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On the Nature of Fiction-Making: Grice or Austin?
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Only Imagine is a wonderful book. Clear and tersely written, it provides a compelling defence of a rather unpopular view (indeed, one usually dismissed without serious appraisal as a non-contender): namely, extreme intentionalism about the determination of fictional content and the nature of fictionality. It thus unquestionably advances the philosophical debate. It is also a pleasure to read for those of us who like fictions and not just the philosophy thereof: Stock discusses for her arguments many examples from real fictions, systematically making perceptive remarks. Here I will respond to an objection that she makes to the normative account that I have defended in previous work, arguing that it has explanatory advantages grounded on the subordination on that account of author-intentions to fictional contents independently determined by social practices.
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GARCÍA-CARPINTERO, Manuel. On the Nature of Fiction-Making: Grice or Austin?. British Journal of Aesthetics. 2019. Vol. 59, num. 2, pags. 203-210. ISSN 0007-0904. [consulted: 11 of June of 2026]. Available at: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/153583