@article{Mikkonen_2009, title={The Realistic Fallacy, or: The Conception of Literary Narrative Fiction in Analytic Aesthetics}, url={https://ojs.utlib.ee/index.php/spe/article/view/spe.2009.2.1.01}, DOI={10.12697/spe.2009.2.1.01}, abstractNote={<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">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 – the view which maintains that fictions consist of propositions which represent the fictional world “as it is” – 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.</p>}, journal={Studia Philosophica Estonica}, author={Mikkonen, Jukka}, year={2009}, month={Mar.}, pages={1–18} }