Does Conceivability Entail Possibility?

David J. Chalmers

900 citations0/0 files stored

No readable copy stored yet — this record is metadata only.

No open-access location is known for this record yet.

Literature note Cite in a project Citation map

Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics Philosophy and Theoretical Science Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge

Abstract

Abstract There is a long tradition in philosophy of using a priori methods to draw conclusions about what is possible and what is necessary, and often in turn to draw conclusions about matters of substantive metaphysics. Arguments like this typically have three steps: first an epistemic claim (about what can be known or conceived), from there to a modal claim (about what is possible or necessary), and from there to a metaphysical claim (about the nature of things in the world).

Paper brief

Loading…

Cite this work

Citation unavailable for this work.

BibTeX RIS CSL-JSON

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Citations in this library

Citation map →

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 900 citations exist upstream.

Cited by

2001Conceptual Analysis and Reductive Explanation 2006Perception and the Fall from Eden 2003Consciousness and its Place in Nature 2019The Epistemic Role of Consciousness 2006The Foundations of Two-Dimensional Semantics 2003The Content and Epistemology of Phenomenal Belief 2007THE RISE AND FALL OF EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHY 2010Imagining as a Guide to Possibility

Imported from OpenAlex (CC0) — nothing here is generated.