III International Colloquium on the Metaphysics and Semantics of Fiction
Conferences and contributed papers:
(All times are GMT-3, BRT)
Wednesday, June 24
10:00 - 11:30
Manuel García-Carpintero
(Universitat de Barcelona, Spain)
A Deflationary View of the Fictive Imagination
13:30 - 14:00
Erik Wöller
(Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)
Illocutionary Pluralism about Fiction
14:00 - 14:30
Heidi Erika Savage
(Independent Scholar, United States)
The Real Problem of Fictional Names: Complications with Analyses of Simple Subject Predicate Sentences
14:30 - 15:00
Jerzy André Brzozowski
(Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil)
Singular Thoughts about Fictional Characters: Towards an Institutional–Artifactualist Approach
15:30 - 17:00
Sara Uckelman
(Durham University, United Kingdom)
Parasocial Relationships and Fictionality
Thursday, June 25
08:00 - 08:30
Gabriel Andersen Eugênio
(Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil)
Quadrinistic and Quadrinizing in the Debate on the Philosophy of Fiction
08:30 - 09:00
Ariston Sócrates Guimarães Soares Cruz
(Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
The role of imagination in film interpretation
09:00 - 09:30
Iago Mello Batistela
(Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil)
Creating with creative imagination
10:00 - 11:30
Andreas Stokke
(Uppsala Universitet, Sweden)
Empty Names and Indeterminate Dubbings
13:30 - 14:00
Enrique Aranda-Murillo
(University of Granada, Spain)
Grounding Fictional Entities
14:00 - 14:30
Louis Rouillé
(Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal)
Counterfictional uchronia as a test case for fictionality
14:30 - 15:00
Italo Lins Lemos
(Universidade Federal do Cariri, Brazil)
Against extreme intentionalism
15:30 - 17:00
Merel Semeijn
(Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Netherlands)
Snape kills Dumbledore (but Dumbledore is not dead): States and events in reports on fictional truth
Friday, June 26
08:30 - 09:00
Cristiano Vicente Ferreira
(Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil)
Russell e o Problema dos Inexistentes
09:00 - 09:30
Igor Ferreira e Mello Batista
(Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil)
A criação de sentido na ficção científica: metáfora ou materialidade?
10:00 - 11:30
Elisa Paganini
(Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy)
Reference Without Commitment: Access and Content in Fiction
13:30 - 14:00
Renato Semaniuc Valvassori
(Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil)
Fictionality and Pro-Wrestling
14:00 - 14:30
Pedro Rapallo Zubillaga
(Saint Louis University, United States)
A Realist Argument against the Constructivist Theory of Fictional Objects
14:30 - 15:00
Thomas Matthews
(University of Manitoba, Canada)
Could Holmes Be Superman? Modal Meinongianism and The Temporal Unfoldings of Stories
15:30 - 17:00
Edward Zalta
(Stanford University, United States)
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