%0 Journal Article
%T The Realistic Fallacy, or: The Conception of Literary Narrative Fiction in Analytic Aesthetics
%A Jukka Mikkonen
%J Studia Philosophica Estonica
%D 2009
%I University of Tartu
%X In this paper, my aim is to show that in Anglo-American analytic aesthetics, the conception of narrative fiction is in general realistic and that it derives from philosophical theories of fiction-making, the act of producing works of literary narrative fiction. I shall firstly broadly show the origins of the problem and illustrate how the so-called realistic fallacy ¨C the view which maintains that fictions consist of propositions which represent the fictional world ¡°as it is¡± ¨C is committed through the history of philosophical approaches to literature in the analytic tradition. Secondly, I shall show how the fallacy that derives from the 20th Century philosophy of language manifests itself in contemporary analytic aesthetics, using Peter Lamarque and Stein Haugom Olsen¡¯s influential and well-known Gricean make-believe theory of fiction as an example. Finally, I shall sketch how the prevailing Gricean make-believe theories should be modified in order to reach the literary-fictive use of language and to cover fictions broader than Doyle¡¯s stories and works alike.
%K analytic aesthetics
%K fiction
%U http://www.spe.ut.ee/ojs/index.php/spe/article/download/54/32