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Willard, Mary Elizabeth.

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Fictional characters as abstract artifacts.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Fictional characters as abstract artifacts./
Author:	Willard, Mary Elizabeth.
Description:	193 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-06, Section: A, page: 2068.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International70-06A.
Subject:	Literature, General. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3361624
ISBN:	9781109205121

Fictional characters as abstract artifacts.
Willard, Mary Elizabeth.

Fictional characters as abstract artifacts. - 193 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-06, Section: A, page: 2068.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Yale University, 2009.

Our discourse concerning fiction and fictional characters reveals three paradoxical features: we sometimes speak as if fictional characters are ordinary physical objects, yet we are quick to assert both that they do not exist, and that they are the creations of authors. I argue that the account of fictional characters that best explains these competing utterances is artifactualism , under which fictional characters are abstract representations which come into existence through the intentional action of an author.

ISBN: 9781109205121Subjects--Topical Terms:

1018152
Literature, General.

Fictional characters as abstract artifacts.
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520 $a Our discourse concerning fiction and fictional characters reveals three paradoxical features: we sometimes speak as if fictional characters are ordinary physical objects, yet we are quick to assert both that they do not exist, and that they are the creations of authors. I argue that the account of fictional characters that best explains these competing utterances is artifactualism , under which fictional characters are abstract representations which come into existence through the intentional action of an author.
520 $a I proceed by arguing against the most promising anti-realist alternative to artifactualism, fictionalism. I argue that the attitude integral to fictionalism, ideal acceptance, is unstable outside of quarantined pretense-theoretic contexts, and thus fictionalism collapses into realism or other, less plausible anti-realist alternatives. I then turn to the primary realist alternative to artifactualism, focusing on a recent theory that identifies abstracta with patterns of properties, but I argue that it struggles to explain the intuitive claim that characters are created.
520 $a Artifactualism, however, is vulnerable to two major objections. First, there is a tension with holding both that fictional characters are intentional objects and that they are enduring objects. I develop an argument from anaphora to show that the process which creates fictional characters differs from other intentional actions, in that it can fail to bring any characters into existence. The second major objection says that an eminently plausible principle of identity which all realists espouse commits them to the existence of logically impossible objects. I argue that the artifactualist should give up this principle and instead individuate characters by distinguishing identity within the story from identity outside of the story.
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