Worshop on Reference and Fiction

Date: June 4-5, 2013

Venue: SADAF

Organizing committee:

Talks

June 4

• Jenni Tyynelä (University of Tampere), “Fictional Characters as Abstract Objects – Some Problems”
• Eleonora Orlando (University of Buenos Aires), “Fiction and Ontological Commitment: a Defense of Abstractism”
• Michael Devitt (City University of New York, Graduate Center), “Should There Still Be a Problem about the Meaning of Proper Names?”

June 5

• Ramiro Caso (University of Buenos Aires), “Fictionalism about Fictional Entities”
• Alba Massolo (University of Córdoba), “Inference and Logical Consequence in Fiction”
• Saul Kripke (City University of New York, Graduate Center), “Reference and Existence”