Modal epistemology and the rationalist renaissance / George Bealer -- Berkeley's puzzle / John Campbell -- Does conceivability entail possibility? / David J. Chalmers -- Desire in imagination / Gregory Currie -- Essentialsim versus essentialism / Michael Della Rocca -- The varieties of necessity / Kit Fine -- A study in modal deviance / Gideon Rosen -- On the metaphysical contingency of laws of nature / Alan Sidelle -- The art of the impossible / Roy Sorensen -- Reliability and the a priori / Ernest Sosa -- What is it like to be a zombie? / Robert Stalnaker -- The conceivability of naturalism / Crispin Wright -- Coulda, woulda, shoulda / Stephen Yablo.
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The capacity to represent things to ourselves as possible plays a crucial role both in everyday thinking and in philosophical reasoning. This volume offers philosophical illumination of conceivability, possibility, and the relations between them.