Pretense and Pathology
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Pretense and Pathology

Philosophical Fictionalism and its Applications

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Pretense and Pathology

Philosophical Fictionalism and its Applications

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In this book, Bradley Armour-Garb and James A. Woodbridge distinguish various species of fictionalism, locating and defending their own version of philosophical fictionalism. Addressing semantic and philosophical puzzles that arise from ordinary language, they consider such issues as the problem of non-being, plural identity claims, mental-attitude ascriptions, meaning attributions, and truth-talk. They consider 'deflationism about truth', explaining why deflationists should be fictionalists, and show how their philosophical fictionalist account of truth-talk underwrites a dissolution of the Liar Paradox and its kin. They further explore the semantic notions of reference and predicate-satisfaction, showing how philosophical fictionalism can also resolve puzzles that these notions appear to present. Their critical examination of fictionalist approaches in philosophy, together with the development and application of their own brand of philosophical fictionalism, will be of great interest to scholars and upper-level students of philosophy of language, metaphysics, philosophical logic, philosophy of mind, epistemology, and linguistics.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2015
ISBN
9781316308585
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Mind & Body in Philosophy

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright information
  5. Dedication
  6. Table of contents
  7. Preface
  8. 1 Philosophical fictionalism
  9. 2 Semantic pretense-involving fictionalism and existence-talk
  10. 3 Propositional realism and a SPIF account of proposition-talk
  11. 4 T-deflationism and a SPIF account of truth-talk
  12. 5 Diagnosing and treating the Liar Paradox and other apparent alethic pathologies
  13. 6 SPIF accounts of reference-talk and predicate-satisfaction-talk and apparent non-alethic semantic pathology
  14. 7 Extensions and objections
  15. Bibliography
  16. Index