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9780199282180

Fictionalism in Metaphysics

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  • ISBN13:

    9780199282180

  • ISBN10:

    0199282188

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2005-09-01
  • Publisher: Clarendon Press

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Summary

Fictionalism is the view that a serious intellectual inquiry need not aim at truth. Since 1980, fictionalist accounts of science, mathematics, morality, and other domains of inquiry have been developed. In metaphysics fictionalism is now widely regarded as an option worthy of serious consideration. This volume represents a major benchmark in the debate: it brings together an impressive international team of contributors, whose essays (all but one of them appearing here for the first time) represent the state of the art in various areas of metaphysical controversy, relating to language, mathematics, modality, truth, belief, ontology, and morality.

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors ix
Introduction 1(13)
Mark Eli Kalderon
Problems in the History of Fictionalism
14(51)
Gideon Rosen
Metaphor and Prop Oriented Make-Believe
65(23)
Kendall L. Walton
The Myth of the Seven
88(28)
Stephen Yablo
Modal Fictionalism and Analysis
116(18)
Seahwa Kim
Truth as a Pretense
134(44)
James A. Woodbridge
Belief about Nothing in Particular
178(26)
Frederick Kroon
Fictionalist Attitudes about Fictional Matters
204(30)
Daniel Nolan
What we Disagree about when we Disagree about Ontology
234(53)
Cian Dorr
Moral Fictionalism
287(27)
Richard Joyce
Quasi-Realism is Fictionalism
314(8)
David Lewis
Quasi-Realism no Fictionalism
322(17)
Simon Blackburn
References 339(12)
Index 351

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