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Revising Fiction, Fact, and Faith - A Philosophical Account (Paperback)
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Revising Fiction, Fact, and Faith - A Philosophical Account (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
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This book addresses how our revisionary practices account for
relations between texts and how they are read. It offers an
overarching philosophy of revision concerning works of fiction,
fact, and faith, revealing unexpected insights about the philosophy
of language, the metaphysics of fact and fiction, and the history
and philosophy of science and religion. Using the novels of J.R.R.
Tolkien as exemplars, the authors introduce a fundamental
distinction between the purely physical and the linguistic aspects
of texts. They then demonstrate how two competing theories of
reference-descriptivism and referentialism-are instead constitutive
of a single semantic account needed to explain all kinds of
revision. The authors also propose their own metaphysical
foundations of fiction and fact. The next part of the book brings
the authors' philosophy of revision into dialogue with Thomas
Kuhn's famous analysis of factual, and specifically scientific,
change. It also discusses a complex episode in the history of
paleontology, demonstrating how scientific and popular texts can
diverge over time. Finally, the authors expand their philosophy of
revision to religious texts, arguing that, rather than being
distinct, such texts are always read as other kinds, that faith
tends to be more important as evidence for religious texts than for
others, and that the latter explains why religious communities tend
to have remarkable historical longevity. Revising Fiction, Fact,
and Faith offers a unique and comprehensive account of the
philosophy of revision. It will be of interest to a wide range of
scholars and advanced students working in philosophy of language,
metaphysics, philosophy of literature, literary theory and
criticism, and history and philosophy of science and religion.
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