Rational Imagination and Modal Knowledge
Posted in papers on Jun 20th, 2009
Rational Imagination and Modal Knowledge, with Benjamin Jarvis. Version of 17 June, 2009. Under review.
How do we know what’s (metaphysically) possible and impossible? Kripke-Putnam considerations suggest that possibility is not merely a matter of (coherent) conceivability/imaginability. For example, we can coherently imagine that Hesperus and Phosphorus are distinct objects even though they are not possibly [...]