Fictionalism in Metaphysics

• The first collection exclusively devoted to this very hot topic
• Superb international line-up of contributors
• Represents the very latest thinking in current debates
• Ten specially written pieces and one reprinted classic by Walton
• The editor provides an ideal introduction to the topic

Readership: Scholars and students of philosophy

Edited by Mark Eli Kalderon, University College London

"Kalderon's collection of eleven papers, written by top philosophers in the field, represents the breadth and width of the topic... The papers are all of extremely high quality, and contain important original work." - Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

Introduction
1: Gideon Rosen: Problems in the history of fictionalism
2: Kendall Walton: Metaphor and prop oriented make-believe
3: Stephen Yablo: The myth of seven
4: Seahwa Kim: Modal fictionalism and analysis
5: James A. Woodbridge: Truth as a pretence
6: Frederick Kroon: Belief about nothing in particular
7: Daniel Nolan: Fictionalist attitudes about fictional matters
8: Cian Dorr: What we disagree about when we disagree about ontology
9: Richard Joyce: Moral fictionalism
10: David Lewis: Quasi-realism is fictionalism
11: Simon Blackburn: Quasi-realism no fictionalism