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Author : Tamar Gendler
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 9780198250906
Total Pages : 507 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (59 download)
Download or read book Conceivability and Possibility written by Tamar Gendler and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2002 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: to follow
Author : Christine Weigel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (523 download)
Download or read book On the Relationship Between Conceivability and Possibility written by Christine Weigel and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tamar Szabo Gendler
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 0191591866
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book Conceivability and Possibility written by Tamar Szabo Gendler and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 2002-07-25 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Perry
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262661355
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (613 download)
Download or read book Knowledge, Possibility, and Consciousness written by John Perry and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Physicalism is the idea that if everything that goes on is physical, our consciousness and feelings must also be physical. This book defends a view called antecedent physicalism.
Author : Benedikt Paul Göcke
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137412828
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)
Download or read book A Theory of the Absolute written by Benedikt Paul Göcke and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-09-29 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Theory of the Absolute develops a worldview that is opposed to the dominant paradigm of physicalism and atheism. It provides powerful arguments for the existence of the soul and the existence of the Absolute. It shows that faith is not in contradiction to reason.
Author : Anders Berglund
Publisher : University of Iceland Press
ISBN 13 : 9789173058612
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (586 download)
Download or read book From Conceivability to Possibility written by Anders Berglund and published by University of Iceland Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Vesa Hirvonen
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047409671
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)
Download or read book Mind and Modality written by Vesa Hirvonen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2006-05-01 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers a wide-ranging and profound collection of essays on philosophical psychology and conceptions of modality from antiquity to the present day, with some essays on the philosophy of religion as well.
Author : Tamar Gendler
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199589763
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)
Download or read book Intuition, Imagination, and Philosophical Methodology written by Tamar Gendler and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-12-09 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tamar Gendler draws together in this book a series of essays in which she investigates philosophical methodology, which is now emerging as a central topic of philosophical discussions. Three intertwined themes run through the volume: imagination, intuition and philosophical methodology. Each of the chapters focuses, in one way or another, on how we engage with subject matter that we take to be imaginary. This theme is explored in a wide range of cases, including scientific thought experiments, early childhood pretense, thought experiments concerning personal identity, fictional emotions, self-deception, Gettier cases, and the general relation of conceivability to possibility. Each of the chapters explores, in one way or another, the implications of this for how thought experiments and appeals to intuition can serve as mechanisms for supporting or refuting scientific or philosophical claims. And each of the chapters self-consciously exhibits a particular philosophical methodology: that of drawing both on empirical findings from contemporary psychology, and on classic texts in the philosophical tradition (particularly the work of Aristotle and Hume.) By exploring and exhibiting the fruitfulness of these interactions, Gendler promotes the value of engaging in such cross-disciplinary conversations in illuminating philosophical issues.
Author : Manuel Garcia-Carpintero
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019927195X
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)
Download or read book Two-Dimensional Semantics written by Manuel Garcia-Carpintero and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-04-06 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to two-dimensional semantics, the meaning of an expression involves two different "dimensions": one dimension involves reference and truth-conditions of a familiar sort, while the other dimension involves the way that reference and truth-conditions depend on the external world (for example, reference and truth-conditions might be held to depend on which individuals and substances are present in the world, or on which linguistic conventions are in place). A number ofdifferent two-dimensional frameworks have been developed, and these have been applied to a number of fundamental problems in philosophy: the nature of communication, the relation between the necessary and the a priori, the role of context in assertion, Frege's distinction between sense and reference, thecontents of thought, and the mind-body problem.Manuel Garcia-Carpintero and Josep Macia present a selection of new essays by an outstanding international team, shedding fresh light both on foundational issues regarding two-dimensional semantics and on its specific applications. The volume will be the starting-point for future work on this approach to issues in philosophy of language, epistemology, and metaphysics.
