Pretense and Pathology - Philosophical Fictionalism and Its Applications

This book provides a new philosophical fictionalism to solve traditional paradoxes and puzzles in the philosophy of language and metaphysics.

List of contents

Preface; 1. Philosophical fictionalism; 2. Semantic pretense-involving fictionalism and existence-talk; 3. Propositional realism and a SPIF account of proposition-talk; 4. T-deflationism and a SPIF account of truth-talk; 5. Diagnosing and treating the Liar Paradox and other apparent alethic pathologies; 6. SPIF accounts of reference-talk and predicate-satisfaction-talk and apparent non-alethic semantic pathology; 7. Extensions and objections; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Bradley Armour-Garb is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University at Albany, State University of New York and a Fellow of Wolfson College, University of Oxford. He is co-editor of and a contributor to several books including The Law of Non-Contradiction: New Philosophical Essays (2004), Deflationism and Paradox (2005), and Deflationary Truth (2005). He is also the editor of and a contributor to The Relevance of the Liar (forthcoming).James A. Woodbridge is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He is the author of 'Truth as a Pretense' in Fictionalism in Metaphysics (2005). He has also published articles with Bradley Armour-Garb in journals including Noûs, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Analysis, Philosophical Studies, and the Australasian Journal of Philosophy, and in edited collections such as New Waves in Truth (2010), Recent Trends in Philosophical Logic (2014), and Unifying the Philosophy of Truth (2015).

Summary

Distinguishing and evaluating different fictionalist approaches in philosophy, this book explains how a particular philosophical fictionalism can solve a wide range of traditional philosophical puzzles and paradoxes. It is of interest to scholars and upper-level students of the philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, logic, epistemology, linguistics, and metaphysics.

Product details

• Authors: Bradley Armour-Garb, Bradley Woodbridge Armour-Garb, Armour-Garb Bradley, James Woodbridge, James A. Woodbridge
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.07.2015
• EAN: 9781107028272
• ISBN: 978-1-107-02827-2
• No. of pages: 286
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Fiction & related items, Philosophy of Language, PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, Linguistics, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy, Pathology, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Philosophy: logic, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc