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Fictionalism in Metaphysics (Paperback)
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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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