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Worlds Without End: A Platonist Theory Of Fiction, Patrick Grafton-Cardwell
Worlds Without End: A Platonist Theory Of Fiction, Patrick Grafton-Cardwell
Doctoral Dissertations
I first ask what it is to make up a story. In order to answer that question, I give existence and identity conditions for stories. I argue that a story exists whenever there is some narrative content that has intentionally been made accessible. I argue that stories are abstract types, individuated by the conditions that must be met by something in order to be a properly formed token of the type. However, I also argue that the truth of our story identity attributions---sentences like, "Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings is the same story as JRR Tolkien's Lord of the …