Mental Fictionalism: Philosophical Explorations [Paperback]

Introduction: What is Mental Fictionalism? Tam?s 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 Tam?s Demeter  5. Enactive-Ecological Fictionalism: An Eliminativism that Works Adrian Downey  Part 2: Challenges  6. The Sellarsian Fate for Mental Fictionalism L?szl? Kocsis and Kriszti?n 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 Mikl?s M?rton and J?nos TQzs?r  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 M?lder  17. Rejecting the Metaphysics of the Mental: An Advertisement for a Conceptual-Cartographical Exploration of our Folk-Psychological Practices