So the kind of conceivability invoked in premisses (1) and (2) needs to be strongly constrained.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zombies] Reference

“You do not admit the conceivability at all?” he queried.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anna Karenina] Reference

For other attacks on the conceivability of zombies, see Cottrell.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zombies] Reference

An interior volatile chemical factory isn't beyond conceivability.    From Wordnik.com.  [Behe's Test] Reference

The simplest version of the conceivability argument goes as follows.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zombies] Reference

Joseph Levine discusses a version of the conceivability argument in his 2001.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zombies] Reference

Their conceivability does not zero out the evidential value of all putative IC.    From Wordnik.com.  [Assessing Causality] Reference

Thought experiments, such as Putnam's Twin Earth, involve positive conceivability.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Epistemology of Modality] Reference

That looks like a prima facie case for premiss (2) of the conceivability argument.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zombies] Reference

First, many philosophers draw a distinction between conceivability and imagination.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Epistemology of Modality] Reference

Only if the answer to each question is Yes will the conceivability argument succeed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zombies] Reference

For discussion of Hume's views on conceivability see Lightner (1997) and Kail (2003).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Epistemology of Modality] Reference

Contemporary versions will be discussed in the section on conceivability-based accounts.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Epistemology of Modality] Reference

P is given by providing a model that characterizes the epistemic practice that governs conceivability.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Epistemology of Modality] Reference

Chalmers too, reactivating the idea, finds the conceivability of zombies ˜obvious™: he remarks that.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zombies] Reference

He views the conceivability of zombies as ˜the principal manifestation of the explanatory gap™ (79).    From Wordnik.com.  [Zombies] Reference

The dualist must respond to any claim as it arises: the conceivability argument does not pre-empt them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dualism] Reference

Several other objections have been raised to premiss (2) of the conceivability argument; some are noted below.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zombies] Reference

Is conceivability primarily a property of statements, propositions, images, objects, or some combination of them?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Epistemology of Modality] Reference

The distance becomes less and less, but theoretically, or in conceivability, the one can never overtake the other.    From Wordnik.com.  [To Infidelity and Back] Reference

He is indeed considering the view of possibility as conceivability, but in doing so he is merely acknowledging what.    From Wordnik.com.  [Descartes' Modal Metaphysics] Reference

Besides, as also noted earlier, the conceivability of zombies seems to entail that epiphenomenalistic worlds are possible.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zombies] Reference

How does it explain the conceivability without obvious incoherence of the identity of the divine attributes with each other?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Divine Simplicity] Reference

In fact Arnauld may be the source of what Brueckner (2003) dubs “the standard objection” to conceivability-based accounts.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Epistemology of Modality] Reference

(He had a priori arguments for the same conclusion, one of which foreshadows the ˜conceivability argument™ discussed below.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Zombies] Reference

Against the skeptical position many different accounts of the relation between conceivability and modality have been formulated.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Epistemology of Modality] Reference

Recognition of the fact that non-ideal conditions effect conceivability, is essential to possessing the concept of conceivability.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Epistemology of Modality] Reference

Now let us consider arguments against the conceivability of zombies, keeping in mind that what matters is ˜ideal conceivability™.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zombies] Reference

This view, of course, shares the strengths and weaknesses of the analogous response to the conceivability arguments discussed above.    From Wordnik.com.  [Functionalism] Reference

If that is right, physicalists can concede the conceivability of zombies while insisting that the properties in question are physical.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zombies] Reference

The issues raised by the question of whether conceivability entails possibility are interesting independently of the mind-body problem.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zombies] Reference

"You do not admit the conceivability at all?" he queried.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anna Karenina] Reference

By Chalmers 'lights, your state of conceivability here is positive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brains] Reference

And it makes no mistakes in moving from conceivability to necessity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prosblogion] Reference

˜conceivability™: What does it mean to conceive of a proposition?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Epistemology of Modality] Reference

People lacked interest in buying protection for a remote conceivability.    From Wordnik.com.  [LXer Linux News] Reference

This plays roughly the role that the 2D conceivability-possibility thesis.    From Wordnik.com.  [fragments of consciousness] Reference

The evidence of existence, he declares, is clear and distinct conceivability.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Approach to Philosophy] Reference