How Ficta Follow Fiction, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2006
A Syncretistic Account of Fictional Entities
Philosophical Studies Series, Vol. 105

This book presents a novel theory of fictional entities which integrates the work of previous authors. It puts forward a new metaphysical conception of the nature of these entities, according to which a fictional entity is a compound entity built up from both a make-believe theoretical element and a set-theoretical element. The author advances a new combined semantic and ontological defence of the existence of fictional entities.

A new metaphysics for fictional entities

A genuine ontological argument for fictional entities

An original treatment of fictional discourse

A syncretistic theory