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Fiction

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• Thesis Text:
  1. This is a somewhat tangential topic for my Thesis, though fictional characters are (usually) persons², so I have to say how I – as an animalist³ – can account for this given that they are not animals⁴. Not particularly hard.
  2. We might also consider what are the persistence conditions⁵ of a fictional character. Are there things his creator cannot do to the character without killing him off? Can the character be resurrected? What is the ontological⁶ status of a fictional character? In what sense – if any – do they exist⁷? What about characters – like Superman – that pass into the public domain? Or – like Dr. Who – that are portrayed as having different characters and bodies across what purports to be a single story-line?
  3. Various Thought Experiments⁸ rely on cases from science-fiction, the suspected impossibility of which can undermine their cogency. I discuss such Science-fiction cases later under the head of TEs⁹.
  4. Yuval Noah Harari argues that many of our everyday beliefs are “convenient fictions” rather than truths. They help to hold society¹⁰ – and the individuals¹¹ within it – together.
  5. Myths divide into redundant fantasies and the still-current ways in which we speak of and seek to make sense of the world in ways that go beyond – or against – what can actually be known.
  6. Sundry philosophers – eg. Hume¹² – complain that various things we normally take for granted (such as the self or persisting objects) are “fictions” – that is, they do not exist¹³.
  7. Fictionalism appears as an alternative to realism with respect to mathematics, modality¹⁴ and the past¹⁵ (and probably elsewhere). This deserves further consideration.

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  Further Remarks:
  1. I have not yet extended the reading lists to include “myth”.

