Conceivability and Possibility

✍ Scribed by Tamar Szabó Gendler, John Hawthorne

• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 520
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Title Page......Page 1
Copyright......Page 4
Acknowledgements......Page 5
Contents......Page 7
Contributors......Page 9
Introduction: Conceivability and Possibility, T.SZ. GENDLER & J. HAWTHORNE......Page 11
1. Modal Epistemology and the Rationalist Renaissance, G. BEALER......Page 81
2. Berkeley's Puzzle, J. CAMPBELL......Page 137
3. Does Conceivability Entail Possibility? D.J. CHALMERS......Page 155
4. Desire in Imagination, G. CURRIE......Page 211
5. Essentialism versus Essentialism, M. DELLA ROCCA......Page 233
6. The Varieties of Necessity, K. FINE......Page 263
7. A Study in Modal Deviance, G. ROSEN......Page 293
8. On the Metaphysical Contingency of Laws of Nature, A. SIDELLE......Page 319
9. The Art of the Impossible, R. SORENSEN......Page 347
10. Reliability and the A Priori, E. SOSA......Page 379
11. What is it Like to be a Zombie? R. STALNAKER......Page 395
12. The Conceivability of Naturalism, C. WRIGHT......Page 411
13. Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda, S. YABLO......Page 451
A......Page 503
C......Page 504
D......Page 507
F......Page 508
I......Page 509
K......Page 510
M......Page 511
N......Page 512
P......Page 513
S......Page 515
T......Page 516
Z......Page 517