Research Project

Project title

Logic, epistemology and metaphysics of fiction

Project description

Fiction is usually understood to be about the nonexistent. Nonetheless, we can speak about fictional characters and, ipso facto, about the non-existence. Moreover, we can do so despite the fact that at least some fictions violate the fundamental laws of logic. This project addresses the logical, epistemological and metaphysical implications of the phenomenon and proposes a unified theory of fiction. The main hypothesis of the project is: since fictions violate at least some principles of classical logic, one needs to venture beyond classical logic to address philosophical issues pertaining to fiction. The standard way to do so is to employ some hyperintensional frameworks, mainly impossible worlds approach and structuralist approach (see Jago M., The Impossible: An Essay on Hyperintensionality, 2014; Duží, M., Jespersen, B., and Materna, P., Procedural Semantics for Hyperintensional Logic, 2010). Since the project connects the problems of logic, philosophy and aesthetics, it has interdisciplinary character.

Contact

Institute of Philosophy SAS, v.v.i.
Klemensova 19
811 09 Bratislava 1
Slovak Republic
Tel.: +4212 5292 1215
E-mail: sekretariat.fiu@savba.sk
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Address for correspondence:

Filozofický ústav SAV, v. v. i.
P. O. Box 3364
813 64 Bratislava
Slovak Republic

Journal Filozofia

Institute of Philosophy SAS, v.v.i.
Filozofia Editorial Office
Klemensova 19
811 09 Bratislava 1
Slovak Republic
Tel.: +4212 5292 1215
E-mail: redakcia.filozofia@savba.sk
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Address for correspondence:

Filozofický ústav SAV, v. v. i.
Filozofia Editorial Office
P. O. Box 3364
813 64 Bratislava
Slovak Republic

Journal Organon F

Institute of Philosophy SAS, v.v.i.
Organon F Editorial Office
Klemensova 19
811 09 Bratislava 1
Slovak Republic
Tel.: +4212 5292 1215
E-mail: organonf@gmail.com
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Address for correspondence:

Filozofický ústav SAV, v. v. i.
Organon F Editorial Office
P. O. Box 3364
813 64 Bratislava
Slovak Republic