Where is Sherlock Holmes?

Southern Journal of Philosophy

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 183-197

  Goodman, Jeffrey ^a  

^a JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 60949319417     PISSN: 00384283     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.2041-6962.2003.tb00948.x     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. Nathan Salmon, "Nonexistence," Nous 32:3 (1998): 277-319;
2. Peter van Inwagen, "Creatures of Fiction," American Philosophical Quarterly 14:4 (1977): 299-308;
3. Amie Thomasson, Fiction and Metaphysics (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999);
4. Terence Parsons, Nonexistent Objects (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1980);
5. Edward Zalta, Abstract Objects (The Netherlands: Reidel, 1983);
6. Alvin Plantinga, The Nature of Necessity (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1974);
7. David Lewis, "Truth in Fiction," American Philosophical Quarterly 15:1 (1978): 37-46.
8. Thomasson, "Fiction, Modality, and Dependent Abstracta," Philosophical Studies 84:2-3 (1996): 295-320.
9. W. V. O. Quine "On What There Is," in From a Logical Point of View (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1953),
10. Bertrand Russell "On Denoting," in The Philosophy of Language, ed. by A. P. Martinich, 2nd edition (New York: Oxford University Press, 1990).
11. Lewis, "Truth in Fiction." Saul Kripke tries on Modalism, and later rejects the view, in his Naming and Necessity, (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1972).
12. Parsons, Nonexistent Objects. The classical view can be found in Uber Moglichkeit und Wahrscheinlichkeit, in Alexius Meinong Gesamtausgabe, volume 6, ed. by Roderick Chisholm (Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck u. Verlagsanstalt, 1972).
13. See, e.g., Thomasson, Fiction and Metaphysics, Parsons, Nonexistent Objects,
14. For a fuller discussion, see Thomasson, Fiction and Metaphysics, chapter 1.
15. Kripke, Reference and Existence: The John Locke Lectures for 1973 [Oxford University Press, unpublished].
16. John Burgess and Gideon Rosen, A Subject with No Object: Strategies for Nominalistic Interpretation of Mathematics (New York: Clarendon Press, 1997), I.A.i.b., 21-2.