Sometimes we accept propositions, sometimes we reject them, and sometimes we take
propositions to be worth considering but not yet established, as merely possible. The result …

Recent studies in cognitive development suggest that preschoolers may not be able to
represent alternative possibilities, and therefore may lack modal concepts such as possible …

This book presents a new view of the relation between metaphysics and the theory of
meaning, broadly construed. Christopher Peacocke develops a general claim that …

According to Essentialism, an object's properties divide into those that are essential and
those that are accidental. While being human is commonly thought to be essential to …

Claims about what is metaphysically necessary or possible have long played a central role
in metaphysics and other areas of philosophy. Such claims are traditionally thought of as …

The mental model view of causation is deterministic, which claims that “A causes B means
that given A, the occurrence of B is necessary”(Johnson-Laird et al., 2017). Frosch and …

I want to model a finite, fallible cognitive agent who imagines that p in the sense of mentally
representing a scenario—a configuration of objects and properties—correctly described by …

According to modalism, modality is primitive. In this paper, we examine the implications of
this view for modal epistemology, and articulate a modalist account of modal knowledge …

The paper presents a dilemma for both epistemic and non‐epistemic versions of
conceivability‐based accounts of modal knowledge. On the one horn, non‐epistemic …

What is it for you to be conscious? There is no agreement whatever in philosophy or
science: it has remained a hard problem, a mystery. Is this partly or mainly owed to the …