Date:
Tuesday, October 20, 2015 - 5:30pm to 7:00pm
Our discourse about fiction seems to pull us in different directions. On the one hand, Sherlock Holmes does not exist, on the other he was created by Conan Doyle. I argue that the best approach is to admit that fictional names are ambiguous, having both a referring and a non-referring use. I motivate and defend this proposal by looking at other cases of metonymic transfer.