Mental Fictionalism
Philosophical Explorations
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 29 April 2022
- ISBN 9780367548957
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages384 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Weight 453 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 1 Illustrations, black & white; 1 Halftones, black & white 468
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Short description:
This is the first book dedicated to exploring mental fictionalism. Featuring contributions from established authors as well as up-and-coming scholars in this burgeoning field, it is essential reading for advanced undergraduates, postgraduates and professionals alike.
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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 about mental states, we are not formulating hypotheses about people?s inner machinery. Instead, we simply talk "as if" people had certain inner states, such as beliefs or desires, in order to make sense of their behaviour.
This is the first book dedicated to exploring mental fictionalism. Featuring contributions from established authors as well as up-and-coming scholars in this burgeoning field, the book reveals the exciting potential of a fictionalist approach to the mind, as well as the challenges it faces. In doing so, it offers a fresh perspective on foundational debates in the philosophy of mind, such as the nature of mental states and folk psychology, as well as hot topics in the field, such as embodied cognition and mental representation.
Mental Fictionalism: Philosophical Explorations is essential reading for advanced undergraduates, postgraduates and professionals alike.
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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
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