IS MODAL FICTIONALISM ARTIFICIAL?

• DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0114.2011.01411.x
• Publication Date: 2011-11-02T09:51:54Z
• Authors: RICHARD WOODWARD
• Keywords: Complaint; Worry

Abstract This article examines a popular complaint against the fictionalist account of possible objects bruited by Gideon Rosen. is that modal fictionalism is, in some sense or other, hopelessly artificial . I shall separate two different strands to this worry and examine each turn. As we see, neither strand objection intractable.