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This is a contribution to the symposium on Tim Scanlon's Being Realistic about Reasons (2014). We have two aims here: First, we ask for more details about Scanlon's meta-metaphysical view (about his notion of a domain, his criterion of... more
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      MetaethicsMetaontologyMoral RealismPhilosophical Methodology
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      TruthFictionalismPartial TruthAboutness
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      EntrepreneurshipEvolutionary PsychologyProperty RightsTaxation
Here, I follow one of the more exciting and under-explored consequences of grounding media as metaphor - the (not so) sudden compatibility of media ecology with the claim that fictional objects are real. This paper explores what... more
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      Media StudiesMedia and Cultural StudiesMedia EcologyMedia Theory
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      PhilosophyMetaphysicsPhilosophy Of MathematicsFictionalism
This paper explores a few of the ways that the Zhuang-Zi can inform contemporary analytic epistemology. I begin, in section 1, by briefly outlining and summarizing the case for my fictionalist interpretation of the text. In section 2, I... more
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      EpistemologyComparative PhilosophyZhuangziSkepticism
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      Meta-EthicsFriedrich NietzscheFictionalism
Apophaticism - the view that God is both indescribable and inconceivable - is one of the great medieval traditions of philosophical thought about God, but it is largely overlooked by analytic philosophers of religion. This paper attempts... more
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      Philosophy Of ReligionGregory of NyssaPseudo-DionysiusApophaticism
At the beginning of the twentieth century, theorists developed approaches to Nietzsche’s philosophy that provided an alternative to the received view, some of them suggesting that his view of truth may be his most important and original... more
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      PhilosophyEpistemologyContinental PhilosophyRealism (Philosophy)
Hans-Hermann Hoppe contends that the fact that a person has the capacity to argue entails that she has the moral right of exclusive control over her own body. Critics of Hoppe’s argument do not appear to have pinpointed its flaws. I... more
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      Discourse AnalysisPolitical PhilosophyRhetoricHuman Rights
Ontology and Metaontology: A Contemporary Guide is a clear and accessible survey of ontology, focussing on the most recent trends in the discipline. Divided into parts, the first half characterizes metaontology: the discourse on the... more
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      MetaphysicsOntologyPhilosophy Of MathematicsStates of Affairs, Facts, Propositions
Artykuły naukowe Tolkien w oczach mediewisty Thomas Honegger Tolkien i wikingowie. Czyli o związkach J. R. R. Tolkiena z wiktoriańską literaturą na temat Północy Michał Leśniewski Z Prus do Anglii. Saga rodziny J. R. R.... more
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      Critical TheoryBritish LiteratureHistoryCultural History
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      Artificial IntelligenceMusical CompositionCreativityEmbodied Cognition
An introductory study for Romano-Arabica XVII (2017): Fictional Beings in Middle East Cultures, featuring the legend of Shahmeran (Turkey).
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      Middle East StudiesMiddle East & North AfricaMiddle East HistoryKurdish Studies
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      MetaphysicsOntologyPhilosophy Of LanguagePhilosophy of Science
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      Legal positivismHans KelsenFictionalism
Wprowadzenie do książki "Narracje fantastyczne", opisujące kulisy zwrotu światocentrycznego w badaniach teoretycznoliterackich nad fantastyką i jego konsekwencje dla szeroko pojętych studiów światotwórczych
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      Comparative LiteraturePhilosophyEnglish LiteratureDystopian Literature
This paper takes its motivation from investigations on the influence Kant’s reflections on meta-philosophy, more precisely, his discussions of the possibility of developing a scientific method for philosophy. My broad claim is that Kant... more
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      MetaphilosophySalomon MaimonScientific ModelsImmanuel Kant
In this extended essay, I trace the nature and origin of Nietzsche's eventual disagreement with Schopenhauer, arguing that its seed was Nietzsche's early discovery of a performative contradiction between his spiritual mentor's actions as... more
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      PhilosophyGreek TragedyArt HistoryFriedrich Nietzsche
The paper aims to develop and put into operation the concepts of metafiction, transfictionality and possible worlds, particularly fictional worlds. The analysis is placed within the context of fictional studies, discussing the status of... more
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      Jorge Luis BorgesPossible World SemanticsMetafictionPossible Worlds
Książka "Narracje fantastyczne" pod wspólną redakcją Kseni Olkusz i Krzysztofa M. Ma­ja jest piątym tomem serii „Perspektywy Ponowoczesności”, zbierającym na blis­ko siedmiuset stronach trzydzieści tekstów nau­kowych rozpatrujących... more
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      Critical TheoryCultural StudiesComparative LiteraturePhilosophy
Review of "Fictionalism in Philosophy" edited by Bradley Armour-Garb and Frederick Kroon.
