Much Ado About Nonexistence: Fiction and Reference

by Avrum Stroll

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0742548341
• ISBN13: 9780742548343
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 8.9"