Contributors BiographiesNancy CartwrightNancy Cartwright is Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method at the London School of Economics and in the Department of Philosophy and in Science Studies at the University of California, San Diego. For many years she directed LSE's Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science and is currently president of the Philosophy of Science Association and immediate past president of the American Phi-losophical Association, Pacific Division. Her early work was in philosophy of physics at Stanford; since going to LSE she has fo-cused in the philosophy of social and economic science and most recently on evidence for evidence-based policy. For 7 years she helped lead teams at LSE studying modeling in natural and social science.She is a fellow of the British Academy, of the German Academy of Natural Science, and of the American Philosophical Society, a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, and a member of the Ameri-can Academy of Arts and Sciences. Robert HowellRobert Howell is professor of philosophy at the University at Al-bany, SUNY (State University of New York at Albany), and a graduate of the University of Michigan (Ph.D.) and Kenyon Col-lege (A.B.). He has taught also at the University of Illinois (Ur-bana), Stanford University, and, as a visitor, at The Johns Hopkins University and Moscow State University. His research has been supported by the American Council of Learned Societies, the Na-tional Endowment for the Humanities, the Institute for Advanced Study, and the Fulbright program. He has published essays on the semantics and metaphysics of fiction and on the ontology of art. In addition, he works in the history of modern philosophy, focusing on Kant's theoretical philosophy. (See especially Kant's Transcen-dental Deduction, 1992.) The Kantian tradition has deep relations to recent work on fiction - some well-known, some unexpected - which he hopes to explore in future research.Amie ThomassonAmie Thomasson is Professor and Parodi Senior Scholar in Aes-thetics at the University of Miami. She is the author of Ordinary Objects (Oxford University Press, 2007), Fiction and Metaphysics (Cambridge University Press, 1999), and co-editor (with David W. Smith) of Phenomenology and Philosophy of Mind (Oxford Uni-versity Press, 2005). In addition she has published numerous book chapters and articles on topics in metaphysics, metaontology, fic-tion, philosophy of mind and phenomenology, the philosophy of art, and social ontology. She is currently working on problems regarding modality, existence questions, and the methods of meta-physics.email: thomasson@miami.edu website: sites.google.com/site/amiethomasson/ Mark Balaguer Mark Balaguer is professor of philosophy at California State Uni-versity, Los Angeles. He is the author of *Platonism and Anti-Platonism in Mathematics* (Oxford University Press, 1998), *Free Will as an Open Scientific Problem* (MIT Press, 2010), and nu-merous articles in the areas of metaphysics, philosophy of mathe-matics, philosophy of language, and metaethics.Otávio Bueno Otávio Bueno is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Miami. He has held visiting professorships or fellowships at Princeton University, University of York (in the UK), University of Leeds, and at the University of São Paulo. His research concentrates in philosophy of science, philosophy of mathematics, and philosophy of logic. He has published widely in journals and collections, including: Noûs, Mind, Philosophy of Science, Synthese, Journal of Philosophical Logic, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Analysis, Erkenntnis, History and Philosophy of Logic, and Logique et Analyse. He is the author of two books, Constructive Empiricism: A Restatement and Defense (CLE, 1999), and Elements of Paraconsistent Set Theory (CLE, 1998; with Newton da Costa and Jean-Yves Béziau). And he

Content PAGE Nancy Cartwright Foreword 09 John WoodsPreface 21Literary FictionsI. Robert Howell Literary Fictions, Real and Unreal 27II. Amie ThomassonFiction, Existence and Indeterminacy 109Fictions in MathematicsIII. Mark Balaguer Fictionalism, Mathematical Facts and Logical/Modal Facts 149IV. Otávio Bueno Can Set Theory be Nominalized? A Fictionalist Response 191Fictions in ScienceV. Mauricio Suárez Fictions, Inference, and Realism 225VI. Roman Frigg Fiction and Science 247Fictions in MetaphysicsVII. Jody Azzouni Partial Ontic Fictionalism 289VIII. Alexis Burgess Metaphysics as Make-Believe:Confessions of a Reformed Fictionalist 325Theories of Fiction: Prospects for UnificationIX. John Woods and Alirio Rosales 345 Unifying the Fictional X. Giovanni Tuzet How Fictions are Credible 389Index 421Abstracts 429Contributors Biographies 437

Noch vor 40 Jahren war die philosophische Analyse der Fiktion ein rudimentärer Zweig der Sprachphilosophie. Heute handelt es sich um ein sehr aktives Forschungsprogramm, dessen theoretische Berechtigung und beständige Kraft sowohl durch die Schnelligkeit seines Wachstums als auch durch das Anwachsen des Einfallsreichtums, die Kühnheit und - manche würden auch sagen - durch die Dynamik seiner Einsichten dokumentiert wird. Das frühe Werk an Fiktion beschränkte sich auf die Beziehungen der Sprachphilosophie und der analytischen Ästhetik. Heute ist der Rahmen breiter. Über seine Behandlung im Rahmen literarischer Semantik hinaus, ist der Begriff der Fiktion auch Gegenstand der Philosophie, der Mathematik und der Wissenschaftsphilosophie geworden, im Besonderen auch der Wissenschaft, die im Bereich der Metaphysik und Erkenntnistheorie, der Ethik und im Recht auf Modellen basiert. Eine zentrale Frage des gegenwärtigen Forschungsprogramms besteht darin: was geschieht, wenn Philosophen die Fiktion innerhalb nicht-literarischer Kontexte behandeln. Wird die Natur des Begriffes Fiktion in Frage gestellt? Kommt er ins Schwimmen? Ist es eine Fiktion eigener Art, die maßgeschneidert ist für ihre entsprechenden literarischen Anwendungen? Oder handelt es sich um einen generischen Begriff, für den die literarische und nicht-literarische Fiktion Instantiationen sind.Dies ist nur eine der vielen Fragen, die die gegenwärtige Forschung antreibt. "Fictions und Models" gibt diese Themen in die Hände hervorragender Autoren: Robert Howell, Amie Thomasson, Mark Balaguer, Otávio Bueno, Mauricio Suárez, Roman Frigg, Jody Azzouni, Alexis Burgess, Giovanni Tuzet, John Woods und dessen Koautor Alirio Rosales sind die Beiträger. Nancy Cartwright hat ein Vorwort beigesteuert. Das Ergebnis ist ein Buch von eindrucksvollem Reichtum, das das Forschungsprogramm über Fiktion in einer beachtlichen Weise vorantreibt.