... reveals an important lesson: those who endorse perspectivalism must take care to ensure that all parts of a legal argument, both premisses and conclusions, are true according to the legal perspective. perspectivalism fictionalism jurisprudence legal obligation 1. Adam Perry (2023) rejects...

...Doug Hardman fictionalism non-doxastic attitudes open-label placebo placebo effect pretence The placebo effect is traditionally defined as the psychological effect of a pharmacologically “inert” substance ( Beecher, 1955 ). Within this narrow scope, the paradigmatic situation occurs when...

... metaethical thesis, which I call deontic fictionalism, may give us some perspective on this debate and others like it. procreation adoption love reasons permissibility fictionalism To illustrate why there may be nothing to explain here, consider the relationship between a gestating person...

... rendering it unavailable to anyone antecedently convinced that mathematics and metaphysics concern non-contingent matters. I try to show that their arguments can be resisted by developing and defending a strategy suggested by Rosen, Nolan and Dorr, according to which the fiction-operator is to be analysed...

... folk psychology humanities empiricism Gödel Kurt Plato rationalism fictionalism Kitcher Philip Mill John Stuart Field Hartry Lewis David Kandel Eric teleosemantics Fodor Jerry Millikan Ruth stance intentionality eliminativism epistemology fictionalism mathematics folk psychology...

...), and the denial of moral justification (justification skepticism). Part I of the collection consists of four chapters on moral error theory, Part II consists of four chapters on the evolution of morality, and Part III consists of four chapters on projectivism and fictionalism. The topics of each of these three...

... the latter view. To take a fictionalist stance toward morality is to endorse it in many contexts while being disposed to deny it when in one’s most critical context. A noncognitivist version of fictionalism is identified and defended. Difficult questions that the fictionalist must address include: What...

... as an empirical hypothesis and as playing a supportive role in establishing the skeptical thesis that moral judgments lack justification. The final part of the collection consists of chapters discussing moral projectivism and moral fictionalism. This collection follows the development of ideas over the period...

... similarly overturn one or more varieties of moral antirealism? This chapter argues that if Moore did ever succeed, parallel appeals to commonsense moral judgments would refute moral “error” theories such as those of Mackie and Garner, and “revisionary” moral fictionalisms that are based on error theories...

...., G. E. Moore, David Enoch, William FitzPatrick), Meinongian theories (e.g., John Skorupski, T. M. Scanlon), non-ontological success theories (Derek Parfit), error theory (e.g., J. L. Mackie, Jonas Olson), fictionalism (e.g., Richard Joyce), expressivism (e.g., Simon Blackburn, Allan Gibbard...

..., this chapter introduces mental fictionalism and show how it offers a new way of understanding folk psychology in terms of metaphor and pretence. We often think of the mind as an inner world. We talk about mental states as if they were inner states that represent the world and cause us to behave...

...This chapter develops and motivates mental fictionalism by comparing it to well-known alternative positions, such as behaviourism and instrumentalism. It also considers how fictionalism relates to Gilbert Ryle’s view of the mind and Daniel Dennett’s influential...

...This chapter will show that mental fictionalism offers a new perspective on the relationship between mind and material culture. According to the extended mind thesis, items of material culture can form part of the material basis for our mental states. The extended mind thesis...

... that falling objects are point masses or that surfaces are free from friction? Flushed with enthusiasm, I wrote an initial defence of this idea ( Fictionalism and the folk , The Monist, 2016). At roughly the same time, I had several helpful and enjoyable discussions with John Dupré at Exeter, about...

...Hartry Field has attacked the indispensability argument by arguing that mathematics is in fact dispensable to science. He does this by showing a way to dispense with quantification over mathematical entities in Newtonian gravitation theory. He, thus, advances a kind of fictionalism about...

...This chapter considers how to choose between realism, mathematical fictionalism, and constructive empiricism as three different attitudes to our best scientific theories. It is argued that the choice should depend on consideration of which of these attitudes can best explain the predictive...

... with rejecting realism concerning the entities posited in such discourses. This, he claims, applies to discourse about fictional characters. It is asked whether a parallel argument might be given for discourse about multiple artworks. The chapter concludes by offering a provisional defence of non-Platonist...

...Antony Eagle, Causal Fictionalism In: Alternative Approaches to Causation: Beyond Difference-making and Mechanism. Edited by: Yafeng Shan, Oxford University Press. © Oxford University Press 2024. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780192863485.003.0009 Causation appears to present...