Mental Fictionalism

Introduction: What is Mental Fictionalism? Tamas 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 Tamas Demeter 5. Enactive-Ecological Fictionalism: An Eliminativism that Works Adrian Downey Part 2: Challenges 6. The Sellarsian Fate for Mental Fictionalism Laszlo Kocsis and Krisztian 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 Miklos Marton and Janos Tozser 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 Moelder 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. Index