Conceivability and Possibility

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New York: Oxford University Press (2002)
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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.

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BC199.P7.C66 2002

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0198250908   9780198250890   0198250894   9780198250906

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10.1093/mind/113.450.347
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Berkeley's puzzle.John Campbell
Essentialism versus Essentialism.Michael Della Rocca
Introduction.Tamar Szabo Gendler & John Hawthorne
Introduction: Conceivability and possibility.  (pages 1--70)Tamar Szabó Gendler & John Hawthorne
Modal Epistemology and the Rationalist Renaissance.  (pages 71-125)George Bealer
Does conceivability entail possibility.  (pages 145--200)David J. Chalmers
Desire in imagination.  (pages 201-221)Gregory Currie
Essentialism vs. essentialism.  (pages 223--252)Michael Della Rocca
Varieties of Necessity.  (pages 253-281)Kit Fine
A Study in.  (pages 283)Modal Deviance
A study in modal deviance.  (pages 283--307)Gideon Rosen
On the metaphysical contingency of laws of nature.  (pages 309--336)Alan Sidelle
The art of the impossible.  (pages 337--368)Roy Sorensen
Reliability and.  (pages 369)Ernest Sosa
Reliability and the a priori.  (pages 369--384)Ernest Sosa
What is it Like.  (pages 385)Robert Stalnaker
What is it like to be a zombie?  (pages 385--400)Robert Stalnaker
The conceivability of naturalism.  (pages 401--439)Crispin Wright
Coulda, woulda, shoulda.  (pages 441-492)Stephen Yablo

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