TY - BOOK AU - Barbero,Carola AU - Ferraris,Maurizio AU - Voltolini,Alberto TI - From Fictionalism to Realism SN - 9781443846493 AV - BD331 U1 - 111 PY - 2013/// CY - Newcastle upon Tyne PB - Cambridge Scholars Publishing KW - Ontology KW - Realism KW - Reality KW - Fictions, Theory of KW - Ontologie KW - Réalisme KW - Réalité KW - Théorie de la fiction KW - ontology (metaphysics) KW - aat KW - Fiction & related items KW - bicssc KW - Society & social sciences KW - Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology KW - PHILOSOPHY KW - Metaphysics KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references; TABLE OF CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT N2 - In ontology, realism and anti-realism may be taken as opposite attitudes towards entities of different kinds, so that one may turn out to be a realist with respect to certain entities, and an anti-realist with respect to others. In this book, the editors focus on this controversy concerning social entities in general and fictional entities in particular, the latter often being considered nowadays as kinds of social entities. More specifically, fictionalists (those who maintain that we only ma UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=553359 ER -