Carl Jeffrey Posy ( he, קרל פוזי, italic=no) is an Israeli philosopher. He is a full professor

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in the Department of Philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in

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, Israel. Carl Posy received his

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from

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in the

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in 1971. Posy's areas of research interest include the

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, the

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(particularly

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and his predecessors). His publications include: * ''Kant’s Philosophy of Mathematics: Modern Essays'',

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, 1992. * ''Computability:

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, Gödel,

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, and Beyond'' (with

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and

Oron Shagrir Professor Oron Shagrir (born 1961) is an Israeli philosopher and cognitive scientist. Oron Shagrir is Schulman Chair of Philosophy and professor of Philosophy and of Cognitive and Brain Sciences at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Jerusal ...

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, 2013. . Posy is a former Academic Director of the

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References

External links

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