Fiction and Metaphysics - Paperbackby Amie L. Thomasson (Author) This challenging study places fiction squarely at the center of the discussion of metaphysics. Philosophers have traditionally treated fiction as involving a set of narrow problems in logic or the philosophy of language. By contrast Amie Thomasson argues that fiction has far reaching implications for central problems of metaphysics. The book develops an "artifactual" theory of fiction, whereby fictional characters are