BOURNE&CADDICKBOURNE
CRAIG
EMILY
Selected papers relating to fiction
2022
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'Elusive Fictional Truth', British Journal of Aesthetics (2022), 62: 15-31 (Bourne and Caddick Bourne)
2019
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'Players, Characters, and the Gamer's Dilemma', Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism (2019), 77: 133-143 (Bourne and Caddick Bourne)
2018
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'Personification without Impossible Content', British Journal of Aesthetics (2018), 58: 165-179 (Bourne and Caddick Bourne) [abstract]
2017
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'Explanation and Quasi-Miracles in Narrative Understanding: The Case of Poetic Justice' dialectica (2017), 71: 563-579 (Bourne and Caddick Bourne) [abstract]
2016
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‘Narrative Normativity: Four Routes to Redemption’, in Z.Hadromi-Allouche & A.Larkin (eds.) Fall Narratives (Routledge, 2016), 215-226 (Bourne and Caddick Bourne) [abstract]
2014
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‘ZAMM and the Art of Philosophical Fiction’, Special Issue on Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, A Retrospective Roundtable, Forty Years Down the Road, International Journal of Motorcycle Studies, 10: Fall 2014 (Bourne and Caddick Bourne) [abstract]
2013
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‘Fictional Branching Time?’, in A.Iacona & F.Correia (eds.) Around the Tree: Semantic and Metaphysical Issues Concerning Branching and the Open Future (Springer: Synthese library no.361) (2013), 81-94. (Bourne and Caddick Bourne) (see Chapter 5 of Time in Fiction)
Elusive Fictional Truth
By Bourne & Caddick Bourne
We argue that some fictional truths are fictionally true by default. We also argue that these fictional truths are subject to being undermined. We propose that the context within which we are to evaluate what is fictionally true changes when a possibility which was previously ignorable is brought to attention. We argue that these cases support a model of fictional truth which makes the conversational dynamics of determining truth in fiction structurally akin to the conversational dynamics of knowledge-ascription, as this is understood by David Lewis’s contextualist approach to knowledge. We show how a number of the rules which Lewis proposes for the case of knowledge-ascription can be employed to develop a novel and powerful framework for the case of truth in fiction.