Abstract
In “The Price of Sensitivity,” Rebecca Hanrahan assesses benefits and costs of views one might have as to whether the experiences of possibly true propositions are different from the experiences of necessarily true propositions or not. The sensitivity counterfactual is, unlike the insensitivity counterfactual, a view that affirmatively answers to this question. Hanrahan argues that the collapse of the modal (a view that all conceptual possibilities are physical and hence metaphysical possibilities) is an unpleasant consequence of accepting the sensitivity counterfactual view. However, accepting the insensitivity counterfactual, according to her, corroborates the claim that conceptual possibilities are distinct from either metaphysical or physical possibilities, and that there are strong metaphysical possibilities, that is, possibilities that limit what can be instantiated in any possible world. Hanrahan opts for accepting strong metaphysical possibilities, holding it more in accordance with our modal intuitions.
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