This interdisciplinary article discusses fictional games, focusing on those appearing in works of sf. ‘Fictional games’ are playful activities and ludic artefacts that were conceptualised to be part worlds. These games cannot - or at least not originally meant actually played. The article’s objective is explore how can function as utopian devices. Drawing game studies, studies sf the first half...

Can groups really be agents or is group agency just a fiction? Christian List and Philip Pettit argue influentially for group-agent realism by showing how certain form act on attitudes in ways they take to unexplainable at the level of individual constituting them. Group therefore considered not fiction metaphor but reality we must account explanations social phenomena. In this paper, I challen...

In this paper we explore the correlation between the sound of words and their meaning, by testing if the polarity (‘good guy’ or ‘bad guy’) of a character’s role in a work of fiction can be predicted by the name of the character in the absence of any other context. Our approach is based on phonological and other features proposed in prior theoretical studies of fictional names. These features a...

Realists about fictional characters posit a certain theoretical role and candidate to fill this role. I will delineate the realists take like Emma Woodhouse fill, argue that it is better filled by what call ‘characterisations’. In explaining mean ‘characterisations’, show existence of these entities comparatively uncontroversial. should acknowledge their existence, but doing so, argue, obviates...