..., 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...

... a conference on mental ctionalism in Budapest in October 2019, and edited a volume on the same topic (Mental Fictionalism, Routledge, 2022). Thanks also to those who participated in the conference and contributed such excellent papers for the volume, including Tim Crane, Julianne Chung, Greg Currie, Dan...

...WThis chapter explores the implications of mental fictionalism for the nature of intentionality. An important feature of mental states is that they can represent things in the world. According to the representational theory of mind (or representationalism...

... of fiction reveals a number of issues which bear on mental fictionalism, here understood as a view that proposes a fictionalist treatment of folk psychology. After sketching a few such issues, the chapter unearths difficulties for a figurative fictionalist approach, concentrating on Adam Toon’s recent...

... a conference on mental ctionalism in Budapest in October 2019, and edited a volume on the same topic (Mental Fictionalism, Routledge, 2022). Thanks also to those who participated in the conference and contributed such excellent papers for the volume, including Tim Crane, Julianne Chung, Greg Currie, Dan...