Conceivability And Possibility

The Capacity To Represent Things To Ourselves As Possible Plays A Crucial Role Both In Everyday Thinking And In Philosophical Reasoning. This Volume Offers Philosophical Illumination Of Conceivability, Possibility, And The Relations Between Them. Modal Epistemology And The Rationalist Renaissance / George Bealer -- Berkeley's Puzzle / John Campbell -- Does Conceivability Entail Possibility? / David J. Chalmers -- Desire In Imagination / Gregory Currie -- Essentialsim Versus Essentialism / Michael Della Rocca -- The Varieties Of Necessity / Kit Fine -- A Study In Modal Deviance / Gideon Rosen -- On The Metaphysical Contingency Of Laws Of Nature / Alan Sidelle -- The Art Of The Impossible / Roy Sorensen -- Reliability And The A Priori / Ernest Sosa -- What Is It Like To Be A Zombie? / Robert Stalnaker -- The Conceivability Of Naturalism / Crispin Wright -- Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda / Stephen Yablo. Edited By Tamar Szabó Gendler, John Hawthorne. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.