In this work I reply to Zoltán Vecsey’s criticisms of the semantic account of fictional names I put forward in Orlando (2017). The main tenet of that proposal is that fictional names refer to individual concepts, which I ...

The main thesis I want to defend in this essay is that a fictional name refers to an individual concept, understood as a mental file that stores information, in the form of different descriptive concepts, about a purported ...

This paper aims to explain some contextual features of the Novela Negra in Chile and Argentina as part of the detective fiction in the period of post-dictatorship. Then, it will try to accent some nuances of difference ...

This paper is concerned with the status of mathematical fictions in Leibniz’s work and especially with infinitary quantities as fictions. Thus, it is maintained that mathematical fictions constitute a kind of symbolic ...

The rise of television drama in the late nineties challenged comedy as the most popular and resilient genre of fiction. The diversity of themes and growing complexity of new narratives have relegated family representations ...

Cybernetics, in the world nowadays, awakens some conceptual formulations about men and the artificial technological reality that transports them to a world of superhuman conditions, a fictional world. In this world, ...