The Philosopher
Carl Posy
The face
The background
- Nationality:
- Israeli
- Schools:
- Kantianism
- Period:
- unknown
The synopsis
Carl Jeffrey Posy is an Israeli philosopher and a full professor emeritus in the Department of Philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Jerusalem, Israel. He received his PhD degree from Yale University in the United States in 1971. Posy's areas of research interest include the philosophy of mathematics, philosophical logic, and the history of philosophy, particularly Kant and his predecessors. His publications include "Kant's Philosophy of Mathematics: Modern Essays" (Springer, 1992) and "Computability: Turing, Gödel, Church, and Beyond" (with Jack Copeland and Oron Shagrir, MIT Press, 2013). He is also a former Academic Director of the National Library of Israel.
The works
Kant’s Philosophy of Mathematics: Modern Essays
Computability: Turing, Gödel, Church, and Beyond