PHIL 740

Metaphysics 1


Please note: this is archived course information from 2014 for PHIL 740.

Description

Discussion of selected topics in metaphysics.

Fictionalism about a certain discourse is a variety of anti-realism that maintains that it is worth engaging in the discourse even though the discourse should be regarded as substantially false. (Thus moral fictionalists think that it is worth engaging in moral discourse even though there are no objective moral properties, mathematical fictionalists think it is worth doing mathematics even though there are no numbers, and so on.) The course looks at some precursors of modern fictionalism, and considers the scope and prospects of this currently popular approach to metaphysics.

Availability 2014

Semester 1

Lecturer(s)

Lecturer(s) Professor Fred Kroon

Assessment


Points

PHIL 740: 15 points

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