Fictionalism in Metaphysics [Hardcover]

Fictionalism is the view that a serious intellectual inquiry need not aim at truth. Since 1980, fictionalist accounts of science, mathematics, morality, and other domains of inquiry have been developed. 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.

Introduction
1. Problems in the history of fictionalism,Gideon Rosen
2. Metaphor and prop oriented make-believe,Kendall Walton
3. The myth of seven,Stephen Yablo
4. Modal fictionalism and analysis,Seahwa Kim
5. Truth as a pretence,James A. Woodbridge
6. Belief about nothing in particular,Frederick Kroon
7. Fictionalist attitudes about fictional matters,Daniel Nolan
8. What we disagree about when we disagree about ontology,Cian Dorr
9. Moral fictionalism,Richard Joyce
10. Quasi-realism is fictionalism,David Lewis
11. Quasi-realism no fictionalism,Simon Blackburn