TY  - BOOK
AU  - Armour-Garb, Bradley
AU  - Woodbridge, James A.
TI  - Pretense and pathology: philosophical fictionalism and its applications 
SN  - 9781316648261
U1  - 121 
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Fictions, Theory of
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - This book examines and assesses various fictionalist approaches in philosophy, demonstrating how a specific form of philosophical fictionalism can address a broad array of traditional philosophical puzzles and paradoxes. It will appeal to scholars and advanced students in fields such as the philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, logic, epistemology, linguistics, and metaphysics
ER  -