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Conceivability and Possibility Tamar Szabó Gendler, John Hawthorne
Publisher: Clarendon Press

I think the distinction you offer between conceivability and possibility is a good one. But it seems in some sense conceivable. But, once you realize that conceivability is not the same as logical possibility, and that the Zombie World isn't even all that intuitive, why say that the Zombie World is logically possible? If two people can agree on that, then I think a productive discussion is possible. Opposing the physicalism with the use of zombie also leads to a more universal questions about relations between conceivability and possibility. My friend Bryce Laliberte has written an interesting and engaging paper on the relationship between conceivability and possibility. The central thesis of the paper is that a proposition is possible if and only if it is conceivable. Filed under: General Philosophy — Peter @ 12:45 am. Conceivability, Imagination, and Possibility - Bibliography. In the case of the Zombie Argument in particular, that ends up causing a lot of confusion about what kinds of possibility and conceivability are being invoked. We might call this a mere conceptual possibility.) I agree that not all conceptual possibilities are metaphysical possibilities. Online Philosophy Ebooks & Reviews Knowledge, Possibility, and Consciousness; Descartes: Belief, Scepticism and Virtue; Rationality in Action;. The question is how to distinguish. The notion of logical possibility lies behind several different kinds of analysis, most notably supervenience and identity. Furthermore, my analysis of negation implies that we can simultaneously conceive of contradictory states of affairs—so conceivability is no test of possibility.