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Winstanley, Paul. "Conceivability, apriority and modality." Thesis, Durham University, 2011. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/860/.

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I aim to understand whether apriority entails necessity, aposteriority entails contingency and conceivability entails possibility; that is, the relationship between, and the nature of, rationality and modality. The thesis is split into two parts: one on apriority and modality (chs. 2-4), and another on conceivability, apriority/aposteriority and modality (chs. 5 to 7). In Chapter 1, I discuss ‘two-dimensional modal semantics’, arguing that it is ill-equipped to provide a substantive account of rationality and modality, before setting out the basis of such an understanding. I begin the first pa

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León, Encarnación Díaz. "Consciousness, conceivability and concepts." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.443884.

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LOPES, OCTAVIO MOREIRA GUIMARAES. "CONCEIVABILITY, POSSIBILITY AND LOGIC." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2005. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=7389@1.

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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO<br>A Lógica é hoje em dia vista como uma ciência matemática fundamentalmente ligada à faculdade do entendimento, e pouco relacionada com nossa capacidade de imaginar ou conceber. Desta forma, sob a alcunha de psicologismo, costuma-se descartar qualquer associação da lógica à conceptividade ou à imaginação como espúria e mal colocada. Esta tese de doutorado tem como objetivo mostrar que, contrariamente ao que se costuma crer, há na lógica, tomada como uma ciência, um inegável emprego metodológico da faculdade da conceptividade ou da imagi

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Feng, Shuyi [Verfasser], and Andreas [Akademischer Betreuer] Kemmerling. "Conceivability and Possibility — Conceivability as an Epistemic Guide to Possibility / Shuyi Feng ; Betreuer: Andreas Kemmerling." Heidelberg : Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg, 2017. http://d-nb.info/1177690268/34.

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Weidler-Lewis, Joanna. "Conceivability and possibility: Denying the link." Diss., Connect to online resource, 2006. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:1433477.

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Gubka, Steven Anthony. "Episodic Memory and the Conceivability of Zombies." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/243888.

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In the zombie argument against materialism, we are asked to conceive of a creature just like ourselves, but without subjective experiences or phenomenal consciousness. But in what ways is this zombie really just like you or me? In this paper, I show that we can imagine a zombie as physically identical to some human, functionally identical to some human, or both. I argue that, if we take the role of phenomenology in our lives seriously, then we are mistaken when we think we can conceive of a physically identical and functionally identical zombie, whose possibility would threaten materialism. In

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Holmlund, Erik. "Conceivability and Possibility : Counterfactual Conditionals as Modal Knowledge?" Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för psykologi, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-160728.

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Hur har vi kunskap om vad som är möjligt? Enligt vad som kan betraktas som det traditionella svaret till den frågan, har vi kunskap om modalitet via föreställningsbarhet. Vi föreställer oss ting och tar sedan detta som bevis för möjlighet. Denna uppsats kommer att undersöka tre invändningar till detta svar angående hur vi har kunskap om möjlighet. Vi kommer sedan att överväga Williamsons förmodan: att vår kognitiva kapacitet för att hantera kontrafaktiska konditionaler bär med sig den kognitiva kapaciteten för oss att även hantera metafysisk modalitet (2007, 136), och undersöka om denna förmod

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Berglund, Anders. "From Conceivability to Possibility : An Essay in Modal Epistemology." Doctoral thesis, Umeå University, Philosophy and Linguistics, 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-500.

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<p>This study deals with the thesis that conceivability implies possibility. Confronted with alleged counterexamples to this thesis, some philosophers have turned to what may be called “idealized” or “more demanding” notions of conceivability. I argue that in turning to such notions, they have made the thesis useless to limited beings like us for attaining modal knowledge. However, in refusing to identify conceivability with demanding or idealized notions, we cannot maintain that conceivability always implies possibility. Essentially, there are two ways to proceed: to view conceivability as a

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Atkinson, Catherine. "Gender, sexualities, and primary education : equalities pedagogy and the conceivability of 'otherness'." Thesis, University of York, 2018. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/22221/.

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Of the increasing number of initiatives setting out in recent years to challenge heteronormativity in education, the 2006-2009 No Outsiders project has arguably been one of the most influential. Conducted across 15 primary schools in England, No Outsiders was an action research project that sought to disrupt heteronormativity through critical pedagogy, gaining widespread academic and media attention in the process. In spite of its prominence, though, there has been a lack of research exploring the ways in which children have incorporated this work into their everyday understandings and doings

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Schuler, Matthew Michael. "The Problem of Evil as the Problem of Pain." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/33003.

