Abstract According to Jeff Speaks, one sort of perfect being theology takes its rise from a description God as the greatest conceivable being. Speaks offers two problems for this project. One is finding suitable sense ‘conceivable’. The other concerns what he calls ‘troublemakers’, attributes that seem show cannot be brings these together in dilemma.

In this article, I show that (i) from what call a “Kripkean” account of the relations between conceivability and metaphysical necessities, (ii) an apparently plausible principle relating epistemic modality, (iii) duality modalities, one can utterly anti-Kripkean result every necessity is necessity. My aim to present diagnose problem evaluate costs some possible Kripkean reactions. particular, w...

My contribution considers the problem of real distinction between mind and body its resulting consequences regarding unity human being against background a debate on Cartesianism Hungarian intellectuals Early Modernity. In his Syllabus (1685), János Pósáházi censured 32 Cartesian assertions criticized frequently Descartes’ conceivability argument for distinction. His criticism involved terminol...

Brian Loar believes he has refuted all those antiphysicalist arguments that take as their point of departure observations about what is or isn’t conceivable. I argue that there remains an important, popular and plausible-looking form of conceivability argument that Loar has entirely overlooked. Though he may not have realized it, Saul Kripke presents, or comes close to presenting, two fundament...

Epistemic theories of truth identify truth with some positive epistemic status of truth-bearers. Sophisticated versions of this theory identify truth with some kind of idealization of warranted assertability. 1 The proposal is that a belief, sentence, proposition, etc. is true iff it is warrantedly assertable in ideal epistemic conditions a, b, c…, where a, b, c… signify some sort of projection...

This essay aims to redress the contention that epistemic possibility cannot be a guide to the principles of modal metaphysics. I argue that the interaction between the multi-dimensional intensional framework and intensional plural quantification enables epistemic possibilities to target the haecceitistic properties of individuals. I outline the elements of plural logic, and I specify, then, a m...