Amir Horowitz

Biographic Data

ID3866085
NAMEAmir Horowitz
GIVEN NAMESAmir
FAMILY NAMEHorowitz
SIGNATUREHOROWITZ A
AFFILIATIONSOpen University of Israel
ORCID0000-0003-1913-0553
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR8
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1992
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX0

  • What Can God Do? What Should God Do

    Open AccessAmir HorowitzARTICLEReligions2022References: 8

    The aim of this paper is to defend James Sterba's version (2019) of the logical argument from evil against the existence of God from two objections that have been raised against it: that God cannot "logically" prevent all evils and that the moral requirements that the argument poses for God may not apply to God. I argue that these objections do not refute the claim that God can prevent and should prevent any evil and do not undermine Sterba's arg…

  • Intentionality, evil, God, and necessity

    Open AccessAmir HorowitzARTICLEReligious Studies2020

    In an article in this issue, Kenneth Pearce suggests a novel solution to the ‘logical problem of evil’. That is, he defends the consistency of the obtaining of evil with the existence of an omnipotent and good creator. The basic idea of Pearce's solution to the logical problem of evil is that according to the teleological theory of intentionality, which is self-consistent and consistent with the claim that God exists, some evil is necessary for t…

  • Turning the zombie on its head

    Open AccessAmir HorowitzARTICLESynthese2009References: 29

  • Oral Cancer Knowledge and Opinions Among Maryland Nurse Practitioners

    Open AccessPiya Siriphant, Thomas F Drury et al.ARTICLEJournal of Public Health Dentistry2001

    The reported knowledge of oral cancer, in conjunction with opinions about level of knowledge and training, point to a need for systematic educational updates in oral cancer prevention and early detection

  • Is There a Problem in Physicalist Epiphenomenalism

    Amir HorowitzARTICLEPhilosophy and Phenomenological…1999

    Physicalist epiphenomenalism is the conjunction of the doctrine that tokens of mental events are tokens of physical events and the doctrine that mental events do not exert causal powers by virtue of falling under mental types. The purpose of the paper is to show that physicalist epiphenomenalism, contrary to what many have thought, is not subject to the objections that have been raised against classic epiphenomenalism. This is argued with respect…

  • Searle's mind

    Open AccessAmir HorowitzARTICLEPragmatics & Cognition1994

    Preview this article: Searle's mind: Physical, irreducible, subjective, and non-computational, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/pc.2.1.10hor-1.gif

  • Functional role and intentionality

    Open AccessAmir HorowitzARTICLETheoria1992

  • Semantics and the Psyche

    Marcelo Dascal, Amir HorowitzARTICLEPhilosophy and Phenomenological…1992