{"product_id":"metaphysics-sophistry-illusion-c-balaguer-9780198868361","title":"Metaphysics, Sophistry, \u0026 Illusion C","description":"\u003cem\u003eMetaphysics, Sophistry, and Illusion\u003c\/em\u003e does two things. First, it introduces a novel kind of non-factualist view, and argues that we should endorse views of this kind in connection with a wide class of metaphysical questions, most notably, the abstract-object question and the composite-object question. (More specifically, Mark Balaguer argues that there's no fact of the matter whether there are any such things as abstract objects or composite objects--or material objects of any other kind.) Second, \u003cem\u003eMetaphysics, Sophistry, and Illusion\u003c\/em\u003e explains how these non-factualist views fit into a general anti-metaphysical view called neo-positivism, and explains how we could argue that neo-positivism is true. Neo-positivism is the view that every metaphysical question decomposes into some subquestions--call them Q1, Q2, Q3, etc.--such that, for each of these subquestions, one of the following three anti-metaphysical views is true of it: non-factualism, or scientism, or metaphysically innocent modal-truth-ism. These three views can be defined (very roughly) as follows: non-factualism about a question Q is the view that there's no fact of the matter about the answer to Q. Scientism about Q is the view that Q is an ordinary empirical-scientific question about some contingent aspect of physical reality, and Q can't be settled with an a priori philosophical argument. And metaphysically innocent modal-truth-ism about Q is the view that Q asks about the truth value of a modal sentence that's metaphysically innocent in the sense that it doesn't say anything about reality and, if it's true, isn't made true by reality\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Balaguer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0198868367\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198868361\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Academic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/26\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.40w x 1.10d","brand":"Balaguer","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47202625192191,"sku":"9780198868361","price":110.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_bb27a20a-d95f-483f-8f70-9838a1df6a58.jpg?v=1756832916","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/metaphysics-sophistry-illusion-c-balaguer-9780198868361","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}