Conceivability and Possibility

TRAMA

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.

SOMMARIO

1 - Introduction2 - Modal Epistemology and the Rationalist Renaissance3 - Berkeley's Puzzle4 - Does Conceivability Entail Possibility?5 - Desire in Imagination6 - Essentialism versus Essentialism7 - The Varieties of Necessity8 - A Study in Model Deviance9 - On the Metaphysical Contingency of Laws of Nature10 - The Art of the Impossible11 - Reliability and the a Priori12 - What is it Like to be a Zombie?13 - The Conceivability of Naturalism14 - Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda

AUTORE

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

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780198250890
• Dimensioni: 237 x 27.7 x 158 mm Ø 896 gr
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Illustration Notes: numerous figures
• Pagine Arabe: 518