The Interpretation of Fictional Characters

February 4-5, 2025 | 9.00-12.30, 14-19.30/18.30 Aula A “Omero Proietti” | via Garibaldi 20 | MACERATA

Stream: http://tiny.cc/fictaunimc

February 4, 2025

Chair: Michele PAOLINI PAOLETTI

9.00-10.00 Elisa PAGANINI (Milan) Debates about fictional characters

10.00-11.00 Jansan FAVAZZO, Francesco ORILIA (Macerata) Indeterminate and inconsistent characterizations: two different perspectives

11.00-11.30 Break

11.30-12.30 David DAVIES (McGill) Further reflections on ‘connected names’ in fictions

12.30-14.00 Lunch Break — Chair: Emilio SANFILIPPO

14.00-15.00 James PHELAN (Ohio State) Character Narration as Characterization: A Matter of Degree?

15.00-16.00 Heloísa ABREU DE LIMA, Gaia TOMAZZOLI (Sapienza Rome) Scholarly observations on literary characters: two case studies from Medieval Italian literature

16.00-17.00 Françoise LAVOCAT (Paris 3 - Sorbonne Nouvelle) Character and literary theory (20th-21st centuries): from one dissolution to another

17.00-17.30 Break

17.30-18.30 Anthony EVERETT (Bristol) Three ways to imagine a fiction

18.30-19.30 Michele PAOLINI PAOLETTI (Macerata) Interpreting Ficta: Actual Intentions Matter

February 5, 2025

Chair: Francesco ORILIA

9.00-10.00 Catharine ABELL (Oxford) Fictional entities from a Dual Perspective

10.00-11.00 Gregory CURRIE (York) Folk psychology, silly questions, and the interpretation of characters in Attic drama

11.00-11.30 Break

11.30-12.30 Maria E. REICHER-MAREK (RWTH Aachen) Creative and non-creative interpretations

12.30-14.00 Lunch Break

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Chair: Gaia TOMAZZOLI

14.00-15.00 Alberto VOLTOLINI (Turin) Are Fictional Characters Objects of Interpretation?

15.00-16.00 Marco BUZZONI (Macerata) Thought Experiments and the identification of fictional characters

16.00-16.30 Break

16.30-17.30 Benedetta GIOVANOLA (Macerata) AI and the interpretation of texts: influence, manipulation, bias

17.30-18.30 Marta VILARDO, Emilio SANFILIPPO, Roberta FERRARIO, Claudio MASOLO (CNR) Interpretation at the Intersection between Literary Studies, Analytic Philosophy, and Formal Modeling

— Discussant: Johann MAREK (Graz)