Hanoch Ben-Yami

Biographic Data

ID3973584
NAMEHanoch Ben-Yami
GIVEN NAMESHanoch
FAMILY NAMEBen-Yami
SIGNATUREBEN-YAMI H
AFFILIATIONSCentral European University
ORCID0000-0002-4903-854X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS10
WORKS AS AUTHOR8
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1993
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
H-INDEX2

  • Word, Sign and Representation in Descartes

    Open AccessHanoch Ben-Yami, Zeta BooksARTICLEJournal of Early Modern Studies2021

    In the first chapter of his The World, Descartes compares light to words and discusses signs and ideas. This made scholars read into that passage our views of language as a representational medium and consider it Descartes’ model for representation in perception. I show, by contrast, that Descartes does not ascribe there any representational role to language; that to be a sign is for him to have a kind of causal role; and that he is concerned the…

  • The Barcan formulas and necessary existence

    Open AccessHanoch Ben-YamiARTICLESynthese2021References: 13

    The Modal Predicate Calculus gives rise to issues surrounding the Barcan formulas, their converses, and necessary existence. I examine these issues by means of the Quantified Argument Calculus (Quarc), a recently developed, powerful formal logic system. Quarc is closer in syntax and logical properties to Natural Language than is the Predicate Calculus, a fact that lends additional interest to this examination, as Quarc might offer a better repres…

  • The Quantified Argument Calculus and Natural Logic

    Open AccessHanoch Ben-YamiARTICLEdialectica2020

    The formalisation of natural language arguments in a formal language close to it in syntax has been a central aim of Moss's Natural Logic. I examine how the Quantified Argument Calculus (Quarc) can handle the inferences Moss has considered. I show that they can be incorporated in existing versions of Quarc or in straightforward extensions of it, all within sound and complete systems. Moreover, Quarc is closer in some respects to natural language …

  • Introduction to the 2nd Synthese Special Issue

    Open AccessHanoch Ben-Yami, Robyn Carston et al.ARTICLESynthese2018

  • The Impossibility of Backwards Causation

    Hanoch Ben-YamiARTICLEThe Philosophical Quarterly2007Cited by: 2References: 10

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  • Causality and Temporal Order in Special Relativity

    Hanoch Ben-YamiARTICLEThe British Journal for the…2006Cited by: 2References: 9

    David Malament tried to show that the causal theory of time leads to a unique determination of simultaneity relative to an inertial observer, namely standard simultaneity. I show that the causal relation Malament uses in his proofs, causal connectibility, should be replaced by a different causal relation, the one used by Reichenbach in his formulation of the theory. I also explain why Malament's reliance on the assumption that the observer has an…

  • Against Characterizing Mental States as Propositional Attitudes

    Hanoch Ben-YamiARTICLEThe Philosophical Quarterly1997Cited by: 6

    Journal Article Against Characterizing Mental States as Propositional Attitudes Get access Hanoch Ben‐Yami Hanoch Ben‐Yami Tel Aviv University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 47, Issue 186, January 1997, Pages 84–89, https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9213.00049 Published: 07 January 2003

  • A note on the Chinese Room

    Open AccessHanoch Ben-Yami, Hann ch Ben-Yami et al.ARTICLESynthese1993References: 5