14 Oct
2015
14 Oct
'15
7:43 a.m.
The CEU Department of Philosophy cordially invites you to a talk
(as part of its Departmental Colloquium series)
by
Lee Walters (University of Southampton)
on
Fictional Names
Tuesday, 20 October 2015, 5.30 PM, Zrinyi 14, Room 412
ABSTRACT
Our discourse about fiction seems to pull us different directions. On the one hand,
Sherlock Holmes does not exist, on the other he was created by Conan Doyle. I argue that
the best approach is to admit that fictional names are ambiguous having both a referring
and non-referring use. I motivate and defend this proposal by looking at other cases of
metonymic transfer.
Krisztina Biber
Department of Philosophy
Coordinator
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