Fictionalism and moore's paradox

Canadian Journal of Philosophy

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 293-307

  Szabó, Zoltán Gendler ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

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EID: 60949264934     PISSN: 00455091     EISSN: 19110820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00455091.2001.10717569     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. R. Carnap, 'Empiricism, Semantics, and Ontology, '
2. reprinted as a supplement to Meaning and Necessity: A Study in Semantics and Modal Logic (Chicago: University of Chicago Press 1956), 205-21
3. Cf. W. V. O. Quine, 'Two Dogmas of Empiricism', reprinted in From a Logical Point of View (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press 1961), 20-46, and
4. H. Putnam, 'Philosophy of Logic, '
5. reprinted in Mathematics, Matter, and Method: Philosophical Papers, vol. 1 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1979), 323-57.
6. Cf. H. Field, Science Without Numbers (Princeton: Princeton University Press 1980).
7. Cf. B. van Fraassen, The Scientific Image (Oxford: Clarendon 1980).
8. For a discussion of the tension between fictionalist nominalism and naturalism, see J. P. Burgess and G. Rosen, A Subject with No Object (Oxford: Clarendon 1997), esp. 214-25.
9. Cf. J. Melia, 'On What There Isn't', Analysis 55 (1995) 223-9;
10. M. Balaguer, 'A Fictionalist Account of the Indispensable Applications of Mathematics', Philosophical Studies 83(1996), 291-314;
11. M. Balaguer, Ptatonism and Anti-Platonism in Mathematics (Oxford: Oxford University Press 1998);
12. S. Yablo, 'Does Ontology Rest on a Mistake?' in Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, supp. vol. 72 (1998) 229-61;
13. S. Yablo, 'A Paradox of Existence', in A. J. Everett and T. Hofweber, eds., Empty Names, Fiction and the Puzzles of Non-Existence (Palo Alto: CSLI 2000).
14. Cf. J. Higginbotham, 'On Semantics', Linguistic Inquiry 16 (1983) 547-93.
15. The phrase and the example are from G. Berkeley, A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge, §51
16. in A. A. Luce and T. E. Jessop eds., Tlic Works of George Berkeley, Bishop of Cloyne, 9 vols. (London: Thomas Nelson and Sons 1948-57).
17. Cf. G. E. Moore, 'A Replv to my Critics', in P. A. Schlipp ed., The Philosophy of G. E. Moore (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press 1942), 542-3
18. G. E. Moore, 'Moore's Paradox, '
19. originally untitled manuscript in T. Baldwin ed., G. E. Moore: Selected Writings (London: Routledge 1993), 207.
20. Cf. G. E. Moore, 'Moore's Paradox', 207.
21. Cf. P. Grice 'Logic and Conversation', in Studies in the Ways of Words (Cambridge, MA: Harvard 1989), 30;
22. and P. Grice, 'Further Notes on Logic and Conversation', 41.
23. Cf. Yablo, 'A Paradox of Existence.'