The Division for Development and Public Relations  
 
IGAL  KVART,   
Status : ACTIVE Birth place : JERUSALEM
Office Phone: Fax:
E-Mail: mskvart@huji.ac.il
U.R.L: http://pluto.huji.ac.il/~mskvart
 
Department Faculty  
PHILOSOPHY FACULTY OF HUMANITIES Dept. Description
 
Academic Degree   Institution Year
Ph.D. UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH 1975
 
Academic Position   Year
PROFESSOR 1998
ASSOC. PROFESSOR 1988
SENIOR LECTURER 1981
LECTURER 1976
 
External Academic Positions
Asst. Prof., Brandeis Univ., 1973
Fellow, Nat'l. Humanities Center, N.C., 1983-84
Univ. of California, 1984-5; Univ. of Chicago, 1985;
Woodrow Wilson Center, 1990-91;
Nat'l Endowment for the Humanities, 1999.
Awards and Honors:
Johnsonian Prize, Journal of Philosophy, 1981
 
Research Interests
Philosophy of science. Philosophy of language.
Epistemology. Metaphysics. Philosophy of mind.
 
Selected Publications
Publication Title   Year
Probabilistic cause, edge conditions, late preemption and 2003
Probabilitistic cause and the thirsty traveler. 2002
The counterfactual analysis of cause. 2001
Lewis' 'Causation as Influence.' 2001
Causal relevance. 2001
Cause and some positive causal impact. 1997
Counterfactual ambiguities, true premises and knowledge. 1994
A theory of thinker reference. 1994
Mediated reference and proper names. 1993
Seeing that and seeing as. 1993
The objective dimension of believing de re. 1992
Divided reference. 1989
A Theory of Counterfactuals. Indianapolis, Hackett 1986
Beliefs and believing. 1986
Kripke's Belief Puzzle. 1986
Quine and modalities de re: A way out? 1982
 
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