References

• Relevant Works cited above: No items to list.
• For a Page of Links¹⁶ to this Note, Click here. Because of the large number of links, I ran an “updating run” only for “fictionalism”. Since these works are better considered under the head of the Notes on the topics of which “fictionalism” is an account, they do not – in general – feature in the reading lists below.
• Works on this topic that I’ve actually read¹⁷, include the following:-
  • Aeon:
    1. "Aeon - Video - Five Stories", 2021, External Link
    2. "Aeon - Video - George Saunders: on story", 2017, External Link
    3. "Aeon - Video - The Rashomon effect", 2021, External Link
    4. "Del Mar (Maksymilian) - The legal imagination", 2017, External Link, Internal PDF Link
  • General:
    1. "Botros (Sophie) - A Realist Present and a Coherentist Past", 2017
    2. "Botros (Sophie) - Truth, Time and History - A Philosophical Inquiry with Dr Sophie Botros", 2018, External Link
    3. "Casati (Roberto) & Varzi (Achille) - Holes", 1996-2014, Internal PDF Link
    4. "Eagle (Anthony) - Telling Tales", 2006, Internal PDF Link
    5. "Eco (Umberto) - The Name of the Rose", 1984, Book, Note: See the Review.
    6. "Ehrman (Bart D.) - Truth and Fiction in The Da Vinci Code: A Historian Reveals What We Really Know About Jesus, Mary Magdalene, and Constantine", 2004, Book, Footnote₁₈
    7. "Goodman (Nelson) - Fact, Fiction and Forecast", 1990, Book, Footnote₁₉
    8. "Harari (Yuval Noah) - Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind", 2015, Book
    9. "Kalderon (Mark Eli) - Fictionalism in Metaphysics: Introduction", 2005
    10. "Lewis (David) - Truth in Fiction", 1978
    11. "Olson (Eric) - Thinking Animals and the Constitution View", 2001, Write-Up Note²⁰, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
    12. "Orwell (George), Davison (Peter), Taylor (D.J.), Ed. - Nineteen Eighty-Four: The Annotated Edition", 2013, Book
    13. "Passmore (John) - Narratives and Events", 1987, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    14. "Putnam (Hilary) - Is There a Fact of the Matter About Fiction?", 1992, Footnote₂₁
    15. "Rey (Georges) - Meta-atheism: Religious Avowal as Self-Deception", 2007, Internal PDF Link
    16. "Scruton (Roger) - The great swindle", 2012, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    17. "Smith (Barry C.), Broks (Paul), Kennedy (A.L.) & Evans (Jules) - Audio: What Does It Mean to Be Me?", 2015, External Link, Note: See the Introductory Seminar.
    18. "Thomas (Janice L.) - The identity theory", 2000
    19. "Van Inwagen (Peter) - Plantinga’s Replacement Argument", 2007, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
    20. "Williams (Christopher) - Being, Identity and Truth: Preface", 1992
• A further reading list might start with:-
  • General:
    1. "Azzouni (Jody) - Criteria for What Exists", 2004
    2. "Blackburn (Simon) - Fiction and Conviction", 2002?, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    3. "Blackburn (Simon) - Quasi-Realism No Fictionalism", 2005, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 8%
    4. "Borges (Jorge Luis) - Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings", 2000 Reprint, Book, Read = 3%
    5. "Braun (David) - Empty Names", 1993, Internal PDF Link, Read = 6%
    6. "Braun (David) - Empty Names, Fictional Names, Mythical Names", 2005, Internal PDF Link, Read = 3%
    7. "Brock (Stuart) - Fictionalism about Fictional Characters", 2002, Internal PDF Link
    8. "Brock (Stuart) - The Creationist Fiction: The Case against Creationism about Fictional Characters", 2010, Internal PDF Link, Read = 4%, Footnote₂₂
    9. "Brown (M.T.) - Multiple Personality and Personal Identity", 2001, Internal PDF Link
    10. "Brueckner (Anthony) - Humean Fictions", 1988, Internal PDF Link
    11. "Burgess (John P.) - Why I am not a nominalist", 1983, Internal PDF Link
    12. "Byrne (Alex) - Truth In Fiction: The Story Continued", 1993, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    13. "Cave (Terence) - Fictional Identities", 1995, Read = 4%
    14. "Crittenden (Charles) - Unreality - The Metaphysics of Fictional Objects", 1991, Book, Read = 2%
    15. "Dennett (Daniel) - Artifactual Selves: a Response to Lynne Rudder Baker", 2014, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    16. "Dorr (Cian) - What We Disagree about When We Disagree about Ontology", 2003, Internal PDF Link, Read = 11%
    17. "Eklund (Matti) - Fiction, Indifference, and Ontology", 2005, Internal PDF Link, Read = 5%
    18. "Ferguson (Niall), Ed. - Virtual History: Alternatives and Counterfactuals", 2011, Book, Read = 1%
    19. "Frigg (Roman) & Hartmann (Stephan) - Models in Science", 2006/2012, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 5%, Note: Section 2.2.
    20. "Hanley (Richard) - As Good As It Gets: Lewis on Truth in Fiction", 2004
    21. "Jubien (Michael) - Is There Truth in Fiction?", 1997
    22. "Kalderon (Mark Eli), Ed. - Fictionalism in Metaphysics", 2005, Book, Read = 7%, Footnote₂₃
    23. "Kripke (Saul) - Vacuous Names and Fictional Entities", 2011, Internal PDF Link, Read = 10%
    24. "Kroon (Fred) - Review of Towards Non-Being: the Logic and Metaphysics of Intentionality, by Graham Priest", 2005, Internal PDF Link
    25. "LePoidevin (Robin) - Is God a Fiction?", 1996
    26. "LePoidevin (Robin) - Screen Present and Fictional Present", 2016, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 7%
    27. "Livingston (Paisley) & Sauchelli (Andrea) - Philosophical perspectives on fictional characters", 2011, Internal PDF Link, Read = 10%
    28. "Mackie (J.L.) - Identity and Diversity", 1976, Footnote₂₄
    29. "Moore (G.E.), Ryle (Gilbert) & Braithwaite (R.B.) - Symposium: Imaginary Objects", 1933, No Abstract, Internal PDF Link, Read = 2%
    30. "Nolan (Daniel) - Three Problems for 'Strong' Modal Fictionalism", 1997, Internal PDF Link
    31. "Nolan (Daniel) & O'Leary-Hawthorne (John) - Reflexive Fictionalisms", 1996, Internal PDF Link, Read = 11%, Footnote₂₅
    32. "Nozick (Robert) - Fiction", 1981, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    33. "Parsons (Terence) - A Meinongian Analysis of Fictional Objects", 1975, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 17%
    34. "Phillips (John F.) - Truth and Inference in Fiction", 1999, Internal PDF Link
    35. "Plantinga (Alvin) - Possible But Unactual Objects: On What There Isn't", 1974
    36. "Priest (Graham) - Fiction", 2005
    37. "Priest (Graham) - Sylvan's Box: a Short Story and Ten Morals", 1997, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    38. "Proudfoot (Diane) - Possible Worlds Semantics and Fiction", 2006, Internal PDF Link, Read = 4%
    39. "Salmon (Nathan) - Mythical Objects", 2005
    40. "Salmon (Nathan) - Nonexistence", 2005, Internal PDF Link
    41. "Shapiro (Stewart) - No They Don't", 2000, Note: Fictionalism in mathematics.
    42. "Shieh (Sanford) - On the Conceptual Foundations of Anti-Realism", 1998, Internal PDF Link
    43. "Shieh (Sanford) - The Anti-Realist's Past", 2008, Internal PDF Link, Read = 22%
    44. "Stear (Nils-Hennes) - Imaginative and Fictionality Failure: A Normative Approach", 2015, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 7%
    45. "Suddendorf (Thomas) - The Gap", 2014, Book
    46. "Sutherland (John) - Is Heathcliff a Murderer: Puzzles in 19th-Century Fiction", 1996, Book
    47. "Thomasson (Amie L.) - Fiction and Intentionality", 1996, Internal PDF Link, Read = 6%
    48. "Thomasson (Amie L.) - Fiction, Modality and Dependent Abstracta", 1996, Internal PDF Link, Read = 10%
    49. "Thomasson (Amie L.) - Fictional Entities", 2009, Internal PDF Link, Read = 11%
    50. "Thomasson (Amie L.) - Ontological Minimalism", 2001, Internal PDF Link, Read = 17%
    51. "Thomasson (Amie L.) - Speaking of Fictional Characters", 2003, Internal PDF Link, Read = 6%
    52. "Van Inwagen (Peter) - Creatures of Fiction", 1994, Read = 6%
    53. "Van Inwagen (Peter) - Existence, Ontological Commitment and Fictional Entities", 2003, Internal PDF Link, Read = 8%
    54. "Van Inwagen (Peter) - Fiction and Metaphysics", 1983, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 22%
    55. "Velleman (David) - The Self as Narrator", 2005, Internal PDF Link
    56. "Walton (Kendall L.) - Fearing Fictions", 1978, Internal PDF Link
    57. "Williams (Bernard) - Truth and Truthfulness: An Essay in Genealogy", 2002, Book, Read = 2%, Note: Chapter 2.
    58. "Williams (Christopher) - Death and Other Difficulties", 1992, Read = 13%
    59. "Yablo (Stephen) - Go Figure: A Path through Fictionalism", 2001, Internal PDF Link, Read = 4%
    60. "Yablo (Stephen) - Say Holmes Exists; Then What?", 2020, Internal PDF Link, Read = 25%

