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26Two Observations About S5Zeitschrift fur mathematische Logik und Grundlagen der Mathematik 23 (36): 485-486. 1977.
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23Comment on Yehuda Gellman's “the intelligibility of God's simplicity in rational theology”Philosophia 4 (4): 560-560. 1974.
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16Kripke on Identity StatementsSymposion. Theoretical and Applied Inquiries in Philosophy and Social Sciences. forthcoming.Alex Blum ABSTRACT: We show that Kripke’s argument for the necessity of identity statements relating objects a and b by their rigid designators demands an additional significant premise. Download PDF.
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16Can 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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16On the Argument for the Necessity of IdentitySymposion: Theoretical and Applied Inquiries in Philosophy and Social Sciences 10 (2): 169-171. 2023.We show that the thesis that identity is necessary is equivalent to the thesis that everything is necessarily what it is. Hence the challenges facing either, faces them both.
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15Heisenberg’s 1958 Weltformel and the Roots of Post-Empirical PhysicsSpringer Verlag. 2019.This book presents the first detailed account of Werner Heisenberg’s failed attempt to find a theory of everything in the autumn of his career. It further investigates what we can learn from his failure in relation to the search for a final theory of physics, an endeavour that continues to define research in fundamental physics to this day. Thereby it provides the first historically informed contribution to the current debate on post-empirical physics and the state of particle physics.
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14The Force of Truth 1Philosophical Investigations 34 (4): 393-395. 2011.The theme of the paper is that what is true cannot be false and conversely. This position was anticipated by Aristotle in De Interpretatione and by G. H. von Wright. The latter calls it “a truth of the logic of relative modalities.”Aristotle has been taken to task by Susan Haack and others for arguing fallaciously from the Principle of Bivalence, that every statement is either true or false, to fatalism. The implication holds, but we show that it is unreasonable to assume that Aristotle grounded…Read more
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13John Wheeler’s Desert Island: The conservatism of non-empirical physicsStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 90 (C): 219-225. 2021.
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13Stanley Malinovich, 1933-2004Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 78 (5). 2005.
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12Notes and Discussions Notes et Discussions — Notizen und Diskussionen Convention T And Natural LanguagesDialectica 32 (1): 77-80. 1978.
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11Real Virtuality and Actual Transitions: Historical Reflections on Virtual Entities before Quantum Field TheoryPerspectives on Science 32 (3): 329-349. 2024.This paper studies the notion of virtuality in the Bohr-Kramers-Slater theory of 1924. We situate the virtual entities of BKS within the tradition of the correspondence principle and the radiation theory of the Bohr model. We show how, in this context, virtual oscillators emerged as classical substitute radiators and were used to describe the otherwise elusive quantum transitions. They played an effective role in the quantum theory of radiation while remaining categorically distinct and ontologi…Read more
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10The 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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9Kripke on Identity StatementsSymposion: Theoretical and Applied Inquiries in Philosophy and Social Sciences 8 (2): 153-153. 2021.We show that Kripke’s argument for the necessity of identity statements relating objects a and b by their rigid designators demands an additional significant premise.
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9A correction in Copi's account of Boolean normal formsNotre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 14 (2): 288-288. 1973.
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9Aristotle and the FutureSymposion: Theoretical and Applied Inquiries in Philosophy and Social Sciences 7 (1): 7-8. 2020.We intend to show that Aristotle’s contention that future tense contingent statements are neither true nor false leads to inconsistency.
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6Aristotle and the FutureSymposion. Theoretical and Applied Inquiries in Philosophy and Social Sciences. forthcoming.Alex Blum ABSTRACT: We intend to show that Aristotle’s contention that future tense contingent statements are neither true nor false leads to inconsistency. Download PDF.
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5On Everything Is Necessarily What It IsOrganon F: Medzinárodný Časopis Pre Analytickú Filozofiu 30 (3): 278-280. 2023.
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Ramat Gan, Tel Aviv District, Israel
Areas of Specialization
Metaphysics |
Areas of Interest
Metaphysics and Epistemology |
Logic and Philosophy of Logic |