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

You might be wondering where the conceivability of p-zombies goes in it being an argument against physicalism. Still, there are significant costs to both of these views. Conceivability and Possibility. I also agree with Janet that there are other ways to challenge the argument for a hard problem and that questions about the relation between conceivability and possibility are important. Encyclopedia article on zombies uses the example of the inherent details of a circle to show the difference between an ignorant conceivability and an idealized kind of conceivability which is constrained by 'possibility'. Conceivability.and.Possibility.pdf. The widely accepted principle that “conceivability indicates possibility” is silent on the epistemic source of modal intuitions. From conceivability to possibility. Tamar SzabГі Gendler, John Hawthorne. He suggested that ideal conceivability is all that we have to go on, and that if other philosophers have some other conception of metaphysical possibility in mind (i.e. On another point you are commiting a fallacy. My original post argues against that. Some may argue that conceivability equals possibility. I was merely arguing that dualism is conceivable, but may not be possible. Type-B materialists reject the step from an epistemic premise to an ontological conclusion, holding for example that conceivability does not entail possibility.