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The problem of evil arises from the argument that the existence of suffering is incompatible with (or else renders improbable) the existence of an omnipotent, omniscient and omnibenevolent God (and that, since the former surely exists, the latter must not). Philosophers working on the problem, however, rarely make profitable use of the distinction between mental and physical suffering. Accordingly, in this thesis I develop a version of the problem that focuses specifically on the phenomenal experience of physical pain. After providing (in the first chapter) a detailed analysis of (i) both logi

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Clifton, Walter Scott. "Ways to Skin the Zombie Cat: A Look at the Problems Associated with Chalmers's Zombie-Argument." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2006. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/philosophy_theses/3.

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In contemporary philosophy of mind, the issue of consciousness has taken center stage. Broadly speaking, those who deal with consciousness fall into two camps: those who prioritize empirical work and those who favor conceptual investigation. One prominent argument has served to deepen the divide: the argument for the possibility of zombies. In this paper I intend to examine closely this argument, as it’s presented by David Chalmers, and some of the attempts to discredit it. In so doing, I present some of my own arguments against it, as well as the claim that if it’s sound, then materialism is

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Steadman, Anne M. "The Immediacy of Phenomenal Concepts and Immediate Implications for Physicalism." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/202741.

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A number of recent objections to physicalism are based on the apparent gap between physical knowledge and phenomenal knowledge. In response, some physicalists accept the epistemic gap, but deny the inference from the epistemic gap to a metaphysical gap. One popular strategy is to argue that there is something unique about our phenomenal concepts, the concepts that we use to think about our phenomenal states in terms of their subjective character, that explains the apparent gap. I develop a version of this strategy.Specifically, I argue that phenomenal-physical identities are necessarily true.

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Strohminger, Margot. "Knowledge of modality by imagining." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/6351.

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Assertions about metaphysical modality (hereafter modality) play central roles in philosophical theorizing. For example, when philosophers propose hypothetical counterexamples, they often are making a claim to the effect that some state of affairs is possible. Getting the epistemology of modality right is thus important. Debates have been preoccupied with assessing whether imaginability—or conceivability, insofar as it's different—is a guide to possibility, or whether it is rather intuitions of possibility—and modal intuitions more generally—that are evidence for possibility (modal) claims. Th

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Psilojannopoulos, Anastassios. "Von Thomasius zu Tetens." Doctoral thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Philosophische Fakultät I, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/16682.

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In der vorliegenden Arbeit wird aufgrund der kommentierten Quellen die Tatsache erhellt, dass der Kantsche Anspruch auf Legitimität des Erkenntnisverfahrens, wie er in seiner Transzendentalphilosophie zum Ausdruck gebracht wurde, von drei Momenten des Gedankenprozesses in der Philosophie der Deutschen Aufklärung vorangekündigt wird: a) der Verschiebung der Problematik der deutschen Philosophie vom „Harmonie“-Gedanken der so genannten Leibniz-Wolff-Schule und ihrer Gegner hin zur Fragestellung nach der „Realisierung der Begriffe“ bei Tetens, in der sich der Mensch als sinnstiftendes Wesen dartu

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Saint-Germier, Pierre. "Les arguments de concevabilité." Thesis, Lyon, École normale supérieure, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015ENSL0994.

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Les arguments de concevabilité sont des arguments philosophiques reposant sur le principe selon lequel tout ce qui est concevable est possible. Cette thèse se propose d'évaluer à un niveau général cette forme d'argumentation en s'appuyant sur des exemples historiques et contemporains. les arguments de concevabilité, quelle que soit la position philosophique qu'ils visent à défendre, soulèvent en effet des difficultés qui leur sont communes et ont trait principalement (i) à la définition de la notion de possibilitée, (ii) à la définition de la notion de concevabilité, et (iii) à la légitimité d

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Kostic, Daniel. "The explanatory gap problem." Doctoral thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Philosophische Fakultät I, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/16447.

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Diese Arbeit bewertet verschiedene Argumente, die nicht nur leugnen, dass Gehirnzustände und bewusste Zustände ein und dasselbe sind, sondern auch behaupten, dass eine solche Identität unverständlich bleibt. Ich argumentiere, dass keiner der Ansätze einen Physikalismus unterminieren, da sie für ihre stillschweigenden Annahmen über die Verbindung zwischen Arten der Präsentation und ihrer Erklärung keine direkte oder unabhängige Begründung liefern. Meiner Ansicht nach sollte die Intelligibilität psychologischer Identität nicht ausschließlich auf einer Meinungsanalyse basieren. Der Haupteinwand

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Mihálik, Jakub. "Vědomí v přírodě. Russellovský přístup." Doctoral thesis, 2016. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-353465.

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Jakub Mihálik: Consciousness in Nature. A Russellian Approach Abstract: This thesis attempts to provide a philosophical answer to the question of how phenomenal consciousness, or experience, can exist in the physical world, i.e. in the world as it is described by science. The thesis has three parts: In the first part (chapter 1) I explicate the concept of phenomenal consciousness and contrast it with other concepts of consciousness common in the literature. Moreover, I suggest that the project pursued in this thesis can be naturally viewed as a part of the more general project of trying to fin

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