Dr. Amir Horowitz

Updated: July 2007

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Personal

Telephone Tel: 972-9-7781378
Email E-mail: amirho@openu.ac.il

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Education

1984 B.A., Philosophy, Tel-Aviv University
1984 L.L.B., Law, Tel-Aviv University
1988 M.A., Philosophy, Tel-Aviv University
Dissertation: Thought and Object
1993 Ph.D., Philosophy, Tel-Aviv University
Dissertation: Content: The Mind's Sensitivity to the World

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Academic Appointments

1991 Instructor, Tel-Aviv University
1995 Visiting Scholar, Brown University
1997 Visiting Fellow, MIT
1997 Senior Lecturer, Suffolk University, USA
2001 Faculty member candidate, The Open University of Israel
2003 Senior Lecturer, The Open University of Israel

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Research Fields

  • Philosophy of mind and cognitive science
  • Philosophy of language
  • Philosophy of law and ethics
  • Epistemology and metaphysics

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Selected Publications

1. Horowitz, A. (1992). Functional role and intentionality. Theoria, 58, 197-218.
2. Horowitz, A. (1996). Putnam, Searle and externalism. Philosophical Studies, 81, 27-69.
3. Horowitz, A. (1999). Is there a problem in physicalist epiphenomenalism? Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 59, 421-434.
4. Horowitz, A. (2000). Legal interpretation, morality, and semantic fetishism. American Philosophical Quarterly, 37, 335-357.
5. Horowitz, A. (2001). Contents just are in the head. Erkenntnis, 54, 321-344.
6. Horowitz, A. & Jacobson-Horowitz, H. (2005). The knowledge arguments and higher-order properties. Ratio, 18, 48-64.
7. Horowitz, A. (2005). Externalism, the environment, and thought-tokens. Erkenntnis, 63, 133-138.
8. Horowitz, A. (2005). How not to argue for a module of language. Logique et Analyse, 48, 223-230.
9. HHorowitz, A. (2006). Disobedience and moral asymmetry: The case of principled disobedience of the political left and right in Israel. Iyyun, 55, 195-213 (Hebrew).
10. Horowitz, A. (2007). Computation, external factors, and cognitive explanations. Philosophical Psychology, 20, 65-80.

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