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• For a list of Works that have been considered, but have missed the cut for inclusion in this Section of my Thesis, see the following:-
  1. Read: No items to list.
  2. Further Reading: No items to list.
• This is mostly a place-holder²⁶.

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In-Page Footnotes:

Footnote 18:

• This is a useful case-study about the distinction between ‘veridical’ and ‘fictional’ accounts of the past.
• In cases where the truth about the past cannot be known, there is still a valid distinction between probable and fantastic readings.

Footnote 19:

• Why did Goodman put ‘Fiction’ in the title?

Footnote 21:

• This paper is about interpretation.

Footnote 22:

• Not a ‘Philosophy of Religion’ paper, despite the introduction.

Footnote 23:

• Most papers not seperately itemised

Footnote 24:

• “Hume’s claim that identity is a fiction”.

Footnote 25:

• Probably move this to Modality in due course.

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Table of the Previous 6 Versions of this Note:

Date	Length	Title
06/07/2023 00:43:12	7461	Fiction
20/09/2022 11:24:00	7259	Fiction
02/05/2022 23:44:10	6878	Fiction
11/02/2021 11:29:46	6329	Fiction
23/09/2020 10:39:22	4721	Fiction
23/01/2019 18:04:19	6847	Fiction

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Note last updated	Reading List for this Topic	Parent Topic
02/08/2026 01:10:05	Fiction	Ontology

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Summary of Notes Referenced by This Note

Animalism	Animals	Awaiting Attention (Personal Identity)	Existence	Hume
Individual	Modality	Note Links Explanation	Olson - Persons and Bodies - Response	Ontology
Persistence Criteria	Person	Plug Note Apologia	Society	Thought Experiments
Time	Works Read - Explanation

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Summary of Notes Citing This Note

Aeon Papers, 2, 3	Dracula	PID Note, Book & Paper Usage, 2, 3, 4	RIP: The Royal Institute of Philosophy - Podcasts	Thesis - Chapter 04 (Basic Metaphysical Issues), 2, 3, 4, 5
Thesis - Chapter 10 (Thought Experiments)	Thesis - Chapter 12 (Conclusion)	Thesis - Current Stance	Thesis - Personal Identity, 2, 3, 4	Website Generator Documentation - Functors, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

