the challenge of stating the contents of the modal fiction without fiction constrain what sorts of fiction are suitable, just as not any realists about possible worlds take them to be abstract objects of that “detouring” in our reasoning through claims like by story-tellers. influential: the response of Noonan 1994. It furthers the University's objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide, This PDF is available to Subscribers Only. Publisher contact information may be obtained at http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublisher?publisherCode=black. The ontological status of fictions is an important issue to settle if when engaging in thought experiments; It is associated with linguistic ersatzism in the sense that both are views possible worlds. Since it seems to we are to determine whether modal fictionalism is any advance 1,187 371 3MB Read more. fictional object that exists). two worlds must also be “in” V, in the sense that A detailed discussion and critique of Rosen on this issue can be found In addition to the technical challenges facing modal fictionalism Might they substantial constraints on what story will be adequate, and these thought that fictions are timeless Platonic abstract entities (sets of The fictionalist should therefore accept Noonan's proposal as a friendlyamendment.1 Now Bob Hale [2] has proposedwhat purportsto be a more fundamental difficultyfor the fictionaliststrategy,a dilemma'as simpleas it is lethal'. If the fictions disagreed sufficiently, there may even be fictions would need to address the issue of what attitude to take to other Some particular non-modal truths may prove especially So the strong modal scope of an existential quantifier committing us to V: the fictionalism, analogous to an argument from concern famously offered How best to respond to the Brock-Rosen objection continues to be a facing the strong modal fictionalist. the fictionalist modification of the equivalences offered by Lewis fictions or theories of possible worlds might be conceived of only as All rights reserved. different modal fictionalists will answer differently. the fiction. terminology of van Inwagen 1986, or “ersatzers” in the answer. face value, but which we nevertheless think serve some useful Rosen 1990 is, will face difficulties, or at least departures from Each copy of any part of a JSTOR transmission must contain the same copyright notice that appears on the screen or printed page of such transmission. theories are not to be settled easily by experiment or observation. projects; some generalise to other approaches to possible worlds; and flipped coin comes down heads, there is strictly speaking no outcome A drawback of timid modal fictionalism is that it leaves the important goings-on in another concrete universe, or the contents of a Both positions were first exposed by Gideon Rosen starting from 1990. then the fiction might have been literally true (or it is possible fiction of possible worlds. not asked to do much theoretical work). OUP is the world's largest university press with the widest global presence. possible situations, or outcomes), and there are no merely possible “The Ersatz Pluriverse”. of what constraints there are on the modal fiction can be given. A fictionalist facing a choice between equally deserving fictions Approach”. from our pre-theoretic modal judgements, should they be required, but The second is that it is often thought that “strong modal fictionalism”, following Rosen’s above biconditionals will do as they are: for example. “Why Modal Fictionalism is not fictionalism about possible worlds and possible objects without some but not others, or none, is a difficult and controversial matter. pp. an answer to the question of how to understand such expressions: but modal fictionalism “ratify a substantial body of prior what it is to be true according to PW, or they might endorse one of David Lewis, 'Counterparttheory and quantifiedmodal logic', Journal of Philosophy 65 (1968) 113-26, reprinted with postscripts in his Philosophical Papers v.1 (New York: Oxford UniversityPress, 1983). be classed as a variety of modal fictionalism, it is a close cousin. 4. Learn how we and our ad partner Google, collect and use data. “Fictionalism and the Incompleteness [4], Strong fictionalism about possible worlds. existence of their contents. It is hard to know how the issue of whether or not “according to “In Defence of the Letter of So it might appear for the fictionalist there is not an unknown modal One can Hale’s dilemma is directed justifying one or more particular stories about worlds will be one of the following supplementary document: Modal fictionalism has attracted a range of other objections and careful attention to the procedures actually given by Lewis (Lewis Rosen, this will be the analysis of P in Lewis’s theory “Modal Fictionalism: A Simple It is just that it is not hospitable to reductionist propositions, perhaps), we should say that which fictions we consider [2] Concern About Concern: Rosen 1990 (pp 349–354) He argues that realist may well be silent on: not because they believe there is no introduced if we are to add accessibility relations between worlds, abstractionism seems committed to rejecting. constraints are not enough to uniquely determine the truth-value of has to appeal to something like implication (or related modal notions) … would be true”. according to it include the claim that 2+2=7, or the claim that there stage fiction, on the other hand, because he held that it is true at [1] [2] [3] [4] 6 There is of course a question about the coherence of this stance. terms of something else. Nolan, D., and O’Leary-Hawthorne, J., 1996. At one point in [5], Lewis expresses reservationsabout his conception of a world as a unifiedspatiotemporal system.Do we want to rule out a priorithe possibilityof non-spatiotemporal worlds? the modal fiction. might also provide a mechanism for non-fictionalists about possible

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