Manuel García-Carpintero was awarded a 'Distinció de Recerca' for senior researchers by the Catalan Government between 2002 and 2008, and in 2009 the prize 'ICREA Acadèmia' for excellence in research, also funded by the Generalitat de Catalunya, to work on a book on the nature of assertion and reference (2009-2013).; Genoveva Martí is a member elect of the Academia Europaea, since 2009. She was the first academic director of the Academia Europaea--Barcelona Knowledge Hub. In 2012 she received the Narcís Monturiol medal for scientific merit, awarded by the Generalitat de Catalunya.

García-Carpintero and Martí have curated some of the latest and best work on the topic, in one convenient and well-edited format. The volume accordingly stands as an excellent sample of the most cutting-edge thinking on these issues.

• Introduction ; 1. Transparency and the Context-Sensitivity of Attitude Reports ; 2. Two Dogmas of Russellianism ; 3. Intersubjective Intentional Identity ; 4. Vulcan Might Have Existed, and Neptune Not: On the Semantics of Empty Names ; 5. Content Relativism and the Problem of Empty Names ; 6. Empty Singular Terms in the Mental File Framework ; 7. The Things We Do With Empty Names: Objectual Representations, Non-Veridical Language Games, and Truth Similitude ; 8. A Practical Solution to the Problem of Empty Singular Thought ; 9. What is Existence? ; 10. The Problem of Negative Existentials Inadvertently Solved ; 11. Fictional Worlds and Fiction Operators ; 12. Many, but almost Holmes? ; 13. Notions of Nothing ; 14. Fictional Realism and Negative Existentials

Manuel García-Carpintero was awarded a 'Distinció de Recerca' for senior researchers by the Catalan Government between 2002 and 2008, and in 2009 the prize 'ICREA Acadèmia' for excellence in research, also funded by the Generalitat de Catalunya, to work on a book on the nature of assertion and reference (2009-2013).; Genoveva Martí is a member elect of the Academia Europaea, since 2009. She was the first academic director of the Academia Europaea--Barcelona Knowledge Hub. In 2012 she received the Narcís Monturiol medal for scientific merit, awarded by the Generalitat de Catalunya.

García-Carpintero and Martí have curated some of the latest and best work on the topic, in one convenient and well-edited format. The volume accordingly stands as an excellent sample of the most cutting-edge thinking on these issues.

• Introduction ; 1. Transparency and the Context-Sensitivity of Attitude Reports ; 2. Two Dogmas of Russellianism ; 3. Intersubjective Intentional Identity ; 4. Vulcan Might Have Existed, and Neptune Not: On the Semantics of Empty Names ; 5. Content Relativism and the Problem of Empty Names ; 6. Empty Singular Terms in the Mental File Framework ; 7. The Things We Do With Empty Names: Objectual Representations, Non-Veridical Language Games, and Truth Similitude ; 8. A Practical Solution to the Problem of Empty Singular Thought ; 9. What is Existence? ; 10. The Problem of Negative Existentials Inadvertently Solved ; 11. Fictional Worlds and Fiction Operators ; 12. Many, but almost Holmes? ; 13. Notions of Nothing ; 14. Fictional Realism and Negative Existentials

Manuel García-Carpintero was awarded a 'Distinció de Recerca' for senior researchers by the Catalan Government between 2002 and 2008, and in 2009 the prize 'ICREA Acadèmia' for excellence in research, also funded by the Generalitat de Catalunya, to work on a book on the nature of assertion and reference (2009-2013).; Genoveva Martí is a member elect of the Academia Europaea, since 2009. She was the first academic director of the Academia Europaea--Barcelona Knowledge Hub. In 2012 she received the Narcís Monturiol medal for scientific merit, awarded by the Generalitat de Catalunya.

García-Carpintero and Martí have curated some of the latest and best work on the topic, in one convenient and well-edited format. The volume accordingly stands as an excellent sample of the most cutting-edge thinking on these issues.

• Introduction ; 1. Transparency and the Context-Sensitivity of Attitude Reports ; 2. Two Dogmas of Russellianism ; 3. Intersubjective Intentional Identity ; 4. Vulcan Might Have Existed, and Neptune Not: On the Semantics of Empty Names ; 5. Content Relativism and the Problem of Empty Names ; 6. Empty Singular Terms in the Mental File Framework ; 7. The Things We Do With Empty Names: Objectual Representations, Non-Veridical Language Games, and Truth Similitude ; 8. A Practical Solution to the Problem of Empty Singular Thought ; 9. What is Existence? ; 10. The Problem of Negative Existentials Inadvertently Solved ; 11. Fictional Worlds and Fiction Operators ; 12. Many, but almost Holmes? ; 13. Notions of Nothing ; 14. Fictional Realism and Negative Existentials