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Impossibility and Impossible Worlds
Possible worlds have found many applications in contemporary philosophy: from theories of possibility and necessity, to accounts of conditionals, to theories of mental and linguistic content, to understanding supervenience relationships, to theories of properties and propositions, among many other applications. Almost as soon as possible worlds started to be used in formal theories in logic, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, metaphysics, and elsewhere, theorists started to wonder whether impossible worlds should be postulated as well. In many applications, possible worlds face limitations that can be dealt with through postulating impossible worlds as well. This chapter examines some of the uses of impossible worlds, and philosophical challenges theories of impossible worlds face
Menorah Review (No. 39, Winter, 1997)
An Interpretive Methodology With Supersessionist Forebodings -- Through a Glass Brightly: Seeing the Unseeable -- The 12th Annual Selma and Jacob Brown Lecture -- Controversy and the Dead Sea Scrolls -- Book Listing -- Jewish Civics -- Leah -- Book Briefing
Rethinking Plato’s Forms
This is a proposal for rethinking the main lines of Plato’s philosophy, including some of the conceptual tools he uses for building and maintaining it. Drawing on a new interpretive paradigm for Plato’s overall vision, the central focus is on the so-called Forms. Regarding the guiding paradigm, we propose replacing the dualism of a world of Forms separated from a world of particulars, with the monistic model of a hierarchically structured universe comprising interdependent levels of reality. Regarding the tools of the trade, we distinguish between three constructs that have come, one and all, and largely indiscriminately, to be regarded as Forms: Ideal Forms, Conceptual Forms, and Relational Forms. This recalibration of what we know of Plato’s outlook, tools, and methods, together with a realignment of these with his general aims, will also help restore the philosopher’s emphasis on that which is good, a perspective often blurred in the structure of two worlds
Menorah Review (No. 41, Fall, 1997)
The Jewish Image in American Fiction -- An Endless Journey? -- A Summer\u27s Game -- The Exilic Home of Jewish Literature -- Book Listing -- Book Briefing
Menorah Review (No. 61, Summer/Fall, 2004)
Reflections by the Author: Rochelle L. Millen -- Further Reflections on Rochelle L. Millen\u27s Book -- Reflections by the Author: Herbert Hirsch -- Problems of Biblical Patriarchy -- A Dead Child Speaks -- Shepherd -- Our Brother Jesus -- Poetry After Auschwitz? -- Prophet, Go, Flee -- Put Me Into the Breach -- Noteworthy Book
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