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Conceivability and Possibility Tamar Szabo Gendler (Syracuse University, New York)

Conceivability and Possibility By Tamar Szabo Gendler (Syracuse University, New York)

Conceivability and Possibility by Tamar Szabo Gendler (Syracuse University, New York)

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Topics include: modal epistemology and the rationalist renaissance; does conceivability entail possibility?; essentialism versus essentialism; the varieties of necessity; the metaphysical contingency of laws of nature; reliability and the a priori; and the conceivability of naturalism.

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Conceivability and Possibility by Tamar Szabo Gendler (Syracuse University, New York)

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.

About Tamar Szabo Gendler (Syracuse University, New York)

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

Table of Contents

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

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NPB9780198250890
9780198250890
0198250894
Conceivability and Possibility by Tamar Szabo Gendler (Syracuse University, New York)
Tamar Szabo Gendler (Syracuse University, New York)
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Hardback
Oxford University Press
2002-07-25
518
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