Alberto VOLTOLINI

Professor, Department of Philosophy and Education Sciences, University of Turin

alberto.voltolini@unito.it

Field : Philosophy

Research areas : Philosophy of Language and Mind, Aesthetics

Keywords: intentionality, perception, fiction, depiction, Wittgenstein

Relevant publications

How Ficta Follow Fiction. A Syncretistic Account of Fictional Entities, Springer, Dordrecht 2006

Finzioni, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2010

“Ficta versus Possibilia”, Grazer Philosophische Studien 48 (1994), 75-104.

“Fiction as a Base of Interpretation Contexts”, Synthese 153 (2006), 23-47.

“Names for Ficta, for Intentionalia, and for Nothing”, in M.J. Frapolli (ed.), Saying, Meaning and Referring: Essays on François Recanati’s Philosophy of Language, Palgrave Mcmillan, Houndmills, 2007, 183-197.

“The Seven Consequences of Creationism”, Metaphysica 10 (2009), 27-48.

“How Ficta Follow Fiction: a Prècis”, Dialectica 63 (2009), 51-55.

“How Ficta Follow Fiction: Reply to Commentators”, Dialectica 63 (2009), 75-84.

(with Cristina Meini) “How Pretence Can Really Be Metarepresentational”, Mind and Society 9 (2010), 31-58.

“Against Against Fictional Realism”, Grazer Philosophische Studien 80 (2010), 47-63.

“How Do I Know That I Am Not a Fictional Character”, P. Koťátko, M. Pokornŷ, M. Sabatés (eds.), Fictionality, Possibility, Reality, Aleph, Bratislava 2010, 42-55.

“Fiction” (with Fred Kroon), in E. Zalta (ed.), The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, http://plato.stanford.edu/, 2011.

“How Creationism Supports for Kripke’s Vichianism on Fiction”, in F. Lihoreau (ed.), Truth in Fiction, Ontos Verlag, Munich 2011, 93-106.

“Defiction?”, in C. Barbero, M. Ferraris, A. Voltolini (eds.), From Fictionalism to Realism, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne, 2013, 43-61.

“Probably the Charterhouse of Parma does not exist, possibly not even that Parma”, Humana Mente 25 (2013), 235-261.

“A Syncretistic Ontology of Fictional Beings” in T. Koblizek, P. Kotatko and M. Pokorny (eds.), Text + Work: The Menard Case, Litteraria Pragensia, Prague 2013, 89-108.

“Contexts, Fiction, and Truth”, in Capone, A., Lo Piparo, F., Carapezza, M. (eds.), Perspectives on Pragmatics and Philosophy, Springer, Dordrecht 2013, 489-500.

“Fiction and Indexinames”, Journal of Literary Theory 8 (2014), 292-321.

“A Suitable Metaphysics for Fictional Entities”, in S. Brock & A. Everett (eds.), Fictional Characters, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2015, 129-146.

“The Nature of Fiction/al Utterances”, Kairos 17 (2016), 28-55.