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Authors, Books & Papers Citing this Note

Author	Title	Medium	Extra Links	Read?
Blackburn (Simon)	Quasi-Realism No Fictionalism	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5
Boesch (Brandon)	More-than-human science	Paper		Yes
Botros (Sophie)	A Realist Present and a Coherentist Past	Paper	2	Yes
Brock (Stuart)	Fictionalism about Fictional Characters	Paper
Brock (Stuart)	Modal Fictionalism: A Response to Rosen	Paper
Cave (Terence)	Fictional Identities	Paper
Divers (John) & Hagen (Jason)	The Modal Fictionalist Predicament	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Dorr (Cian)	What We Disagree about When We Disagree about Ontology	Paper
Field (Hartry)	Mathematical Objectivity and Mathematical Objects	Paper
Goldberg (Nathaniel) & Gavaler (Chris)	A dinosaur is a story	Paper		Yes
Gotlib (Anna)	Main character syndrome	Paper		Yes
Hains (Brigid) & Hains (Paul)	Aeon: 2019+	Paper	2, 3	Yes
Hale (Bob)	Modal Fictionalism: A Simple Dilemma	Paper
Lowe (E.J.)	Possible Worlds	Paper
Lyons (Siobhan)	Death and the Machine: Intersections of Mortality and Robotics	Book	2	Yes
Menzies (Peter) & Pettit (Philip)	In Defence of Fictionalism about Possible Worlds	Paper
Nolan (Daniel) & O'Leary-Hawthorne (John)	Reflexive Fictionalisms	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15
Orwell (George)	N/A	Author	2
Putnam (Hilary)	Philosophy of Logic	Paper
RIP	The Royal Institute of Philosophy - Podcasts	Paper
Rosen (Gideon)	A Problem for Fictionalism about Possible Worlds	Paper
Rosen (Gideon)	Modal Fictionalism Fixed	Paper	2
Schwitzgebel (Eric)	N/A	Author
Shapiro (Stewart)	No They Don't	Paper
Sider (Ted)	The Ersatz Pluriverse	Paper
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 04 (Basic Metaphysical Issues)	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 10 (Thought Experiments)	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 12 (Conclusion)	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Current Position	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Dracula	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Personal Identity	Paper	2, 3, 4	Yes
Van Fraassen (Bas)	The Scientific Image	Paper
Van Inwagen (Peter)	Materialism and the Psychological-continuity Account of Personal Identity	Paper		Yes
Van Inwagen (Peter)	Metaphysics: Part Two: Why The World Is - Introduction	Paper		Yes
Wallace (Robert M.)	The Genesis of the Copernican World: Translator's Introduction	Paper		Yes
Woodward (Richard)	Is Modal Fictionalism Artificial	Paper
Woodward (Richard)	Why Modal Fictionalism Is Not Self-Defeating	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5
Yablo (Stephen)	Go Figure: A Path through Fictionalism	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5

