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9780198250890

Conceivability and Possibility

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  • ISBN13:

    9780198250890

  • ISBN10:

    0198250894

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2002-10-03
  • Publisher: Clarendon Press

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Summary

The capacity to represent things to ourselves as possible plays a crucial role both in everyday thinking and in philosophical reasoning; this volume offers much-needed philosophical illumination of conceivability, possibility, and the relations between them.

Author Biography


Tamar Szabo Gendler is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Syracuse University and John Hawthorne is Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University.

Table of Contents

Contributors ix
Introduction: Conceivability and Possibility 1(70)
Tamar Szabo Gendler
John Hawthorne
Modal Epistemology and the Rationalist Renaissance
71(56)
George Bealer
Berkeley's Puzzle
127(18)
John Campbell
Does Conceivability Entail Possibility?
145(56)
David J. Chalmers
Desire in Imagination
201(22)
Gregory Currie
Essentialism versus Essentialism
223(30)
Michael Della Rocca
The Varieties of Necessity
253(30)
Kit Fine
A Study in Modal Deviance
283(26)
Gideon Rosen
On the Metaphysical Contingency of Laws of Nature
309(28)
Alan Sidelle
The Art of the Impossible
337(32)
Roy Sorensen
Reliability and the A Priori
369(16)
Ernest Sosa
What is it Like to be a Zombie?
385(16)
Robert Stalnaker
The Conceivability of Naturalism
401(40)
Crispin Wright
Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda
441(52)
Stephen Yablo
Index 493

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