Professor Richard Gaskin was educated at the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, and London, held a Lectureship in philosophy at the University of Sussex from 1991 to 1997, and then a Readership from 1997 until 2001, when he moved to his current post as Professor of Philosophy at the University of Liverpool. He has held visiting fellowships at the University of Bonn, University of Edinburgh, and University of Mainz.

• Contents Preface 1: Language, text, and world 2: Literature, fact, and fiction 3: Literary humanism: sense, reference, and knowledge 4: Literary humanism: analytical objections and responses 5: Reception theory and meaning 6: Literature and ambiguity 7: The status of authorial intentions 8: Deconstruction and meaning 9: Deconstruction and pragmatism 10: Literary language, science, and the world 11: Form, content, and ideology 12: Ideology and literary humanism References Index

the monograph is a welcome and consequential contribution to the philosophy of literature which also has something to offer philosophers of language, metaphysicians, episte mologists, ethicists, and literary and critical theorists.

Professor Richard Gaskin was educated at the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, and London, held a Lectureship in philosophy at the University of Sussex from 1991 to 1997, and then a Readership from 1997 until 2001, when he moved to his current post as Professor of Philosophy at the University of Liverpool. He has held visiting fellowships at the University of Bonn, University of Edinburgh, and University of Mainz.

• Contents Preface 1: Language, text, and world 2: Literature, fact, and fiction 3: Literary humanism: sense, reference, and knowledge 4: Literary humanism: analytical objections and responses 5: Reception theory and meaning 6: Literature and ambiguity 7: The status of authorial intentions 8: Deconstruction and meaning 9: Deconstruction and pragmatism 10: Literary language, science, and the world 11: Form, content, and ideology 12: Ideology and literary humanism References Index

the monograph is a welcome and consequential contribution to the philosophy of literature which also has something to offer philosophers of language, metaphysicians, episte mologists, ethicists, and literary and critical theorists.

Professor Richard Gaskin was educated at the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, and London, held a Lectureship in philosophy at the University of Sussex from 1991 to 1997, and then a Readership from 1997 until 2001, when he moved to his current post as Professor of Philosophy at the University of Liverpool. He has held visiting fellowships at the University of Bonn, University of Edinburgh, and University of Mainz.

• Contents Preface 1: Language, text, and world 2: Literature, fact, and fiction 3: Literary humanism: sense, reference, and knowledge 4: Literary humanism: analytical objections and responses 5: Reception theory and meaning 6: Literature and ambiguity 7: The status of authorial intentions 8: Deconstruction and meaning 9: Deconstruction and pragmatism 10: Literary language, science, and the world 11: Form, content, and ideology 12: Ideology and literary humanism References Index

the monograph is a welcome and consequential contribution to the philosophy of literature which also has something to offer philosophers of language, metaphysicians, episte mologists, ethicists, and literary and critical theorists.