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 much-needed 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. The term 'modal epistemology' may be understood in three ways.