Truth in Fiction

The essays collected in this volume are all concerned with the connection between fiction and truth. This question is of utmost importance to metaphysics, philosophy of language, philosophical logic and epistemology, raising in each of these areas and at their intersections a large number of issues related to creation, existence, reference, identity, modality, belief, assertion, imagination, pretense, etc. All these topics and many more are addressed in this collection, which brings together original essays written from various points of view by philosophers of diverse trends. These essays constitute major contributions to the current debates that the connection between truth and fiction continually enlivens, and give a sense of the directions in which research on this question is heading.

Auteur
Franck Lihoreau is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow for the Portuguese Science and Technology Foundation (FCT) at the Philosophy of Language Institute (IFL), New University of Lisbon. His main research interests include epistemology, philosophical logic and linguistics, metaphysics, and the philosophy of fiction. He is the editor of a book on Knowledge and Questions (2008).