Fictionalism in metaphysics / edited by Mark Eli Kalderon.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kalderon, Mark Eli, 1964-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Metaphysics.

Physical Description:

x, 354 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.

Summary:

Fictionalism is the view that a serious intellectual inquiry need not aim at truth. Since 1980, fictionalist accounts of science, mathematics, morality, and other domains of inquiry have been developed. 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [339]-350) and index.

ISBN:

0199282188

0199282196

OCLC:

60320013

Publisher Number:

9780199282180 (hbk.)

9780199282197 (pbk.)