What motivates mental fictionalism? Mental fictionalists propose that we should continue to engage in truth-conditional discourse about the mind, even though we have reason to believe that the discourse lacks truthmakers. In Mind As ...

Zoe Drayson explores the motivation for #fictionalism about the mental, arguing that Toon’s positive argument seems to ontologically commit him to the types of mental states he is trying to deny doi.org/10.1080/0951... #vol38issue3 #philsky #philpsy
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Craig Bourne & Emily Caddick Bourne offer the first commentary, where they develop David Lewis’s notion of a quasi-miracle to suggest an alternative form of #fictionalism to Toon's doi.org/10.1080/0951... #vol39issue3 #philsky #philpsy
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Did you know that fictionalism is a philosophical view that discussing non-true possibilities can be useful? (Q1321529) #philosophy #fictionalism