Conceivability and Possibility

Informationen zum Autor Tamar Szabo Gendler and John Hawthorne are Professors of Philosophy at Syracuse University. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Tamar Szabo Gendler, John Hawthorne: Introduction 2: George Bealer: Modal Epistemology and the Rationalist Renaissance 3: John Campbell: Berkeley's Puzzle 4: David Chalmers: Does Conceivability Entail Possibility? 5: Gregory Currie: Desire in Imagination 6: Michael Della Rocca: Essentialism versus Essentialism 7: Kit Fine: The Varieties of Necessity 8: Gideon Rosen: A Study in Model Deviance 9: Alan Sidelle: On the Metaphysical Contingency of Laws of Nature 10: Roy Sorensen: The Art of the Impossible 11: Ernest Sosa: Reliability and the a Priori 12: Robert Stalnaker: What is it Like to be a Zombie? 13: Crispin Wright: The Conceivability of Naturalism 14: Stephen Yablo: Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda

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• Authors: Tamar Szabo (Syracuse University Gendler, Tamar Szabo Hawthorne Gendler
• Assisted by: Tamar Szabo Gendler (Editor), Gendler Tamar Szabo (Editor), John Hawthorne (Editor), Hawthorne John (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.07.2002
• EAN: 9780198250906
• ISBN: 978-0-19-825090-6
• No. of pages: 518
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Humanities (general); PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, PHILOSOPHY / Logic, PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Philosophy: logic, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge