Conceivability and Possibility

Tamar Szabo Gendler, John Hawthorne (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

518 Seiten

2002
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-825089-0 (ISBN)

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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.

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

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

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.8.2002
Zusatzinfo	numerous figures
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	158 x 237 mm
Gewicht	896 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Logik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie
ISBN-10	0-19-825089-4 / 0198250894
ISBN-13	978-0-19-825089-0 / 9780198250890
Zustand	Neuware