Conceivability and Possibility

by Tamar Szabo Gendler (Editor), John Hawthorne (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198250890
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	10/03/2002
Pages:	518
Product dimensions:	9.21(w) x 6.14(h) x 1.13(d)

About the Author

Tamar Szabo Gendler is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Syracuse University and John Hawthorne is Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction, Tamar Szabo Gendler, John Hawthorne2. Modal Epistemology and the Rationalist Renaissance, George Bealer3. Berkeley's Puzzle, John Campbell4. Does Conceivability Entail Possibility?, David Chalmers5. Desire in Imagination, Gregory Currie6. Essentialism versus Essentialism, Michael Della Rocca7. The Varieties of Necessity, Kit Fine8. A Study in Model Deviance, Gideon Rosen9. On the Metaphysical Contingency of Laws of Nature, Alan Sidelle10. The Art of the Impossible, Roy Sorensen11. Reliability and the a Priori, Ernest Sosa12. What is it Like to be a Zombie?, Robert Stalnaker13. The Conceivability of Naturalism, Crispin Wright14. Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda, Stephen Yablo