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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
