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Sainsbury on Thinking about an Object

Critica 40 (120):85-95 (2008)

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  1. Grounding Fiction.Tatjana von Solodkoff - 2011 - Dissertation, University of Sheffield
    This thesis aims to bring methodological issues in the debate about the nature of fictional characters to the fore. I show how the arguments fictional realists have offered in favour of their views rely on crucial ‘metaontological’ assumptions about what ontological questions are and how they should be answered. In addition to casting doubt on some of the more orthodox approaches to ontological inquiry, my positive goal is to deploy an independently motivated metaontology to defend a novel version of fictional (...)
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  • No Reference Without Referents.Eduardo Garcia Ramírez - 2016 - Revista de Filosofía (Madrid) 41 (2):211-226.
    Sainsbury 2005 and 2009 offers a theory of empty names that purports to account for the content and truth-value of all utterances involving them. The goal is to do this while offering a homogenous semantic treatment: both empty and nonempty names make the same kind of contribution to truth-values. The account is based on a new theory of reference that purports to be an alternative among nondescriptivist accounts. According to the new theory, there is reference even without referents. In this (...)
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