Research Catalog

Title

Fictionalism in philosophy / edited by Bradley Armour-Garb and Frederick Kroon.

Publication

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2020]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Armour-Garb, Bradley P., 1968-
• Kroon, Fred

Description

ix, 237 pages; 22 cm

Summary

"Within contemporary, analytic philosophy, "Fictionalism"-broadly understood as a view that uses a notion of fiction in order to resolve certain philosophical problems that do not necessarily have anything to do with fiction-has been on the scene for some time. There is a well-known collection, Fictionalism in Metaphysics (OUP, 2005), which provided a good indication of the scope of the view (and its problems) as things stood in the early 2000's. But more than a decade has passed since the appearance of that volume, and much has happened in philosophy, including in the area of fictionalism. In addition to the fact that fictionalism in philosophy appears to be more popular than ever, there are now competing views about how to tackle some of the issues that fictionalists aim to address. Moreover, fictionalism has branched out into many more areas, and there is a continuing debate about what fictionalism in philosophy actually amounts to, and about how precisely it ought to be pursued. There is thus a pressing need for a volume such as Fictionalism in Philosophy. After a detailed discussion in the book's introductory chapter of how, in the light of these ongoing debates, philosophers should think of fictionalism and its connection to metaontology more generally, the remaining chapters provide readers with some of the most current and up-to-date work on fictionalism, both for and against. As such, the volume will be of interest to professional philosophers, as well as to graduate students in philosophy and to advanced undergraduates"--

Subjects

• Philosophy
• Fictions, Theory of

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Metaphysics as a fiction / Gideon Rosen -- Fictionalism as a phase (to be grown out of) / John P. Burgess -- Fictionalism and reasons / Chris Daly -- Against hermeneutic fictionalism / David Liggins -- Fictionalism: morality and metaphor / Richard Joyce -- Should the mathematical fictionalist be a moral fictionalist too? / Mary Leng -- How to be a fictionalist about material constitution (and just about anything else) / Mark Balaguer -- Folk stories: what has fiction to do with mental fictionalism? / Craig Bourne and Emily Caddick Bourne -- Of rabbits and men: fiction and scientific modeling / Roman Frigg and Fiora Salis -- Religious fictionalism and Pascal's wager / Stuart Brock.

Call Number

JFD 21-394

ISBN

• 9780190689605
• 0190689609
• 9780190689629 (canceled/invalid)
• 9780190689612 (canceled/invalid)
• 9780190689636 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2019032566

OCLC

1117310060

Title

Fictionalism in philosophy / edited by Bradley Armour-Garb and Frederick Kroon.

Publisher

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2020]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Armour-Garb, Bradley P., 1968- editor.

Kroon, Fred, editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Fictionalism in philosophy New York : Oxford University Press, 2019. 9780190689629 (DLC) 2019032567

Research Call Number

JFD 21-394