Document Type
Post-Print
Publication Date
8-2007
Abstract
I discuss Gregory Currie’s taxonomy of explanations of the fictional. On the one hand, there is an important kind of relation between internal and external explanations of some fictional truths that Currie leaves out, where both are salient and yet in a relation of harmony with each other. On the other hand, I do not see that he has established that there is a genuine relation of tension between some pairs of internal and external explanations, and thus I question the usefulness of the category of collapse. I also consider a further kind of explanation: the exterior explanation.
Identifier
10.1007/s11098-007-9093-0
Publisher
Springer
Repository Citation
Kania, A. (2007). Worlds are colliding! Explaining the fictional in terms of the real. Philosophical Studies, 135(1), 65-71. doi:10.1007/s11098-007-9093-0
Publication Information
Philosophical Studies