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Metaphysics, Sophistry, and Illusion introduces a novel kind of non-factualist view, and argues that we should endorse views of this kind in connection with a wide class of metaphysical questions. It also explains how these non-factualist views fit into a general anti-metaphysical view called neo-positivism.
List of contents
- 1: Introduction
- Part I: Non-Factualism
- 2: Against Trivialism and Mere-Verbalism (And Toward a Better Understanding of the Kind of Non-Factualism Argued for in This Book)
- 3: How To Be a Fictionalist About Numbers and Tables and Just About Anything Else
- 4: Non-Factualism About Composite Objects (Or Why There's No Fact Of The Matter Whether Any Material Objects Exists)
- 5: Non-Factualism About Abstract Objects
- 6: Modal Nothingism
- Part II: Neo-Positivism
- 7: What is Neo-Positivism and How Could We Argue For It?
- 8: Conceptual Analysis
- 9: Widespread Non-Factualism
- 10: A Worldview
About the author
Mark Balaguer received a BA in Philosophy and Mathematics from the University of Colorado at Boulder, and a PhD in Philosophy from the City University of New York Graduate Center. He is the author of
Platonism and Anti-Platonism in Mathematics (Oxford University Press, 1998),
Free Will as an Open Scientific Problem (MIT Press, 2010), and
Free Will (MIT Press, 2014), as well as numerous journal articles on a wide range of philosophical topics.
Summary
Metaphysics, Sophistry, and Illusion introduces a novel kind of non-factualist view, and argues that we should endorse views of this kind in connection with a wide class of metaphysical questions. It also explains how these non-factualist views fit into a general anti-metaphysical view called neo-positivism.
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many interesting arguments
