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Carl Posy | The Federmann Center for the Study of Rationality

Carl Posy

Carl Posy
Carl
Posy
קרל פוזי
Philosophy

Research Interests

Logic, Philosophy of Logic, Philosophy of Mathematics, History of Philosophy (Kant, Leibniz), Philosophy of Language.

Center-Related Research Program

I am investigating the norms that underlie certain rationally-governed activities. These include (but are not limited) to rational inquiries (knowledge seeking activities).  I am particularly interested in the activity of mathematical research, and in comparisons among mathematical, philosophical and empirical enquiries.  Recently I have been developing the notion of what I call a “standpoint” – a family of interrelated epistemological, cognitive, ontological and semantic/logical norms – that underlie a class of rational enquiries. I pay special attention to the conflicts of “rival” standpoints for mathematical and other enquiries. I pursue this program both systematically, and historically (looking at roots of this notion of a standpoint in early modern thought). I have a current grant to apply this program to the foundations of ‘intuitionistic’ mathematics.

Grants 

  • National Endowment for the Humanities, Younger Humanist Fellowship for Independent Study and Research, 1975-76
  • Philosophy of Science Center Grant, 1977 – 1978
  • National Endowment for the Humanities, Younger Humanist Fellowship for Independent Study and Research, 1975-76
  • Philosophy of Science Center Grant, 1977 – 1978
  • National Endowment for the Humanities Stipend for Institute on Kant's Ethics, Summer 1983
  • National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Stipend 1985
  • Fulbright Fellowship, 1991-1992
  • Winston Foundation Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies, Jerusalem, 1994 —1995
  • Israel Science Foundation Individual Research Grants:   1999-2001,  2002–2005, 2006–2010, 2014–2018,  2021 –2024
  • Israel Science Foundation Grant for Research Seminar 2008:"Kant's Philosophy of Mathematics"
  • Yad HaNadiv:2010-2013, Grant establishing "Study Program in the Center for Logic, Language and Cognition"  (together with Edit Doron, Malka Rapaport-Hovav, and Oron Shagrir

Published in

  • American Philosophical Quarterly
  • History and Philosophy of Logic
  • Inquiry
  • , Journal of Philosophical Logic
  • Journal of Symbolic Logic
  • The Monist
  •  Synthese
  • Topoi

Former Academic Director, National Library of Israel

see also

 https://www.jpost.com/Israel/National-Library-to-be-established-in-Jerusalem