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15The modal 'can' and material impicationAnnales Philosophici 7 9-10. 2014.We fine tune the distinction between the possible and what can be, mention some of the consequences and argue that the difference between material and logical implication is that of between what can be and what could have been.
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9A religious beliefAnnales Philosophici 7 25-25. 2014.We discuss some of the consequences of the belief that while God keeps His promises under every possible circumstance He can nevertheless break them. One interesting consequence is that no proof is possible for the proposition that God keeps His promises. We also point out that for this believer, necessity and possibility cannot be reformulated as truth in all and some possible worlds, respectively.
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3On a Conception of EssenceSymposion: Theoretical and Applied Inquiries in Philosophy and Social Sciences 11 (1): 7-8. 2024.It is contended that unless everything is necessarily what it is, the essence of an object cannot be a property of the object which the object could not have failed to have. But if everything is necessarily what it is, then no identity statement is contingent.
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18On 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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7On Everything Is Necessarily What It IsOrganon F: Medzinárodný Časopis Pre Analytickú Filozofiu 30 (3): 278-280. 2023.
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30Real 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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38‘On the necessity of identity and Tarski's T‐schema’—A response to Davood HosseiniPhilosophical Investigations 47 (2): 270-271. 2024.Philosophical Investigations, EarlyView.
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16Heisenberg’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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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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80Necessity of identity and Tarski's T‐schemaPhilosophical Investigations 46 (2): 264-265. 2022.Philosophical Investigations, EarlyView.
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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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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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10Aristotle 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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227The 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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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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761Can 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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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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33The 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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Ramat Gan, Tel Aviv District, Israel
Areas of Specialization
Metaphysics |
Areas of Interest
Metaphysics and Epistemology |
Logic and Philosophy of Logic |