Carl Jeffrey Posy () is an Israeli philosopher. He is a full professor

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in the Department of

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at the

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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),

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

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References

External links

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