CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2020
| Author | Yordanov, Ivan Stefanov |
|---|---|
| Title | Conceivability and Modal Knowledge The Epistemic Role of Imagination for a Consistent Account of Conceivability |
| Summary | This paper is intended as a critique of the conceivability account of justification for modal knowledge. More specifically, it is intended as a critique of the view that conceivability can serve as the grounds for modal justification if it is defined as imaginability. It focuses primarily on the work of Stephen Yablo (1993), David Chalmers (2002) and Oreste Fiocco (2007) and is meant to explore the arguments and counterarguments for modal rationalism. The paper suggests that imagination fails to achieve its goal as grounds for modal justification because it fails to reliably track possibility and is epistemically unable to make a definite distinction between possible and impossible worlds. The reason for that, however, lies in the utilized notion of possible worlds and not in the faculty of imagination. |
| Supervisor | Griffin, Michael Vance |
| Department | Philosophy MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2020/yordanov_ivan.pdf |
Visit the CEU Library.
© 2007-2021, Central European University