edited by Manuel García-Carpintero and Genoveva Martí.
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Oxford :
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Oxford University Press,
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2014.
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1 online resource (vi, 359 pages)
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Cover; Empty Representations; Copyright; Contents; List of Contributors; Introduction: The Problem of Empty Representations; Part I. Foundational Matters: Singular Thoughts and their Attribution; 1. Transparency and the Context-Sensitivity of Attitude Reports; 2. Two Dogmas of Russellianism; 3. Intersubjective Intentional Identity; Part II. Accounts of Empty Representations; 4. Vulcan Might Have Existed, and Neptune Not: On the Semantics of Empty Names; 5. Content Relativism and the Problem of Empty Names; 6. Empty Singular Terms in the Mental File Framework
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7. The Things we Do with Empty Names: Objectual Representations, Non-Veridical Language Games, and Truth Similitude8. A Practical Solution to the Problem of Empty Singular Thought; Part III. Existence and Non-Existence; 9. What is Existence?; 10. The Problem of Negative Existentials Inadvertently Solved; Part IV. Fiction; 11. Fictional Worlds and Fiction Operators; 12. Many, But Almost Holmes?; 13. Notions of Nothing; 14. Fictional Realism and Negative Existentials; Index
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The contents of linguistic and mental representations may seem to be individuated by what they are about. But a problem arises with regard to representation of the non-existent - words and thoughts that are about things that don't exist. Fourteen new essays get to grips with this much-debated problem.