Research Group
in Analytic Philosophy

Abstract

I provide a variation on ideas by Walton and Currie, elaborating the view that fictive utterances are characterized by a specific form of illocutionary force in the family of directives  – a proposal or invitation to imagine. I make some points on the relation between the proposal and current debates between intentionalist and conventionalist views, and I discuss interesting recent objections by Stacie Friend to the related, but crucially different Gricean view of such force by Currie and others.