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.
Author(s): Mark Eli Kalderon
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Year: 2005
Language: English
Pages: 365
Contents......Page 8
Notes on Contributors......Page 10
Introduction......Page 12
1 Problems in the History of Fictionalism......Page 25
2 Metaphor and Prop Oriented Make-Believe......Page 76
3 The Myth of the Seven......Page 99
4 Modal Fictionalism and Analysis......Page 127
5 Truth as a Pretense......Page 145
6 Belief about Nothing in Particular......Page 189
7 Fictionalist Attitudes about Fictional Matters......Page 215
8 What we Disagree about when we Disagree about Ontology......Page 245
9 Moral Fictionalism......Page 298
10 Quasi-Realism is Fictionalism......Page 325
11 Quasi-Realism no Fictionalism......Page 333
References......Page 350
E......Page 362
L......Page 363
R......Page 364
Z......Page 365
