- Paperback: 366 pages
- Publisher: Clarendon Press (7 July 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0199282196
- ISBN-13: 978-0199282197
- Product Dimensions: 23.3 x 15.8 x 2 cm
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Kalderon's collection of eleven papers, written by top philosophers in the field, represents the breadth and width of the topic... The papers are all of extremely high quality, and contain important original work. (Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews )
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Fictionalism is the view that a serious intellectual inquiry need not aim at truth. It came to prominence in philosophy in 1980, when Hartry Field argued that mathematics does not have to be true to be good, and Bas van Fraassen argued that the aim of science is not truth but empirical adequacy. Both suggested that the acceptance of a mathematical or scientific theory need not involve belief in its content. Thus the distinctive commitment of fictionalism is that acceptance in a given domain of inquiry need not be truth-normed, and that the acceptance of a sentence from the associated region of discourse need not involve belief in its content. 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.
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Kalderon's fictionalism volume disappoints
25 Jan 2011
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Mark Eli Kalderon's "Fictionalism in Metaphysics" leaves much to be desired, especially in the way of fictionalist accounts of modality, where fictionalism is a prominent and attractive option. The one paper written on fictionalism in modality (Seahwa Kim) is adequate only insofar as a counter argument to the so-called "modal objection" to modal fictionalism, but is inadequate to the extent that it offers little insight into the myriad of problems with modal fictionalism, especially that of Gideon Rosen's (1990) "strong" (as opposed to "timid") modal fictionalism.
For those interested in fictionalism be warned that this volume is far from a comprehensive introduction to the subject, and leaves much to be desired as far as fictionalist accounts of modality are concerned. I would still recommend this volume as it does contain some intriguing pieces (Yablo's "Myth of Seven" and Dorr's piece on metaontology stand out). It might be useful to supplement this volume with R.M. Sainsbury's (2009)Fiction and Fictionalism (New Problems of Philosophy)
For those interested in fictionalism be warned that this volume is far from a comprehensive introduction to the subject, and leaves much to be desired as far as fictionalist accounts of modality are concerned. I would still recommend this volume as it does contain some intriguing pieces (Yablo's "Myth of Seven" and Dorr's piece on metaontology stand out). It might be useful to supplement this volume with R.M. Sainsbury's (2009)Fiction and Fictionalism (New Problems of Philosophy)
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