Fictionalism in Metaphysics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4079059 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Frederick Kroon (0000-0002-3785-5331, University of Auckland, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 11 |
| Pages | 786-803 |
| Publication date | 2011-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Philosophy Compass (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1747-9991 • E-ISSN: 1747-9991 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1747-9991.2011.00442.x |
| OpenAlex | W2117439234 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 86 |
This is a survey of contemporary work on 'fictionalism in metaphysics', a term that is taken to signify both the place of fictionalism as a distinctive anti-realist metaphysics in which usefulness rather than truth is the norm of acceptance, and the fact that philosophers have given fictionalist treatments of a range of specifically metaphysical notions
Epistemology · Metaphysics · Classical Philosophy and Thought · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics · Philosophy · Philosophy and Theoretical Science
Ethics
Mimesis as make-believe
A Combinatorial Theory of Possibility
Mathematics and Reality
Platonism and Anti-Platonism in Mathematics
The Myth of Morality
Counterpart Theory and Quantified Modal Logic
Mathematical Truth
The Blackwell Guide to Metaphysics
The Myth of the Seven
On Conservatives and Incompleteness
Oratio Obliqua, Oratio Recta
Honest Illusion
Can an atheist believe in God
Religious fictionalism defended
A critique of religious fictionalism
Actualism and possible worlds
In Defense of the Simplest Quantified Modal Logic
Two Modal–isms
The Return of Moral Fictionalism
Structural correspondence, indirect reference, and partial truth
Is It Possible to Nominalize Quantum Mechanics
Descriptivism, Pretense, and the Frege-Russell Problems
Hesperus and Phosphorus
Fiction, Indifference, and Ontology
Moral fictionalism versus the rest
Moral Fictionalism
The Frege-Geach Problem and Kalderon's Moral Fictionalism
Fictional Characters
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,42 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2025 (12) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |