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CONCEIVABILITY AND MODAL KNOWLEDGE

Metaphilosophy, 2006
Abstract: This article is a discussion of Hume's maxim Nothing we imagine is absolutely impossible. First I explain this maxim and distinguish it from the principle Whatever cannot be imagined (conceived), is impossible. Next I argue that Thomas Reid's criticism of the maxim fails and that the arguments by Tamar Szábo Gendler and John Hawthorne for ...
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Conceiving Cosmopolitanism

2002
Abstract Understanding the ancient and long sidelined concept of cosmopolitanism has suddenly found a fresh impetus and urgency. Globalization, international migration, multiculturalism and global social movements, as well as atrocities committed by those with narrow religious and ethnic identities, have led to reposing of two basic ...
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Margaret Cavendish on conceivability, possibility, and the case of colours

British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 2022
Peter West
exaly  

A Carnapian Logic of Conceivability

Studies in Universal Logic, 2023
Pierre Saint-Germier
exaly  

Should the Self Be Conceived as Conceived or Conceiving?

Contemporary Psychology: A Journal of Reviews, 1979
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Conceive and Create

Plastics Engineering, 2021
RON HARRIS, HARI RAJARAMAN
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Powers and the hard problem of consciousness: conceivability, possibility and powers

European Journal for Philosophy of Science, 2022
Sophie Allen
exaly  

The Conceivability of Naturalism

2002
Abstract A central dilemma in contemporary metaphysics is to find a place for certain anthropocentric subject-matters—for instance, the semantic, moral, and psychological—in a world as conceived by modern naturalism: a stance which inflates the concepts and categories deployed by (finished) physical science into a metaphysics of the ...
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To Conceive or Not to Conceive

Contemporary Psychology: A Journal of Reviews, 1998
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Conceiving the Inconceivability of Conceivability

2019
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