Conceivability, Possibility and Rationality

• Authors: Karol Polcyn

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Conceivability, Possibility and Rationality

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Conceivability, Possibility and Rationality

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

PL

Chalmers argues that ideal conceivability (conceivability on ideal rational reflection) entails possibility and on this basis assumes that zombies are possible and, therefore, that materialism is false. I argue that the paradigm cases of conceivability intuitions that Chalmers takes to be reliable guides to possibility are not only conceptually coherent, even on ideal rational reflection, but in addition have some rational explanation. The conceivability of zombies, however, has no rational explanation. So it is not ad hoc to deny that the conceivability of zombies entails possibility.

• Publisher: University of Warsaw, Institute of Philosophy
• Journal: Filozofia Nauki
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 21
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 69-73

Dates

published

2013-06-01

Contributors

author

Karol Polcyn