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Mental Fictionalism Philosophical Explorations

384 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

384 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

384 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

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What are mental states? When we talk about people’s beliefs or desires, are we talking about what is happening inside their heads? If so, might cognitive science show that we are wrong? Might it turn out that mental states do not exist? Mental fictionalism offers a new approach to these longstanding questions about the mind. Its core idea is that mental states are useful fictions. When we talk... Read more

Introduction: What is Mental Fictionalism? Tamás Demeter, T. Parent, and Adam Toon

Part 1: Proposals

1. Mental Fictionalism Meg Wallace

2. Fictionalism and Intentionality Adam Toon

3. A Rylean Mental Fictionalism William Lycan

4. A Mental Fictionalism Worthy of Its Name Tamás Demeter

5. Enactive-Ecological Fictionalism: An Eliminativism that Works Adrian Downey

Part 2: Challenges

6. The Sellarsian Fate for Mental Fictionalism László Kocsis and Krisztián Pete

7. What We Talk about When We Talk about Mental States Zoe Drayson

8. A Brickhouse Defence for Folk Psychology: How to Defeat ‘Big Bad Wolf’ Eliminativism Dan Hutto

9. Mental Fictionalism: The Costly Combination of Magic and the Mind Amber Ross

10. The Pragmatic Approach to Fictive Utterances and its Consequences for Mental Fictionalism Miklós Márton and János Tőzsér

Part 3: Explorations

11. I Think; Therefore, I am a Fiction T. Parent

12. Psychiatric Fictionalism Sam Wilkinson

13. Three Kinds of Fictionalism about Knowledge-Talk Julianne Chung

14. Mental Fictionalism: A Foothold Amid Deflationary Collapse Meg Wallace

Part 4: Alternatives

15. Mental Fact and Mental Fiction Tim Crane and Katalin Farkas

16. Interpretivism and Mental Fictionalism Bruno Mölder

17. Rejecting the Metaphysics of the Mental: An Advertisement for a Conceptual-Cartographical Exploration of our ‘Folk-Psychological’ Practices Julia Tanney

18. Am I a Fictionalist? Daniel C. Dennett.

Index