TY - JOUR AU - Alberto Voltolini PY - 2013/12/02 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Probably the Charterhouse of Parma Does Not Exist, Possibly Not Even That Parma JF - HUMANA.MENTE Journal of Philosophical Studies JA - HM VL - 6 IS - 25 SE - Articles DO - UR - https://www.humanamente.eu/index.php/HM/article/view/142 AB - In this paper, I will claim that fictional works apparently about utterly immigrant objects, i.e., real individuals imported in fiction from reality, are instead about fictional individuals that intentionally resemble those real individuals in a significant manner: fictional surrogates of such individuals. Since I also share the realists’ conviction that the remaining fictional works concern native characters, i.e., full-fledged fictional individuals that originate in fiction itself, I will here defend a hyperrealist position according to which fictional works only concern fictional individuals. ER -