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References & Reading List

Author	Title	Medium	Source	Read?
Aeon	Video - Five Stories	Paper - Cited	Aeon, 13 October 2021	Yes
Aeon	Video - George Saunders: on story	Paper - By Subtopic	Aeon, 25 July 2017	Yes
Aeon	Video - The Rashomon effect	Paper - By Subtopic	Aeon, 11 October 2021	Yes
Azzouni (Jody)	Criteria for What Exists	Paper - Cited	Azzoumi - Deflating Existential Consequence: A Case for Nominalism, 2004, Chapter 4	No
Azzouni (Jody)	Deflating Existential Consequence: A Case for Nominalism	Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	2%
Blackburn (Simon)	Quasi-Realism No Fictionalism	Paper - By Subtopic	Mark Eli Kalderon (ed.), Fictionalism in Metaphysics, Chapter 11. OUP. pp. 322-338 (2005)	8%
Boesch (Brandon)	More-than-human science	Paper - Referencing	Aeon, 24 April 2025	Yes
Borges (Jorge Luis)	Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings	Book - Cited	Borges (Jorge Luis) - Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings	3%
Burgess (John P.)	Why I am not a nominalist	Paper - By Subtopic	Notre Dame J. Formal Logic 24(1): 93-105 (January 1983)	No
Byrne (Alex)	Truth In Fiction: The Story Continued	Paper - By Subtopic	Australasian Journal of Philosophy Vol. 71, No. 1; March 1993	No
Cave (Terence)	Fictional Identities	Paper - By Subtopic	Harris - Identity - Essays Based on Herbert Spencer Lectures Given in the University of Oxford	4%
Eagle (Anthony)	Telling Tales	Paper - By Subtopic	Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 2006/7; Draft of December 11, 2006	Yes
Eco (Umberto)	The Name of the Rose	Book - Cited	Eco (Umberto) - The Name of the Rose	Yes
Eklund (Matti)	Fiction, Indifference, and Ontology	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophy and Phenomenological Research Vol. LXXI, No. 3, November 2005	5%
Goldberg (Nathaniel) & Gavaler (Chris)	A dinosaur is a story	Paper - Referencing	Aeon, 21 October 2022	Yes
Goodman (Nelson)	Fact, Fiction and Forecast	Book - Cited	Goodman (Nelson) - Fact, Fiction and Forecast	Yes
Gotlib (Anna)	Main character syndrome	Paper - Referencing	Aeon, 27 September 2024	Yes
Hains (Brigid) & Hains (Paul)	Aeon: Follow-up Boxes	Book - Referencing (via Paper Referencing)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	100%
Hains (Brigid) & Hains (Paul)	Aeon: Q-S	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Hains (Brigid) & Hains (Paul) - Aeon: Q-S	29%
Harris (Henry)	Identity - Essays Based on Herbert Spencer Lectures Given in the University of Oxford	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Harris (Henry) - Identity - Essays Based on Herbert Spencer Lectures Given in the University of Oxford	4%
Joyce (Richard)	Moral Fictionalism	Paper - By Subtopic	Mark Eli Kalderon (ed.), Fictionalism in Metaphysics, Chapter 9. OUP. pp. 287-313 (2005)	4%
Kalderon (Mark Eli)	Fictionalism in Metaphysics: Introduction	Paper - Cited	Mark Eli Kalderon (ed.), Fictionalism in Metaphysics. OUP. pp. 1-13 (2005)	Yes
Kalderon (Mark Eli), Ed.	Fictionalism in Metaphysics	Book - By Subtopic	Kalderon (Mark Eli), Ed. - Fictionalism in Metaphysics	7%
Kim (Seahwa)	Modal Fictionalism and Analysis	Paper - By Subtopic	Mark Eli Kalderon (ed.), Fictionalism in Metaphysics, Chapter 4. OUP. pp. 116-133 (2005)	7%
Kripke (Saul)	Philosophical Troubles: Collected Papers, Volume 1	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Kripke (Saul) - Philosophical Troubles: Collected Papers, Volume 1	2%
Kripke (Saul)	Vacuous Names and Fictional Entities	Paper - By Subtopic	Kripke (Saul) - Philosophical Troubles: Collected Papers, Volume 1	10%
Kroon (Fred)	Belief about Nothing in Particular	Paper - By Subtopic	Mark Eli Kalderon (ed.), Fictionalism in Metaphysics, Chapter 6. OUP. pp. 178-203 (2005)	5%
LePoidevin (Robin)	Religious Fictionalism	Book - By Subtopic	LePoidevin (Robin) - Religious Fictionalism	5%
Lewis (David)	Quasi-Realism is Fictionalism	Paper - By Subtopic	Mark Eli Kalderon (ed.), Fictionalism in Metaphysics, Chapter 10. OUP. pp. 314-321 (2005)	11%
Moore (G.E.), Ryle (Gilbert) & Braithwaite (R.B.)	Symposium: Imaginary Objects	Paper - By Subtopic	Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Volumes, Vol. 12, Creativity, Politics and the A Priori (1933), pp. 18-70	2%
Nolan (Daniel)	Fictionalist Attitudes about Fictional Matters	Paper - By Subtopic	Mark Eli Kalderon (ed.), Fictionalism in Metaphysics, Chapter 7. OUP. pp. 204-233 (2005)	4%
