Conceivability and Possibility by Tamar Szabo Gendler (Syracuse University, New York)
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Conceivability and Possibility
Conceivability and Possibility
Summary
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.
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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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CIN0198250908G
9780198250906
0198250908
Conceivability and Possibility by Tamar Szabo Gendler (Syracuse University, New York)
Used - Good
Paperback
Oxford University Press
2002-07-25
518
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