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      PhilosophyMetaphysicsPhilosophy Of LanguageBook Reviews
The quest to provide a fundamental understanding and explanation of reality is an ambitious one. Perhaps it is too ambitious. The possible restrictions for such an enterprise to be successful must be inquired in order to determine the... more
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      History of Science and TechnologyPhysicsTheoretical PhysicsQuantum Physics
David Foster Wallace was genuinely troubled by what he perceived to be a serious incongruity in the mental lives of elite athletes. To perform with grace and beauty, elite athletes must be ‘geniuses,’ yet in conversation and prose these... more
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      ExpertisePlatoStoicismTennis
"Fors'anche dovrei predicare da me a me ciò ch'ella mi dice nella sua lettera: c'est dommage que vous êtes sorti du sentier de la raison, et que vous divaguez dans l'espace imaginaire. Ma spesso, la ragione non è che immaginazione, e la... more
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This chapter argues that mental fictionalism can only be a successful account of our ordinary folk-psychological practices if it can in some way preserve its original function, namely its explanatory aspect. A too strong commitment to the... more
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      Philosophy of MindExplanationMetaphorsFictionalism
A fiktív karakterek ontológiájával kapcsolatban gyakran felmerülő álláspont az absztrakt artefaktum elmélet (vagy absztrakt artefaktualizmus), amely szerint a Sherlock Holmeshoz és Harry Potterhez hasonló fiktív karakterek az aktuális... more
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      MetaphysicsPhilosophy Of LanguageFictionalismModal Fictionalism
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      MetaphysicsOntologyMeta-OntologyMetaontology
We want to say both that Sherlock Holmes does not exist, and that he is a fictional character. But how can we say these things without committing ourselves to the existence of Sherlock Holmes? Here I develop and defend a non-committal... more
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      Modal ActualismFictionalismNonexistent ObjectsFictional Characters
Seit einigen Jahren ist der so genannte moralische Fiktionalismus (im folgenden kurz: „Fiktionalismus“) in den Fokus der Debatte um ethische Theoriebildung gerückt. Genau betrachtet gibt es allerdings nicht den Fiktionalismus, sondern... more
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      MetaethicsMoral PhilosophyFictionalismHans Vaihinger
In a calculation involving imaginary numbers, we begin with real numbers that represent concrete measures and we end up with numbers that are equally real, but in the course of the operation we find ourselves walking “as if on a bridge... more
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      Robert MusilLiterature and PhilosophyContemporary bildungsromanIrrationality
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      SemanticsMetaphorProper NamesConditionals (Philosophy)
What should the Buddhist attitude be to rebirth if it is believed to be inconsistent with current science? This chapter critically engages forms of Buddhist agnosticism that adopt a position of uncertainty about rebirth but nevertheless... more
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      BuddhismPragmatismPersonhoodAgnosticism
The relationship between God and abstract objects has seen something of a renaissance in philosophical and theological circles of late. The age-old debate surrounding the existence and nature of universals has found a new, perhaps even... more
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      MetaphysicsPhilosophy Of ReligionFictionalism
'Realistic Fictionalism' argues for two main claims: First, that there is no conceptual or logical incoherence in the idea of a fictionalist theory of some discourse which accommodates a form of realism about that discourse (a claim which... more
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Oswald Spengler is best known as a philosopher of history. However, one can trace in volume one of his The Decline of the West a sustained consideration of philosophical issues pertaining to the nature and practice of science that I... more
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      Philosophy of ScienceOswald SpenglerFictionalismHans Vaihinger
To what degree does metafiction construct and deconstruct worlds? More specifically, to what degree does metafiction succeed in constructing a verisimilar possible world or, on the contrary, undress it of materiality and the illusion of... more
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      James JoycePoststructuralismDeconstructionPossible World Semantics
In a note to G.R.S. Mead's "Quests Old and New", where he found a section devoted to Hans Vaihinger's ideas, Fernando Pessoa reflects on the consequences of the fictionalist approach to both our perception of the I and the value of... more
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      PhilosophyPortuguese StudiesLiteratureFriedrich Nietzsche
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      PhilosophyMetaphysicsPhilosophy Of MathematicsFictionalism
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      KantPhilosophy Of MathematicsNeo-KantianismFictionalism
According to what has long been the dominant school of thought in analytic meta-ontology––defended not only by W. V. O. Quine, but also by Bertrand Russell, Alvin Plantinga, Peter van Inwagen, and many others––the meaning of ‘there is’ is... more
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      MetaphysicsOntologyMeta-OntologyBertrand Russell
Nietzsche’s favourable comments about science and the senses have recently been taken as evidence of naturalism. Others focus on his falsification thesis: our beliefs are falsifying interpretations of reality. Clark argues that Nietzsche... more
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      EmpiricismFriedrich NietzscheNietzscheNaturalism
I explore some of the reasons why, under specific circumstances, it may be rational to make-believe or imagine that certain religious beliefs are true. Adopting a jargon familiar to certain contemporary philosophers, my main concern here... more
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      AtheismImaginationSacred ArtReligious Studies
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      Philosophy of the EmotionsFictionalityImaginationBeliefs
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      AestheticsZhuangziSkepticismFictionalism
In a note to G.R.S. Mead’s "Quests Old and New", where he found a section devoted to Hans Vaihinger’s main ideas, Fernando Pessoa reflects on the consequences of the fictionalist approach to both our perception of the I and the value of... more
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      PsychologyPortuguese and Brazilian LiteraturePhilosophyAesthetics
This paper surveys contemporary accounts of error theory and fictionalism. It introduces these categories to those new to metaethics by beginning with moral nihilism, the view that nothing really is right or wrong. One main motivation is... more
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      Meta-EthicsNihilismMetaethicsNormative Error Theory
During his late period, Nietzsche is particularly concerned with the value that mankind attributes to truth. In dealing with that topic, Nietzsche is not primarly interested in the metaphysical disputes on truth, but rather in the effects... more
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      PhilosophyEpistemologyContinental PhilosophyTruth