Conceivability and Possibility

Tamar Szabo Gendler, John Hawthorne (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

518 Seiten

2002
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-825090-6 (ISBN)

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

Tamar Szabo Gendler and John Hawthorne are Professors of Philosophy at Syracuse University.

1. Introduction ; 2. Modal Epistemology and the Rationalist Renaissance ; 3. Berkeley's Puzzle ; 4. Does Conceivability Entail Possibility? ; 5. Desire in Imagination ; 6. Essentialism versus Essentialism ; 7. The Varieties of Necessity ; 8. A Study in Model Deviance ; 9. On the Metaphysical Contingency of Laws of Nature ; 10. The Art of the Impossible ; 11. Reliability and the a Priori ; 12. What is it Like to be a Zombie? ; 13. The Conceivability of Naturalism ; 14. Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda

Erscheint lt. Verlag	25.7.2002
Zusatzinfo	numerous figures
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	151 x 228 mm
Gewicht	799 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Logik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie
ISBN-10	0-19-825090-8 / 0198250908
ISBN-13	978-0-19-825090-6 / 9780198250906
Zustand	Neuware