Much Ado About Nonexistence: Fiction and Reference

Much Ado About Nonexistence Fiction and Reference 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 developed as an extension of the speech act theory of H. P. Grice, as well as the relationship between nonexistence and Bertrand Russell’s well-known theory of definite descriptions, and Hilary Putnam’s theory of the relationship between common names and the world.Additional ISBNs9780742548343Much Ado About Nonexistence: Fiction and Reference is written by Avrum Stroll and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. ISBNs for Much Ado About Nonexistence are 9781461640226, 1461640229 and the print ISBNs are 9780742548336, 0742548333. Additional ISBNs include 9780742548343.