Nolan (Daniel)	Three Problems for 'Strong' Modal Fictionalism	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophical Studies, Vol. 87, No. 3 (Sep., 1997), pp. 259-275	No
Phillips (John F.)	Truth and Inference in Fiction	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophical Studies, Vol. 94, No. 3 (Jun., 1999), pp. 273-293	No
Priest (Graham)	Fiction	Paper - By Subtopic	Priest - Towards Non-Being, 2005, Chapter 6	No
Priest (Graham)	Sylvan's Box: a Short Story and Ten Morals	Paper - By Subtopic	Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic, Volume 38, Number 4, Fall 1997	No
Priest (Graham)	Towards Non-Being	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Priest (Graham) - Towards Non-Being	No
Putnam (Hilary)	Is There a Fact of the Matter About Fiction?	Paper - By Subtopic	Putnam, Conant - Realism with a Human Face	Yes
Putnam (Hilary), Conant (James), Ed.	Realism with a Human Face	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Putnam (Hilary), Conant (James), Ed. - Realism with a Human Face	2%
RIP	The Royal Institute of Philosophy - Podcasts	Paper - Referencing	RIP, Various Dates	18%
Rosen (Gideon)	Problems in the History of Fictionalism	Paper - By Subtopic	Mark Eli Kalderon (ed.), Fictionalism in Metaphysics, Chapter 1. OUP. pp. 14-64 (2005)	2%
Scruton (Roger)	The great swindle	Paper - By Subtopic	Aeon, 17 December, 2012	Yes
Sosa (Ernest) & Kim (Jaegwon), Eds.	Epistemology - An Anthology	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Sosa (Ernest) & Kim (Jaegwon), Eds. - Epistemology - An Anthology	9%
Sutherland (John)	Is Heathcliff a Murderer: Puzzles in 19th-Century Fiction	Book - By Subtopic	Sutherland (John) - Is Heathcliff a Murderer: Puzzles in 19th-Century Fiction	No
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 10 (Thought Experiments)	Paper - Referencing		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Dracula	Paper - Referencing		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Fiction	Paper - By Subtopic		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Personal Identity	Paper - Referencing		Yes
Van Inwagen (Peter)	Creatures of Fiction	Paper - By Subtopic	Van Inwagen - Ontology, Identity and Modality, Part I: Ontology, Chapter 3, 1977	6%
Van Inwagen (Peter)	Existence, Ontological Commitment and Fictional Entities	Paper - By Subtopic	M. J. Loux and D.W. Zimmerman, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Metaphysics (OUP, 2003)	8%
Van Inwagen (Peter)	Materialism and the Psychological-continuity Account of Personal Identity	Paper - Referencing	Van Inwagen - Ontology, Identity and Modality, Part II: Identity, Chapter 9, 1997	Yes
Van Inwagen (Peter)	Ontology, Identity and Modality: Essays in metaphysics	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Van Inwagen (Peter) - Ontology, Identity and Modality: Essays in metaphysics	17%
Van Inwagen (Peter)	Ontology, Identity and Modality: Essays in metaphysics	Book - Referencing (via Paper Referencing)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	17%
Walton (Kendall L.)	Metaphor and Prop Oriented Make-Believe	Paper - By Subtopic	Mark Eli Kalderon (ed.), Fictionalism in Metaphysics, Chapter 2. OUP. pp. 65-87 (2005)	5%
Williams (Christopher)	Being, Identity, and Truth	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Williams (Christopher) - Being, Identity, and Truth	7%
Williams (Christopher)	Death and Other Difficulties	Paper - By Subtopic	Williams (Christopher) - Being, Identity, and Truth, Chapter 2	13%
Williams (Rowan)	Dostoevsky: Language, Faith and Fiction	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Williams (Rowan) - Dostoevsky: Language, Faith and Fiction	2%
Williams (Rowan)	Dostoevsky: Language, Faith and Fiction	Paper - By Subtopic	Williams (Rowan) - Dostoevsky: Language, Faith and Fiction	4%
Woodbridge (James A.)	Truth as a Pretense	Paper - By Subtopic	Mark Eli Kalderon (ed.), Fictionalism in Metaphysics, Chapter 5. OUP. pp. 134-177 (2005)	3%
Yablo (Stephen)	Go Figure: A Path through Fictionalism	Paper - By Subtopic	Midwest Studies In Philosophy; 2001, Vol. 25 Issue 1, p72, 32p	4%
Yablo (Stephen)	Say Holmes Exists; Then What?	Paper - By Subtopic	Draft of 1st September 2020	25%
Yablo (Stephen)	The Myth of the Seven	Paper - By Subtopic	Mark Eli Kalderon (ed.), Fictionalism in Metaphysics, Chapter 3. OUP. pp. 88-115 (2005)	4%

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