1st Edition
Thinking about Stories An Introduction to Philosophy of Fiction
Introduction
1. What is Fiction?
2. What is a work of Fiction?
3. What are Fictional Characters?
4. Do Fictional Character Really Exist?
5. Imagination and Fiction
6. Interpreting Fiction
7. "Can someone tell me what’s happening?" Narrators and Cinematic Presenters
8. Why are you Crying?
9. The Paradox of Tragedy
10. "Can you Imagine?!" The Puzzle of Imaginative Struggles
11. What Can we Learn from Fiction?
12. Are you Fictional?
Biography
Samuel Lebens is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Haifa. He works on a wide variety of philosophical topics, including metaphysics, epistemology, the philosophy of literature, and the philosophy of religion. Recent books include The Principles of Judaism (Oxford UP, 2020) and Philosophy of Religion: The Basics (Routledge, 2022).
Tatjana von Solodkoff is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at University College Dublin in Ireland. Tatjana thinks and writes about fiction, ontology, the methods of metaphysics, and death.
