Conceivability and Possibility

Inbunden, Engelska, 2002

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2002-07-25
Mått:158 x 237 x 27 mm
Vikt:896 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:518
Förlag:OUP OXFORD
ISBN:9780198250890

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Filosofiska discipliner inom Filosofi och religion

Mer om författaren

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

Innehållsförteckning

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