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Pretense and Pathology
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Artikel-Nr:
9781107028272
Veröffentl:
2015
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Erscheinungsdatum:
10.07.2015
Seiten:
286
Autor:
Bradley Armour-Garb
Gewicht:
570 g
Format:
235x157x20 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Bradley Armour-Garb is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University at Albany, State University of New York and a Fellow of Wolfson College, University of Oxford. He is co-editor of and a contributor to several books including The Law of Non-Contradiction: New Philosophical Essays (2004), Deflationism and Paradox (2005), and Deflationary Truth (2005). He is also the editor of and a contributor to The Relevance of the Liar (forthcoming).
This book provides a new philosophical fictionalism to solve traditional paradoxes and puzzles in the philosophy of language and metaphysics.
Preface; 1. Philosophical fictionalism; 2. Semantic pretense-involving fictionalism and existence-talk; 3. Propositional realism and a SPIF account of proposition-talk; 4. T-deflationism and a SPIF account of truth-talk; 5. Diagnosing and treating the Liar Paradox and other apparent alethic pathologies; 6. SPIF accounts of reference-talk and predicate-satisfaction-talk and apparent non-alethic semantic pathology; 7. Extensions and objections; Bibliography; Index.