| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 273 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Summary |
"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"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication; Table of contents; Preface; 1 Philosophical fictionalism; 1.1 Two species of fictionalism; 1.2 Some important aspects of fiction (or, a minor foray into philosophy of fiction); 1.3 Concerns with comparative fictionalism qua fictionalism; 1.4 The central tenets of fictionalism; 1.4.1 Some mischaracterizations of fictionalism; 1.4.2 Semantic characterizations of fictionalism; 1.5 From comparative fictionalism to philosophical fictionalism; 1.5.1 General aspects of philosophical fictionalism. |
|
1.5.2 Philosophical fictionalist philosophies of fiction1.6 Philosophical fictionalism and other distinctions within fictionalism; 1.6.1 Revolutionary fictionalism versus hermeneutic fictionalism; 1.6.2 Prefix versus pretense; 1.6.2.1 The Aboutness Problem; 1.6.2.2 Responses to the Aboutness Problem; 1.6.3 Error-theoretic fictionalism versus pretense-involving fictionalism; 2 Semantic pretense-involving fictionalism and existence-talk; 2.1 Make-believe, representational aids, and partially pretend claims; 2.2 Language-world connections, long-arm conceptual roles, and M-conditions. |
|
2.3 Types of pretense in partially pretend claims2.4 Pragmatic PIF and its problems; 2.4.1 Kroonś pragmatic PIF approach; 2.4.2 Kroonś accounts and the Engagement and Sophistication Complaints; 2.5 Prior SPIF accounts and the Engagement Complaints; 2.5.1 Walton and EC; 2.5.2 Yablo and EC; 2.5.3 Crimmins and EC; 2.6 Our SPIF account of existence-talk; 2.6.1 The semantic pretense behind existence-talk; 2.6.2 Our SPIF account and challenges to philosophical fictionalism; 2.6.2.1 Our SPIF account and the Engagement Complaint; 2.6.2.2 Our SPIF account and the Sophistication Complaint. |
|
3 Propositional realism and a SPIF account of proposition-talk3.1 Propositions and proposition-talk; 3.2 Benacerrafś challenges as problems for propositions; 3.2.1 The non-uniqueness problem for propositions; 3.2.2 The access problem for propositions; 3.3 Our SPIF account of proposition-talk; 3.3.1 The make-believe behind proposition-talk; 3.3.1.1 Proposition Identification: Sentence form A) and Rule (P-II/A); 3.3.1.2 Proposition Description: Sentence form B) and Rule (P-III/B); 3.3.1.3 Attitude/Speech-Act Ascription: Sentence form C) and Rule (P-IV/C). |
|
3.3.1.4 Meaning Attribution: Sentence forms D) and E) and Rules (P-V/D) and (P-VI/E)3.3.2 Further expressive gains; 3.3.3 Extending the background pretenses; 3.4 Our SPIF account of proposition-talk and Benacerrafś challenges; 4 T-deflationism and a SPIF account of truth-talk; 4.1 Understanding T-deflationism; 4.1.1 The expressive role of `true;́ 4.2 From mathematical fictionalism to truth-theoretic fictionalism; 4.2.1 Yabloś figuralism; 4.2.2 From truth-talk to number-talk; 4.2.3 The expressive roles of number-talk and truth-talk; 4.2.4 Drawing the argument parallels. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Fictions, Theory of.
|
|
Fictions, Theory of. |
|
Philosophy.
|
|
Philosophy. |
|
philosophy. |
|
PHILOSOPHY -- Mind & Body. |
|
PHILOSOPHY -- Epistemology. |
| Added Author |
Woodbridge, James A., author.
|
| Other Form: |
Print version: Armour-Garb, Bradley P., 1968- Pretense and pathology 9781107028272 (DLC) 2014042755 (OCoLC)894935751 |
| ISBN |
9781316318607 (electronic book) |
|
1316318605 (electronic book) |
|
9781139235990 (electronic book) |
|
1139235990 (electronic book) |
|
9781107028272 |
|
1107028272 |
|
