Mark Eli Kalderon (ed.)

Fictionalism in Metaphysics

Herausgeber: Kalderon, Mark Eli

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 364
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 689g
• ISBN-13: 9780199282180
• ISBN-10: 0199282188
• Artikelnr.: 21722032

Autorenporträt

Edited by Mark Eli Kalderon, University College London

Contributors: Gideon Rosen Kendall Walton Stephen Yablo Seahwa Kim James A. Woodbridge Frederick Kroon Daniel Nolan Cian Dorr Richard Joyce David Lewis Simon Blackburn

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: Gideon Rosen: Problems in the history of fictionalism
2: Kendall Walton: Metaphor and prop oriented make-believe
3: Stephen Yablo: The myth of seven
4: Seahwa Kim: Modal fictionalism and analysis
5: James A. Woodbridge: Truth as a pretence
6: Frederick Kroon: Belief about nothing in particular
7: Daniel Nolan: Fictionalist attitudes about fictional matters
8: Cian Dorr: What we disagree about when we disagree about ontology
9: Richard Joyce: Moral fictionalism
10: David Lewis: Quasi-realism is fictionalism
11: Simon Blackburn: Quasi-realism no fictionalism