---

Academic interests

I am a philosopher of fiction, currently working as an FNRS postdoc in Liège, on a project entitled "A new defence of antirealism in the philosophy of fiction".

The contemporary philosophy of fiction is a complex field which articulates several domains of philosophy. For instance, philosophers of fiction raise questions of aesthetics (What counts as a good or bad fiction?), of philosophy of art (What is the difference between pictorial and linguistic fictions?), of epistemology (Can we learn from fiction?), of philosophy of mind (What is imagination?), of metaphysics (What is the difference between fiction and non-fiction?), of philosophy of language (What is the difference between real names and fictional names?), of ontology (Do fictional characters exist?), etc.

I have already contributed to many of these areas, including papers in epistemology (2020), in the philosophy of language (2021a), in logic (2021b), in metaphysics (2023), in metaontology (2024c), in the philosophy of imagination (2024a), in ethics (2024b). The underlying idea driving all my research is a kind of antirealism, viz. the thesis that fictional characters do not exist. Surprisingly enough, antirealism is a minority view in the field to day. I'm working on changing this!

You can reach out using my uliege address, which is of the unoriginal form: my_first_name.my_last_name@uliege.be