Category: MITE’s publications

The identity of Fictional Characters. A Philosophical Survey Michele Paolini Paoletti, Jansan Favazzo, Francesco Orilia, EUM Edizioni Università di Macerata 2025 Available in Open Access.

The Interpretation of Fictional Characters in Literary Texts: History of Literary Criticism, Philosophy and Formal Ontologies Special issue of «Humanities», guest edited by M. Paolini Paoletti, E.M. Sanfilippo, G. Tomazzoli (reprint available here) Our special issue is finally published in its entirety! It features 18 international articles on several issues pertaining to fictional characters, spanning…

Last May MITE’s team gathered in Catania to present a poster at the annual conference of AIUCD (Associazione per l’Informatica Umanistica e la Cultura Digitale): it was a great venue and a thought-provoking event! The proceedings are now published in open access: you can download the full volume here, and look for our paper! Emilio…

Fresh and recent publications/presentations about the project: – Michele Paolini Paoletti: The Identity of Fictional Entities and the Place of Authors. Talk at the European Society for Aesthetics (ESA 2024), 6-8 June, 2024, Naples, Italy. – Emilio M. Sanfilippo, Claudio Masolo and Roberta Ferrario: Literary Characters and Interpretation Practices. Talk at the European Society for…

MITE’s first publication is out! In 2023 we took part in the 13th FOIS (Formal Ontology in Information Systems) international conference, and the proceedings are now online and available in open access! Emilio M. Sanfilippo, Antonio Sotgiu, Gaia Tomazzoli, Claudio Masolo, Daniele Porello, Roberta Ferrario, Ontological Modeling of Scholarly Statements: A Case Study in Literary…