Unreality: The Metaphysics of Fictional Objects

1. REFERENCE AND NONEXISTENCE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
Solutions and Strategies
Elimination by Paraphrase: The Theory of Descriptions
2. REFERENCE AND FICTION
Reference as Identification
Objects and Existence
Is Reference to Nonexistent Objects Only Pretended? Searle, Walton, and Evans
3. THE UNREALITY OF FICTIONS
Objects and the Structure of Reference
Frameworks and Types of Object
Fictions as a Conceptual Type
Fictions as Unreal
Kripke on Fictions as Nonexistent
Objections and Replies
Is Ordinary Thought Meinongian?
4. FICTIONAL DISCOURSE
The Origins of Nonexistent Objects: Storytelling
Constructing, Reporting, and Commenting on Fiction
Two Puzzling Cases
5. ALTERNATIVE REFERENTIAL THEORIES OF FICTION
van Inwagen: Fictions as Theoretical Entities
Parsons\'s Quinean Meinongianism and the Methodology of Nonexistence
Are There Really Nonexistent Objects?
6. REAL THINGS IN FICTION, LOGICAL COMPLETENESS, AND OTHER FORMS OF REPRESENTATION
Are Stories About Real Things?
Are Fictional Characters Logically Complete?
Objects in Myths, Dreams, and Nonrealistic Fiction
7. IS EVERYTHING FICTITIOUS?
How Do I Know That I Am Not a Fictional Character?
Everything Is Fictional: The Metaphysical Thesis
Ethical Attitudes Toward Reality as a Construct