Routledge has published the edited volume on
Mental Fictionalism: Philosophical Explorations
(edited by Tamás Demeter, T. Parent, Adam Toon)
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.
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.
