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  title info:
    non sort: A
    title: critical introduction to fictionalism
  name:
    name part: Kroon, Fred
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Brock, Stuart
    name part: 1968-
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: McKeown-Green, Arthur Jonathan
    name part: 1963-2015
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2019
    copyright date: 2019
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 265 pages ; 23 cm.
  abstract: "A Critical Introduction to Fictionalism provides a clear and comprehensive understanding of an important alternative to realism. Drawing on questions from ethics, the philosophy of religion, art, mathematics, logic and science, this is a complete exploration of how fictionalism contrasts with other non-realist doctrines and motivates influential fictionalist treatments across a range of philosophical issues. Defending and criticizing influential as well as emerging fictionalist approaches, this accessible overview discuses physical objects, universals, God, moral properties, numbers and other fictional entities. Where possible it draws general lessons about the conditions under which a fictionalist treatment of a class of items is plausible. Distinguishing fictionalism from other views about the existence of items, it explains the central features of this key metaphysical topic. Featuring an historical survey, definitions of key terms, characterisations of important subdivisions, objections and problems for fictionalism, and contemporary fictionalist treatments of several issues, A Critical Introduction to Fictionalism is a valuable resource for students of metaphysics as well as students of philosophical methodology. It is the only book of its kind"--
  table of contents: Fiction and metaphysics -- Existence examined -- Supplementing existence : objectivity, mind independence and realism -- Relegating existence : prefixing, prefacing, reducing and nonfactualism -- From fiction to fictionalism -- Fictionalism : a confusing past and a divided present -- Fictionalism about fiction -- Fictionalism : where, why, how? -- Objections to fictionalism -- Close cousins.
  note: Frederick Kroon, Stuart Brock and Jonathan McKeown-Green.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Fictions, Theory of
  subject:
    topic: Reality
  subject:
    topic: Metaphysics
  subject:
    topic: Fictions, Theory of
  subject:
    topic: Metaphysics
  subject:
    topic: Reality
  classification: BC199.F5 K76 2019
  classification: 121
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    name:
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    origin info:
      publisher: London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2018
    identifier: (DLC) 2018042440
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  record info:
    record content source: LBSOR/DLC
    record creation date: 180809
    record change date: 20190228111921.0
    record identifier: in00004004971
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng