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Does the Conceivability of Zombies Entail Their Possibility? [PDF]
Organon F, 2020 According to the two-dimensional argument against materialism, developed by David Chalmers, the conceivability of zombies entails primary possibility, and the primary possibility of zombies entails further secondary possibility.
Karol Polcyn
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Mereology is not a Guide to (In)conceivability
Dialectica, 2022 A sophisticated version of the zombie argument due to David Chalmers runs roughly as follows: a zombie world is ideally primarily conceivable, and whatever is ideally primarily conceivable is primarily possible.
Mahmoud Morvarid
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Everything seems so settled here: The conceivability of post-Peircean biosemiotics
Sign Systems Studies, 2019 Theory change is a slow, tortuous process. Problems associated with how we communicate ideas and how these ideas are received by our peers become catalysts for change in how we ourselves perceive and sanction what the discipline is capable of doing. Some
Claudio J. Rodríguez Higuera
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ReligionsIn the ontological argument for the existence of God, Descartes famously argues that the idea of God is the idea of a perfect being. As such, the idea of God must combine all of the perfections.
Lucas Thorpe, Zübeyde Karadağ Thorpe
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Thought as a quasi-possibility
Интеллект. Инновации. Инвестиции, 2021 Modal logic determines a lot in modern metaphysics and ontology, which delve deeper and deeper into the realm of the possible, not limited to the analysis of reality.
D. V. Ankin
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Critique of Rene Descartes’ Conceivability Argument
International Journal of Arts, Humanities & Social Science, 2023 This paper first explains the difference between conceivability and metaphysical possibility from the perspective of possible worlds. Then, it introduces Saul Kripke’s view on the metaphysical necessity of identity, contributing to a premise in Descartes’
Chenghao Li
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Conceivability and Possibility — Conceivability as an Epistemic Guide to Possibility
, 2017 In this dissertation, I evaluate whether conceivability can be regarded as an epistemic guide to possibility.
Shuyi Feng
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Journal of Advances in Education and Philosophy, 2020 The objective of this paper is to defend the non-reductive thesis of phenomenal consciousness. This paper will give an overview of the arguments for the non-reductive explanation of phenomenal consciousness and justify why the reductionist approach is ...
Manas Kumar Sahu
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Margaret Cavendish on conceivability, possibility, and the case of colours
British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 2021 Throughout her philosophical writing, Margaret Cavendish is clear in stating that colours are real; they are not mere mind-dependent qualities that exist only in the mind of perceivers.
Peter West
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The Coceivability of a Disembodied Personal Life Beyond Death Based on David Lund’s Views [PDF]
Pizhūhish/hā-yi Falsafī- Kalāmī, 2020 As science focuses exclusively on the physical, it seems to assume that the brain has a key role in the origin if not also the constitution of our consciousness; and thus the destruction of the brain, the nervous system, and the body makes it pointless ...
Zainab Amiri +2 more
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