PUBLICATIONS BY HANOCH BEN-YAMI

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Book

Logic & Natural Language: On Plural Reference and Its Semantic and Logical Significance, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004. Online Revised Version.

Journal Articles

1. A Wittgensteinian Solution to the Sorites. Philosophical Investigations, 2010, doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9205.2010.01406.x (abstract, pdf)
2. Backwards Causation still Impossible. Analysis 70(1) 2010: 89-92.
3. Generalized Quantifiers, and Beyond. Logique et Analyse 208, 2009: 309-326. (abstract)
4. Plural Quantification Logic: A Critical Appraisal. Review of Symbolic Logic 2(1), 2009: 208-32. (abstract)
5. Critical Study of Amie L. Thomasson, Ordinary Objects, Oxford University Press, New York, 2007. Croatian Journal of Philosophy VIII(23), 2008: 267‑79.
6. The Impossibility of Backwards Causation. The Philosophical Quarterly 57, 2007: 439-55. (abstract)
7. Causality and Temporal Order in Special Relativity. The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 57(3), 2006: 459-479. (pdf, abstract)
8. A Critique of Frege on Common Nouns. Ratio (new series) 19(2), 2006: 148-55. (abstract, pdf)
9. Behaviorism and Psychologism: Why Block’s Argument Against Behaviorism is Unsound. Philosophical Psychology 18(2), 2005: 179-86. (abstract, pdf)
10. The Semantics of Kind Terms. Philosophical Studies 102(2), 2001: 155-84. (abstract, pdf)
11. An Argument Against Functionalism. Australasian Journal of Philosophy 77, 1999: 320-24. (abstract, pdf)
12. Against Characterizing Mental States as Propositional Attitudes. The Philosophical Quarterly 47, 1997: 84-9. (abstract, pdf)
13. Attributive Adjectives and the Predicate Calculus. Philosophical Studies 83(3), 1996: 277-89.
14. A Note on the Chinese Room. Synthese 95, 1993: 169-72. (abstract, pdf)

Papers published in Conference Proceedings

1. Natural Language Quantification as Involving Plural Reference. In Helen Bohse and Sven Walter (eds.): Selected Contributions to GAP.6, Sixth International Conference of the Society for Analytical Philosophy, Berlin, 11–14 September 2006. Paderborn: Mentis, 2007.
2. New Semantics and Deductive System for Natural Language. In L. Behounek (ed.), Logica Yearbook 2003, Prague: Filosofia, 2004: 59-71. (pdf)
3. R. Lanzet and H. Ben-Yami: Logical Inquiries into a New Formal System with Plural Reference. In Hendricks, V.F. et al. (eds.), First-Order Logic Revisited, Berlin: Logos Verlag, 2004: 173-223. (pdf)
4. Newton of the Grass Leaves: Kant’s Philosophy of Biology in the Light of Evolutionary Theory. In Hebrew. In E. Friedlander and Y.  Senderowicz (eds.), Essays on Kant’s Third Critique, Tel Aviv University Press, 1999: 139-52.

Other

1. Natural Kind Terms. In Hogan, Patrick (ed.), The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Language Sciences, Cambridge University Press, forthcoming (due to appear in April 2010).
2. Apparent Simultaneity. Deposited in Pittsburgh PhilSci-Archive, March 2007.
3. Review of The Old New Logic: Essays on the Philosophy of Fred Sommers, edited by David Oderberg. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005. Mind 116(441), 2006: 197-202.
4. Diogenes and the Brats (Of Providence).