Empty names, fiction, and the puzzles of non-existence
By: edited by Anthony Everett & Thomas Hofweber.
Contributors: Everett, Anthony J., 1968-; Hofweber, Thomas, 1969-
Publisher: CSLI Publications; Center for the Study of Language and Inf
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 325
Subjects: Ontology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-321) and index.
Table of contents: title: Much ado about nothing -- Anthony Everett, Thomas Hofweber; title: Pleonastic Fregianism and empty names -- Stephen Schiffer; title: Emptiness without compromise -- Kenneth A. Taylor; title: Referentialism and empty names -- Anthony Everett; title: On myth -- Avrom Faderman; title: Existence as metaphor? -- Kendall Walton; title: Negative Existentials -- Fred Kroon; title: Pretense theory and abstract object theory -- Edward N. Zalta; title: Making up stories -- Harry Deutsch; title: Real people in unreal contexts -- Stacie Friend; title: Semantic pretense -- Mark Richard; title: Quantification and fictional discourse -- Peter van Inwagen; title: Quantification and non-existent objects -- Thomas Hofweber -- A; title: paradox of existence-- Stephen Yablo.