Conceivability

“Functionalism and the Argument from Conceivability”.

Functionalism Levin, Janet 2009

Alanen, L. (1990), ˜Descartes, Conceivability and Logical Modality™ in T. Horowitz and G.J. Massey (eds.), T.ought Experiments in Science and Philosophy, Savage: Rowman &

Medieval Theories of Modality Knuuttila, Simo 2008

Conceivability-based accounts of the epistemology of modality hold that conceivability is either the fundamental source of our modal knowledge or that it is of central importance in our modalizing behavior.

The Epistemology of Modality Vaidya, Anand 2007

Conceivability is an epistemic notion, they say, while possibility is a metaphysical one: ˜It is false that if one can in principle conceive that P, then it is logically possible that P;

Zombies Kirk, Robert 2006

“Conceivability, possibility, and the mind-body problem.”

Consciousness Van Gulick, Robert 2004

Conceivability, therefore, as a test of truth, is in this particular case of no assignable degree of value; for as the entities to which it is applied are respectively the highest known abstractions of subjective and objective existence, the test of conceivability is neutralised by directly encountering the inconceivable relation that subsists between subject and object.

A Candid Examination of Theism George John Romanes 1871

Conceivability or inconceivability, he tells us, are usually dependent on association; and it is quite possible that, under other associations, we might be able to conceive, and therefore to believe, anything short of the direct contradiction that the same thing is and is not.

The Philosophy of the Conditioned Henry Longueville Mansel 1845

Conceivability, Identity, and the Explanatory Gap, but they are essentially what he presented this year as well: hold that every thing and event in the universe is physical in every respect.

Integral Options Cafe WH 2010

“Does Conceivability Entail Possibility?”, in Gendler and Hawthorne 2002,

Functionalism Levin, Janet 2009

“Reliability Connections Between Conceivability and Inconceivability”.

The Epistemology of Modality Vaidya, Anand 2007