Mark Balaguer

Metaphysics, Sophistry, and Illusion

Toward a Widespread Non-Factualism

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Produktbeschreibung

Metaphysics, Sophistry, and Illusion introduces a novel kind of non-factualist view, and argues that we should endorse views of this kind in connection with a wide class of metaphysical questions. It also explains how these non-factualist views fit into a general anti-metaphysical view called neo-positivism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. März 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 163mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9780198868361
• ISBN-10: 0198868367
• Artikelnr.: 60781100

Autorenporträt

Mark Balaguer received a BA in Philosophy and Mathematics from the University of Colorado at Boulder, and a PhD in Philosophy from the City University of New York Graduate Center. He is the author of Platonism and Anti-Platonism in Mathematics (Oxford University Press, 1998), Free Will as an Open Scientific Problem (MIT Press, 2010), and Free Will (MIT Press, 2014), as well as numerous journal articles on a wide range of philosophical topics.

Inhaltsangabe

* 1: Introduction
* Part I: Non-Factualism
* 2: Against Trivialism and Mere-Verbalism (And Toward a Better
Understanding of the Kind of Non-Factualism Argued for in This Book)
* 3: How To Be a Fictionalist About Numbers and Tables and Just About
Anything Else
* 4: Non-Factualism About Composite Objects (Or Why There's No Fact Of
The Matter Whether Any Material Objects Exists)
* 5: Non-Factualism About Abstract Objects
* 6: Modal Nothingism
* Part II: Neo-Positivism
* 7: What is Neo-Positivism and How Could We Argue For It?
* 8: Conceptual Analysis
* 9: Widespread Non-Factualism
* 10: A Worldview