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517The Hidden FutureSymposion: Theoretical and Applied Inquiries in Philosophy and Social Sciences 5 (1): 9-10. 2018.We argue that the part of the future which is up to us is in principle unknowable.
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28The Hidden FutureSymposion. Theoretical and Applied Inquiries in Philosophy and Social Sciences. forthcoming.Alex Blum ABSTRACT: We argue that the part of the future which is up to us is in principle unknowable. Download PDF.
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1082Can It Be that Tully=Cicero?Symposion: Theoretical and Applied Inquiries in Philosophy and Social Sciences 4 (2): 149-150. 2017.We show, that given two fundamental theses of Kripke, no statement of the form ‘‘a=b’ is necessarily true’, is true, if ‘a’ and ‘b’ are distinct rigid designators.
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43Can It Be that Tully=Cicero?Symposion. Theoretical and Applied Inquiries in Philosophy and Social Sciences. forthcoming.Alex Blum ABSTRACT: We show, that given two fundamental theses of Kripke, no statement of the form ‘‘a=b’ is necessarily true’, is true, if ‘a’ and ‘b’ are distinct rigid designators. Download PDF.
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2The Expression of TruthSkepsis: A Journal for Philosophy and Interdisciplinary Research 10. 1999.
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76On the cannot of infallibilitySophia 44 (1): 125-127. 2005.We content that a very seductive argument for theological fatalism fails. In the course of our discussion we point out that theological fatalism is incompatible with the existence of a being who is omnipotent, omniscient and infallible. We end by suggesting that ‘possible’ formalized as ‘◊’ is to be understood as ‘can or could have been’ and not simply as ‘can’. The argument we discuss conflates the two.
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96Arithmetic and Logic Incompleteness: the LinkThe Reasoner 2 (3): 6. 2008.We show how second order logic incompleteness follows from incompleteness of arithmetic, as proved by Gödel
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52Notes and Discussions Notes et Discussions — Notizen und Diskussionen Convention T And Natural LanguagesDialectica 32 (1): 77-80. 1978.
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56Two Observations About S5Zeitschrift fur mathematische Logik und Grundlagen der Mathematik 23 (36): 485-486. 1977.
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68Comment on Yehuda Gellman's “the intelligibility of God's simplicity in rational theology”Philosophia 4 (4): 560-560. 1974.
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75A note on theological fatalism1Organon F: Medzinárodný Časopis Pre Analytickú Filozofiu 14 (2): 143-147. 2007.We contend that a very seductive argument for theological fatalism fails. In the course of our discussion we point out that theological fatalism is incompatible with the existence of a being who is omnipotent, omniscient and infallible. We suggest that ‘possible’ formalized as ‘◊’ is to be understood as ‘can or could have been’ and not simply as ‘can’. The argument we discuss conflates the two. We end by rounding out, hope-fully, some left over corners of serious concern to the theist.
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271The core of the consequence argumentDialectica 57 (4): 423-429. 2003.We suggest that the classical version of the consequence argument contending that freedom and determinism are incompatible subtly misstates the core intuition, which is that if a true conditional and a true antecedent are jointly beyond our control, then so is the consequent. We show however that the improved version no less than the classical implies fatalism.Interestingly, the reasoning, that yields fatalism, undermines a direct argument for the soundness of the improved version. But if fatali…Read more
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93On Changing the PastOrganon F: Medzinárodný Časopis Pre Analytickú Filozofiu 20 (3): 377-378. 2013.
Ramat Gan, Tel Aviv District, Israel
Areas of Specialization
| Metaphysics |
Areas of Interest
| Metaphysics and Epistemology |
| Logic and Philosophy of Logic |