Author : John P. Wright
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719008825
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (88 download)
Download or read book The Sceptical Realism of David Hume written by John P. Wright and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 560 pages
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Download or read book The Relativity of Conceivability written by and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I consider arguments that purportedly have force in favor of conceiva-bility skepticism and give responses to them that neutralize or refute them. Both while and after doing so, I lay the foundations of my own positive view of how we can access modality via conceivability under-stood in a particular way. The result is a view of the rationality and relativity of conceivability that not only makes sense of common prac-tice but also resolves all modal discrepancies in accordance with the principle of simplicity. In chapter one, I introduce some key issues and take on Peter van Inwagen's argument that since conceiving demands that the conceiver is able to understand how the laws of nature would work in the relevant scenario, and since we could never do that adequately, no one can conceive of anything. I argue that this is based on assumptions regarding how complex the laws of nature must be and that van Inwagen is not justified in such modal assumptions given his own views. In chapter two, I primarily take on M. Oreste Fiocco's assertion that no "plausible" definition of `conceivability' can support belief in a proposition that is impossible, and I set forth a plethora of arguments to show that this criterion is utterly hopeless. I then conclude by exploring other arguments that a philosopher might contend justifies putting such a strict requirement on modal belief justification and I also find all of them to be without force. In chapter three, I take on Paul Tidman's concerns regarding the epistemic circularity of many definitions of conceivability and unpack a notion of the subjectivity of conceivability that is not epistemically circular as the foundation of my own view. In chapters three and four, I explain how the subjectivity of con-ceivability is rooted in the complex reasoning process that obtains in conceivers as they attempt to make sense of how the relevant proposition could be true. In doing so, I develop a deflationary view of conceivability such that a conceiver's subjective appearances are justified to the same extent as the conceiver's beliefs are from which the appearances emanate.
Author : Hans-Johann Glock
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780199252824
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (528 download)
Download or read book Strawson and Kant written by Hans-Johann Glock and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kant is generally regarded as the greatest modern philosopher. But that analytic philosophers treat him as a central voice in contemporary debates is largely due to Sir Peter Strawson, the most eminent philosopher living in Britain today. In this collection, leading Kant scholars and analytic philosophers, including Strawson himself, for the first time assess his relation to Kant. The essays raise questions about how philosophy should deal with its past, what kind of insights it can achieve, and whether we can have knowledge of an objective reality.
Author : Rupert Read
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134555288
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (345 download)
Download or read book The New Hume Debate written by Rupert Read and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-11 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Alastair Wilson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198846215
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)
Download or read book The Nature of Contingency written by Alastair Wilson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-01-30 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book defends a radical new theory of contingency as a physical phenomenon. Drawing on the many-worlds approach to quantum theory and cutting-edge metaphysics and philosophy of science, it argues that quantum theories are best understood as telling us about the space of genuine possibilities, rather than as telling us solely about actuality. When quantum physics is taken seriously in the way first proposed by Hugh Everett III, it provides the resources for a new systematic metaphysical framework encompassing possibility, necessity, actuality, chance, counterfactuals, and a host of related modal notions. Rationalist metaphysicians argue that the metaphysics of modality is strictly prior to any scientific investigation; metaphysics establishes which worlds are possible, and physics merely checks which of these worlds is actual. Naturalistic metaphysicians respond that science may discover new possibilities and new impossibilities. This book's quantum theory of contingency takes naturalistic metaphysics one step further, allowing that science may discover what it is to be possible. As electromagnetism revealed the nature of light, as acoustics revealed the nature of sound, as statistical mechanics revealed the nature of heat, so quantum physics reveals the nature of contingency.
Author : Mark Rowlands
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 113943098X
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book The Nature of Consciousness written by Mark Rowlands and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-10-11 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Nature of Consciousness, Mark Rowlands develops an innovative account of the nature of phenomenal consciousness, one that has significant consequences for attempts to find a place for it in the natural order. The most significant feature of consciousness is its dual nature: consciousness can be both the directing of awareness and that upon which awareness is directed. Rowlands offers a clear and philosophically insightful discussion of the main positions in this fast-moving debate, and argues that the phenomenal aspects of conscious experience are aspects that exist only in the directing of experience towards non-phenomenal objects, a theory that undermines reductive attempts to explain consciousness in terms of what is not conscious. His book will be of interest to a wide range of readers in the philosophy of mind and language, psychology and cognitive science.
Author : Irene Binini
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004470468
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Possibility and Necessity in the Time of Peter Abelard written by Irene Binini and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-10-11 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a major reassessment of Abelard’s modal logic and theory of modalities, and provides a comprehensive study of the 12th-century context in which his views originated and developed, by analysing many logical sources that are still unedited and mostly unexplored.
Author : Arthur David Smith
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674725042
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (747 download)
Download or read book Anselm’s Other Argument written by Arthur David Smith and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-10 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some commentators claim that Anselm’s writings contain a second independent “modal ontological argument” for God’s existence. A. D. Smith contends that although there is a second a priori argument in Anselm, it is not the modal argument. This “other argument” bears a striking resemblance to one that Duns Scotus would later employ.
