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Fictionalism in Metaphysics

Edited by Mark Eli Kalderon

Price: £63.00 (hardback)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-928218-0
Publication date: 7 July 2005
372 pages, 234x156 mm

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Description

The first collection exclusively devoted to this very hot topic
Superb international line-up of contributors
Represents the very latest thinking in current debates
Ten specially written pieces and one reprinted classic by Walton
The editor provides an ideal introduction to the topic

Readership: Scholars and students of philosophy

Contents

Introduction

1. Problems in the history of fictionalism , Gideon Rosen

2. Metaphor and prop oriented make-believe , Kendall Walton

3. The myth of seven , Stephen Yablo

4. Modal fictionalism and analysis , Seahwa Kim

5. Truth as a pretence , James A. Woodbridge

6. Belief about nothing in particular , Frederick Kroon

7. Fictionalist attitudes about fictional matters , Daniel Nolan

8. What we disagree about when we disagree about ontology , Cian Dorr

9. Moral fictionalism , Richard Joyce

10. Quasi-realism is fictionalism , David Lewis

11. Quasi-realism no fictionalism , Simon Blackburn

Authors, editors, and contributors

Edited by Mark Eli Kalderon, University College London

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Metaphysics & ontology
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