Saving Mental Fictionalism from Cognitive Collapse1 Latest draft July 8, 2014 Meg Wallace – University of Kentucky – megbwallace@gmail.com Abstract: Mental fictionalism maintains that: (i) folk psychology (FP) is a radically false theory, but (ii) we should nonetheless keep using it, because it is useful, convenient, or otherwise beneficial to Select the purchase This thesis is not available on this repository until the author agrees to make it public. H�tU�n�@��+�K�d�̌��a�VZ.+�B�$�!�^���옸�8����U\s�9���;8��N�H�h�0k��~,�`(�� ���'#����O�g?��L ���"�R�v��6���ۦy������ʬ�q��T�s.%�ɨ\� K�w�dk�1/��y��#R�A�:fLBcz�B���C o���eS�Z��)��[y��މc�@ə4��`�f����!���!��=��v� C�H&i<3V[C(�:l�e��c�Κ�P�w�Yi�=4ۡ/7ajY��tQU�|�J��Yn�+��u����x���ӧ,�35��)˥�%q{4�f̆������vE����mCVa�,R=����X��j�noo�~.����#�~�~�},�2�& Ӄ�)wL��B��ܠ�B�sl��#铖�dqh��-�)5�*�/��#��åc���WA%LO͉T�p}%����+V0�y�eygeBögh�Z9G��%̸D*��Bp9���w��r1� 錤�o� ����s�f��X��L�"{�r�9���nC�O�F�tȸ �, BӶ����*�m�v�R�Y�t�J�9sFЉ��2/����o�u:�y$�zWV��igy�a2�'�b���XO«�&z.��p-�����+3:@ϸ�V�����eE��7#�dJiO�����|,9v����'�]�)s�F{&�a()Q�/|Ϟ�� ��� endstream endobj 1043 0 obj<>stream 96, No. JSTOR is part of ITHAKA, a not-for-profit organization helping the academic community use digital technologies to preserve the scholarly record and to advance research and teaching in sustainable ways.

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Mental fictionalism is the view that, even if mental states do not exist, it is useful to talk as if they do. It helped to professionalize philosophy as an academic discipline in the United States by publishing philosophers such as Lewis White Beck, John Dewey, Gottlob Frege, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Sidney Hook, C.I. %�gOr�I��*���dwʁ��N��^���� Discover our research outputs and cite our work. However, This thesis is not available on this repository until the author agrees to make it public.

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Some historically especially important precursors to modernfictionalism are Jeremy Bentham (see Ogden 1932), who defended theview that many entities referred to in ordinary discourse are“fictitious”, Hans Vaihinger, with his philosophy of the“as if”, and, specifically in the moral case, FriedrichNietzsche, whose view has been argued to amount to moral fictionalism.Voltaire’s famous “If God did not exist, it would benecessary to invent him” can be seen as expressing afictionalist stance toward theism. Fictionalism of various sorts has been proposed, endorsed, and discussed;5 it has its fair share of fans and foes.6 Yet despite fictionalism’s recent surge in popularity, there is a noticeable gap in the literature. To access this article, please, Vol. 0000006504 00000 n Bács 2018, Smythe 2017, Toon 2016, Wallace 2016). Thank you for reporting this event. Volume 96, Issue 4, October 2013 Mental Fictionalism. What is Mental Fictionalism? 0000010116 00000 n Conferences, CFPs, and seminars in philosophy. Some features of this site may not work without it. 0000001559 00000 n

In the second part, we present the various versions of fictionalism and their main sources of motivation. 1. © 2013 Oxford University Press 0000008207 00000 n The planned talks cover not only the nature of fiction, the mental, and folk psychology--but also a number of related topics such as mental illness, the self, embodiment, ontological commitment, reason-giving, and knowledge-attributions. !pjf��r���@����� � Q�e �p/�ӑf(����7���иc��7I�&@ ��DAG �-p�Z.} As a result, each issue  is a collected anthology of continuing interest. %%EOF However, we need to distinguish how the realist or the antirealist approaches the ontological-metaphysical issues from how he approaches discourse. 0000005454 00000 n Lewis, Ernst Mach, Charles Sanders Peirce, Hilary Putnam, Willard Van Orman Quine, Bertrand Russell, and Gregory Vlastos. SAVING MENTAL FICTIONALISM FROM COGNITIVE COLLAPSE Meg Wallace Abstract: Mental fictionalism maintains that: (1) folk psychology is a false theory, but (2) we should nonetheless keep using it, because it is useful, convenient, or other-wise beneficial to do so.

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