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The Nonexistent

This book required extensive research over the last six years on a wide variety of topics. It is primarily concerned with longstanding and vexed issues concerning fictional objects, as well as the philosophy of language, and is comprehensively informed by philosophical and empirical research conducted in aesthetics (the nature of fiction, fictional truth, interpretation, narrative comprehension) the philosophy of mind, cognitive science, and neuroscience (imagination, autism, delusions, imaging, the visual system, dreaming, counterfactual reasoning, memory, introspection, self-knowledge, mindreading), and metaphysics. Synthesizing all this material, and using it to motivate and defend the account developed, was a considerable and time-consuming undertaking.