Tamar Szabo Gendler / John Hawthorne (eds.)

Conceivability and Possibility

Herausgeber: Gendler, Tamar Szabo; Hawthorne, John

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 518
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Oktober 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 898g
• ISBN-13: 9780198250890
• ISBN-10: 0198250894
• Artikelnr.: 21636573

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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