possible-world analysis of fiction. After a review of the most important philosophical questions concerning truth, reference, names and identity, and their bearing on fiction, I outline the possible-world framework, as used by David Lewis (1978) in his analysis, and examine its most important problems. A special interest is granted to the limits of the Lewisian pretense interpretation of fiction that are highlighted by works of cinema. I conclude with an appraisal of the puzzles generated by the attempts to draw borders between and within the worlds of fiction, and emphasize the need for a better mutual understanding of the two perspectives that are essential for a possible-world interpretation of fiction: literary theory and philosophy.en-US
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dc.identifierhttps://studia.reviste.ubbcluj.ro/index.php/subbphilosophia/article/view/2707
dc.identifier10.24193/subbphil.2020.1.03
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14637/1011
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherBabeș-Bolyai University / Cluj University Pressen-US
dc.relationhttps://studia.reviste.ubbcluj.ro/index.php/subbphilosophia/article/view/2707/2605
dc.rightsCopyright (c) 2020 Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Philosophiaen-US
dc.rightshttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0en-US
dc.sourceStudia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Philosophia; Volume 65, No. 1, April 2020; 39 – 52en-US
dc.source2065-9407
dc.source10.24193/subbphil.2020.1
dc.subjectpossible worlds, modal logic, modal metaphysics, fiction, David Lewis, Thomas Pavelen-US
dc.titleWORLDS, OBJECTS, AND THEORIES OF FICTIONen-US
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/article
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
dc.typePeer-reviewed Articleen-US
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