Beyond Necessity

In my last post, I mentioned two fundamental differences between the account of fiction I have defended here, and the account given by Pete...

I read Creatures of Fiction * more carefully over the break, and I now see I have fundamentally misunderstood Inwagen's position. I had ...

Thanks to the link that Peter van Inwagen sent, I was able to look at his paper “ Creatures of Fiction ”* which has a much clearer explanati...

Peter writes to me to say that a lot of his papers are online here .  His most comprehensive paper on fictional entities is in "Existen...

I had a brief correspondence with Van Inwagen earlier this week, but he came up with nothing that resolved some of my other puzzles about hi...

There is a nice preprint of a paper here by Inwagen where he discusses different theories of being, and particularly the 'neo-Meinongia...

David Brightly asks whether there is really any problem with Van Inwagen’s position that Sherlock Holmes ‘holds’ the property of being a de...

Earlier I discussed Peter van Inwagen's view of quantification in fiction. Van Inwagen holds that the existential quantifier expresses ...

To explain the apparent paradox of the title, there are at least two senses of the term ‘Meinongian’. In the first sense, a Meinongian affir...