Luke Manning

I am a philosopher. I recently completed my Ph.D. dissertation at the University of California, Santa Barbara. I work mostly on metaphysics and representation (which comprises the philosophies of language and logic, and chunks of the philosophies of mind and art). Specifically, much of my work is on metaphysical and representational problems with fiction.

Research

Papers

• “How to Create a Fictional Object” (draft, February 8, 2012; under review)
• “No Identity Without an Entity” (draft, March 8, 2012)

Dissertation

• Signifying Nothing? How Fiction Represents (University of California, Santa Barbara, March 2012)

Bibliographies

Here's a bibliography on the metaphysics of fictional objects. (BibTeX format, readable in a text editor) [updated 11/2/2011]

There's also this list of incoming items I haven't yet categorized, many of which are probably directly relevant to the above topic. [updated 11/2/2011]

Other stuff

I used to have here a copy of Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. Here now is the Google Books version, and the Project Gutenberg version.

I use the following: