Pretense and Pathology: philosophical fictionalism and its applications
In this book, Bradley Armour-Garb and James A. Woodbridge distinguish various species of fictionalism, locating and defending their own version of philosophical fictionalism. Addressing semantic and philosophical puzzles that arise from ordinary language, they consider such issues as the problem of...
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| Summary: | In this book, Bradley Armour-Garb and James A. Woodbridge distinguish various species of fictionalism, locating and defending their own version of philosophical fictionalism. Addressing semantic and philosophical puzzles that arise from ordinary language, they consider such issues as the problem of non-being, plural identity claims, mental-attitude ascriptions, meaning attributions, and truth-talk. They consider 'deflationism about truth', explaining why deflationists should be fictionalists, and show how their philosophical fictionalist account of truth-talk underwrites a dissolution of the Liar Paradox and its kin. They further explore the semantic notions of reference and predicate-satisfaction, showing how philosophical fictionalism can also resolve puzzles that these notions appear to present. Their critical examination of fictionalist approaches in philosophy, together with the development and application of their own brand of philosophical fictionalism, will be of great interest to scholars and upper-level students of philosophy of language, metaphysics, philosophical logic, philosophy of mind, epistemology, and linguistics |
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Preface page ix
1 Philosophical fictionalism 1
1.1 Two species of fictionalism 1
1.2 Some important aspects of fiction (or, a minor foray into philosophy
of fiction) 5
13 Concerns with comparative fictionalism qua fictionalism 8
1.4 The central tenets of fictionalism 11
1.5 From comparative fictionalism to philosophical fictionalism 18
1.6 Philosophical fictionalism and other distinctions within fictionalism 30
2 Semantic pretense-involving fictionalism and existence-talk 39
2.1 Make-believe, representational aids, and partially pretend claims 39
2.2 Language-world connections, long-arm conceptual roles, and M-conditions 44
2.3 Types of pretense in partially pretend claims 50
2.4 Pragmatic PIF and its problems 55
2.5 Prior SPIF accounts and the Engagement Complaints 60
2.6 Our SPIF account of existence-talk 64
3 Propositional realism and a SPIF account of proposition-talk 77
3.1 Propositions and proposition-talk 77
3.2 Benacerraf s challenges as problems for propositions 79
3.3 Our SPIF account of proposition-talk 84
3.4 Our SPIF account of proposition-talk and Benacerraf s challenges 113
4 T-deflationism and a SPIF account of truth-talk 116
4.1 Understanding T-deflationism 116
4.2 From mathematical fictionalism to truth-theoretic fictionalism 119
4.3 Our SPIF account of truth-talk 130
4.4 Conclusions for truth-talk 150
5 Diagnosing and treating the Liar Paradox and other apparent
alethic pathologies 152
5.1 Unearthing (apparent) semantic pathology 152
5.2 Pretense and meaninglessness 154
5.3 Meaninglessness and understanding 157
5.4 Meaninglessness, generalization, and denial 161
5.5 Semantic characterization and s-defectiveness 163
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Contents
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5.6 S-Defectiveness and liar sentences 165
5.7 Replies to further potential revenge concerns 168
5.8 Extended apparent alethic pathology 180
5.9 Diagnosing and treating extended apparent alethic pathology 187
5.10 Closing remarks 190
6 SPIF accounts of reference-talk and predicate-satisfaction-talk
and apparent non-alethic semantic pathology 193
6.1 Our SPIF account of reference/denotation-talk 193
6.2 Our SPIF account of predicate-satisfaction-talk 202
6.3 Apparent non-alethic semantic pathology revealed 205
6.4 Diagnosing and treating apparent non-alethic semantic pathology 210
6.5 Conclusions for reference/denotation-talk and predicate-satisfaction-talk 222
7 Extensions and objections 224
7.1 Plural identity-talk 224
7.2 M-conditions-talk 241
7.3 Circularity worries and putative restrictions on fictionalism 244
7.4 A challenge to our dissolution of apparent semantic pathology 251
7.5 Concluding remarks 258
Bibliography 259
Index 267
Contents
Preface page ix
1 Philosophical fictionalism 1
1.1 Two species of fictionalism 1
1.2 Some important aspects of fiction (or, a minor foray into philosophy
of fiction) 5
13 Concerns with comparative fictionalism qua fictionalism 8
1.4 The central tenets of fictionalism 11
1.5 From comparative fictionalism to philosophical fictionalism 18
1.6 Philosophical fictionalism and other distinctions within fictionalism 30
2 Semantic pretense-involving fictionalism and existence-talk 39
2.1 Make-believe, representational aids, and partially pretend claims 39
2.2 Language-world connections, long-arm conceptual roles, and M-conditions 44
2.3 Types of pretense in partially pretend claims 50
2.4 Pragmatic PIF and its problems 55
2.5 Prior SPIF accounts and the Engagement Complaints 60
2.6 Our SPIF account of existence-talk 64
3 Propositional realism and a SPIF account of proposition-talk 77
3.1 Propositions and proposition-talk 77
3.2 Benacerraf s challenges as problems for propositions 79
3.3 Our SPIF account of proposition-talk 84
3.4 Our SPIF account of proposition-talk and Benacerraf s challenges 113
4 T-deflationism and a SPIF account of truth-talk 116
4.1 Understanding T-deflationism 116
4.2 From mathematical fictionalism to truth-theoretic fictionalism 119
4.3 Our SPIF account of truth-talk 130
4.4 Conclusions for truth-talk 150
5 Diagnosing and treating the Liar Paradox and other apparent
alethic pathologies 152
5.1 Unearthing (apparent) semantic pathology 152
5.2 Pretense and meaninglessness 154
5.3 Meaninglessness and understanding 157
5.4 Meaninglessness, generalization, and denial 161
5.5 Semantic characterization and s-defectiveness 163
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Contents
viii
5.6 S-Defectiveness and liar sentences 165
5.7 Replies to further potential revenge concerns 168
5.8 Extended apparent alethic pathology 180
5.9 Diagnosing and treating extended apparent alethic pathology 187
5.10 Closing remarks 190
6 SPIF accounts of reference-talk and predicate-satisfaction-talk
and apparent non-alethic semantic pathology 193
6.1 Our SPIF account of reference/denotation-talk 193
6.2 Our SPIF account of predicate-satisfaction-talk 202
6.3 Apparent non-alethic semantic pathology revealed 205
6.4 Diagnosing and treating apparent non-alethic semantic pathology 210
6.5 Conclusions for reference/denotation-talk and predicate-satisfaction-talk 222
7 Extensions and objections 224
7.1 Plural identity-talk 224
7.2 M-conditions-talk 241
7.3 Circularity worries and putative restrictions on fictionalism 244
7.4 A challenge to our dissolution of apparent semantic pathology 251
7.5 Concluding remarks 258
Bibliography 259
Index 267
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