Truth in Serial Fiction

Dr Lee Walters is a Lecturer in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Southampton.  More information about Dr Lee Walters.

‘Truth in Serial Fiction’ - Dr Lee Walters writes:

Andrew McGonigal (2013) presents some novel data concerning truth in serial fiction, arguing that this data motivates a relativist approach to truth in serial fiction. I argue that the relativist cannot account for the data, but that a standard semantics can, once combined with an independently plausible view about evidence. I close by noting that branching fictions present a slight complication, whatever one’s treatment of truth in serial fiction.