Fictionalism in Philosophy
There are things we routinely say that may strike us as literally false but that we are nonetheless reluctant to give up. This might be something mundane, like the way we talk about the sun setting in the west (it is the earth that moves), or it could be something much deeper, like engaging in talk that is ostensibly about numbers despite believing that numbers do not literally exist. Rather than regard such behaviour as self-defeating, a fictionalist is someone who thinks that this kind of discourse is entirely appropriate, even helpful, so long as we treat what is said as a useful fiction, rather than as the sober truth.Fictionalism can be…
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Weitere Autoren: Kroon, Frederick (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-19-068962-9
- EAN: 9780190689629
- Produktnummer: 33331132
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 288 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 856 KB
Über den Autor
Bradley Armour-Garb is Professor of Philosophy at the University at Albany-SUNY and was a fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford. His research focuses on issues in metaphysics, the philosophy of language, and philosophical logic and he has published articles in these areas in a number of journals including, but not limited to, Analysis, The Aristotelian Society, The Journal of Philosophy, The Journal of Philosophical Logic, Noûs, and Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. He is on the editorial board at The American Philosophical Quarterly, and he will be starting as chair of his department in Fall 2019.Frederick Kroon is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Auckland. His main research areas are philosophical logic, philosophy of language, and metaphysics, and he has authored papers in these and other areas for a range of journals, including Analysis, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, The Philosophical Review, The Journal of Philosophy, Ethics, and Noûs. He is on the editorial board of the Australasian Journal of Philosophy and is a subject editor for 20th Century Philosophy for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
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