Overview
Availability
- Associate Professor Joel Katzav is:
- Available for supervision
- Media expert
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy, University of Cambridge
Research interests
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The Philosophy of Climate Science
The epistemology of climate models and the theoretical foundations of climate science.
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General Philosophy of Science
In particular, epistemology of science, laws of nature and non-causal explanation in science.
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Metaphysics
In particular, existence, laws of nature and methodology.
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History of Twentieth-Century Philosophy
Works
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2024
Journal Article
Revisiting Grace de Laguna’s critiques of analytic philosophy and of pragmatism
Katzav, Joel (2024). Revisiting Grace de Laguna’s critiques of analytic philosophy and of pragmatism. Asian Journal of Philosophy, 3 (1) 14. doi: 10.1007/s44204-024-00147-w
2023
Journal Article
Epistemic possibilities in climate science: lessons from some recent research in the context of discovery
Katzav, Joel (2023). Epistemic possibilities in climate science: lessons from some recent research in the context of discovery. European Journal for Philosophy of Science, 13 (4) 57. doi: 10.1007/s13194-023-00560-7
2023
Journal Article
Grace de Laguna’s 1909 critique of analytic philosophy: presentation and defence
Katzav, Joel (2023). Grace de Laguna’s 1909 critique of analytic philosophy: presentation and defence. Asian Journal of Philosophy, 2 (2) 47. doi: 10.1007/s44204-023-00102-1
2023
Journal Article
To what extent can institutional control explain the dominance of analytic philosophy?
Katzav, Joel (2023). To what extent can institutional control explain the dominance of analytic philosophy?. Asian Journal of Philosophy, 2 (2) 45. doi: 10.1007/s44204-023-00099-7
2023
Book Chapter
Introduction
Katzav, Joel and Rogers, Dorothy (2023). Introduction. Knowledge, Mind and Reality: An Introduction by Early Twentieth-Century American Women Philosophers. (pp. 291-300) Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-24437-7_26
2023
Book
Knowledge, mind and reality: an Introduction by early twentieth-century American women philosophers
Joel Katzav, Dorothy Rogers and Krist Vaesen eds. (2023). Knowledge, mind and reality: an Introduction by early twentieth-century American women philosophers. Women in the History of Philosophy and Sciences, Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-24437-7
2023
Book Chapter
Introduction
Katzav, Joel (2023). Introduction. Knowledge, Mind and Reality: An Introduction by Early Twentieth-Century American Women Philosophers. (pp. 237-246) Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-24437-7_22
2023
Book Chapter
Introduction
Katzav, Joel (2023). Introduction. Knowledge, Mind and Reality: An Introduction by Early Twentieth-Century American Women Philosophers. (pp. 69-80) Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-24437-7_7
2023
Book Chapter
American women philosophers: institutions, background and thought
Katzav, Joel, Rogers, Dorothy and Vaesen, Krist (2023). American women philosophers: institutions, background and thought. Knowledge, mind and reality: an introduction by early twentieth-century American women philosophers. (pp. 1-20) edited by Joel Katzav, Krist Vaesen and Dorothy Rogers. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-24437-7_1
2023
Book Chapter
Introduction
Katzav, Joel and Vaesen, Krist (2023). Introduction. Knowledge, Mind and Reality: An Introduction by Early Twentieth-Century American Women Philosophers. (pp. 117-129) Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-24437-7_12
2023
Book Chapter
Introduction
Katzav, Joel and Vaesen, Krist (2023). Introduction. Knowledge, Mind and Reality: An Introduction by Early Twentieth-Century American Women Philosophers. (pp. 23-34) Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-24437-7_2
2023
Book Chapter
Introduction
Katzav, Joel (2023). Introduction. Knowledge, Mind and Reality: An Introduction by Early Twentieth-Century American Women Philosophers. (pp. 177-187) Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-24437-7_17
2022
Book Chapter
The de Lagunas' Dogmatism and Evolution, overcoming modern philosophy and making post-Quinean analytic philosophy
Katzav, Joel (2022). The de Lagunas' Dogmatism and Evolution, overcoming modern philosophy and making post-Quinean analytic philosophy. Neglected Classics of Philosophy. (pp. 192-214) edited by Eric Schliesser. New York, NY United States: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/oso/9780190097196.003.0010
2022
Journal Article
Grace de Laguna’s Analytic and Speculative Philosophy
Katzav, Joel (2022). Grace de Laguna’s Analytic and Speculative Philosophy. Australasian Philosophical Review, 6 (1), 6-25. doi: 10.1080/24740500.2022.2221835
2022
Journal Article
Response to Commentary on ‘Grace de Laguna’s Analytic and Speculative Philosophy’
Katzav, Joel (2022). Response to Commentary on ‘Grace de Laguna’s Analytic and Speculative Philosophy’. Australasian Philosophical Review, 6 (1), 98-109. doi: 10.1080/24740500.2022.2233195
2022
Journal Article
The rise of logical empiricist philosophy of science and the fate of speculative philosophy of science
Katzav, Joel and Vaesen, Krist (2022). The rise of logical empiricist philosophy of science and the fate of speculative philosophy of science. HOPOS, 12 (2), 327-358. doi: 10.1086/721135
2021
Journal Article
On the appropriate and inappropriate uses of probability distributions in climate projections and some alternatives
Katzav, Joel, Thompson, Erica L., Risbey, James, Stainforth, David A., Bradley, Seamus and Frisch, Mathias (2021). On the appropriate and inappropriate uses of probability distributions in climate projections and some alternatives. Climatic Change, 169 (1-2) 15, 1-20. doi: 10.1007/s10584-021-03267-x
2021
Journal Article
Grace de Laguna's analytic and speculative philosophy
Katzav, Joel (2021). Grace de Laguna's analytic and speculative philosophy. Australasian Philosophical Review.
2019
Journal Article
Theodore de Laguna's discovery of the deflationary theory of truth
Katzav, Joel (2019). Theodore de Laguna's discovery of the deflationary theory of truth. British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 27 (5), 1-9. doi: 10.1080/09608788.2018.1553769
2019
Journal Article
The National Science Foundation and philosophy of science's withdrawal from social concerns
Vaesen, Krist and Katzav, Joel (2019). The National Science Foundation and philosophy of science's withdrawal from social concerns. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 78, 73-82. doi: 10.1016/j.shpsa.2019.01.001
Supervision
Availability
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- Available for supervision
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Available projects
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Metaphysics
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Philosophy of Science
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History of 20th Century Philosophy
Supervision history
Current supervision
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Master Philosophy
The Nature of Science for Science Education: A Bungean Theoretical Framework
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Peter Ellerton
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Master Philosophy
Testimony: A Social Solution to the Problem of Other Minds
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Peter Evans
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Doctor Philosophy
Subject, Self, and Language: Henri Bergson and Slavoj Zizek
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Marguerite La Caze
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Doctor Philosophy
Luce Irigaray and the Salvic Potential of the Horizontal
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Michelle Boulous Walker
Completed supervision
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2023
Doctor Philosophy
A Naturalistic Framework for Metaphysics
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Guillermo Badia
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2019
Doctor Philosophy
Context-indexed Counterfactuals and Non-vacuous Counterpossibles
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Deborah Brown
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2024
Master Philosophy
Cultivated Wisdom, Knowledge, and Discerning Insight: A Study of Jnana in the Samkhya Textual Tradition
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Adam Bowles
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2020
Doctor Philosophy
The limits of classical mereology: Mixed fusions and the failures of mereological hybridism
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Honorary Professor Daniel Nolan, Dr Peter Evans
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