Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Tableopen access
- Authors
- Lee, J.[Lee, Jeonggyu]
- Issue Date
- Aug-2023
- Publisher
- Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
- Keywords
- abstract artifact; concrete artifact; fictional creationism; fictional objects; functions; intentions; mind-dependence
- Citation
- Philosophies, v.8, no.4
- Indexed
- SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- Philosophies
- Volume
- 8
- Number
- 4
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/skku/handle/2021.sw.skku/108100
- DOI
- 10.3390/philosophies8040067
- ISSN
- 2409-9287
- Abstract
- The primary aim of this paper is to provide a plausible fictional creationist explanation of when and how a fictional object comes into existence without a successful creative intention, focusing on the problem posed by Stuart Brock’s nominalist author scenario. I first present some intuitions about parallel scenarios for fictional objects and concrete artifacts as data to be explained. Then I provide a sufficient condition for the existence of artifacts that can explain both cases. An important upshot of this is that there is an overlooked way to bring artifacts into existence that should merit serious consideration, and this leads to a version of the mind-dependence, but not the intention-dependence, view of artifacts. © 2023 by the author.
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