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    Fast planning through planning graph analysis.Avrim L. Blum & Merrick L. Furst - 1997 - Artificial Intelligence 90 (1-2):281-300.
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    Self-reflection in the arts and sciences.Alan Blum - 1984 - Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities Press. Edited by Peter McHugh.
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    The state is not abolished, it withers away: How quantum field theory became a theory of scattering.Alexander S. Blum - 2017 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 60:46-80.
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    Taking approximations seriously: The cases of the Chew and Nambu-Jona-Lasinio models.Pablo Ruiz de Olano, James D. Fraser, Rocco Gaudenzi & Alexander S. Blum - 2022 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 93 (C):82-95.
    In this article, we offer a detailed study of two important episodes in the early history of high-energy physics, namely the development of the Chew and the Nambu-Jona-Lasinio models. Our study reveals that both models resulted from the combination of an old Hamiltonian, which had been introduced by earlier researchers, and two new approximation methods developed by Chew and by Nambu and Jona-Lasinio. These new approximation methods, furthermore, were the key component behind the models’ success. We take this historical investigation (...)
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    The birth of quantum mechanics from the spirit of radiation theory.Alexander S. Blum & Martin Jähnert - 2022 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 91 (C):125-147.
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    Necessity of identity and Tarski's T‐schema.Alex Blum - 2022 - Philosophical Investigations 46 (2):264-265.
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    Theorizing.Alan F. Blum - 1974 - London,: Heinemann.
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    The Kantian versus Frankfurt.Alex Blum - 2000 - Analysis 60 (3):287-288.
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    Translation as heuristics: Heisenberg׳s turn to matrix mechanics.Alexander Blum, Martin Jähnert, Christoph Lehner & Jürgen Renn - 2017 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 60:3-22.
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    Real Virtuality and Actual Transitions: Historical Reflections on Virtual Entities before Quantum Field Theory.Alexander S. Blum & Martin Jähnert - 2024 - Perspectives on Science 32 (3):329-349.
    This paper studies the notion of virtuality in the Bohr-Kramers-Slater theory of 1924. We situate the virtual entities of BKS within the tradition of the correspondence principle and the radiation theory of the Bohr model. We show how, in this context, virtual oscillators emerged as classical substitute radiators and were used to describe the otherwise elusive quantum transitions. They played an effective role in the quantum theory of radiation while remaining categorically distinct and ontologically separated from the quantum world of (...)
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    From dressed electrons to quasiparticles: The emergence of emergent entities in quantum field theory.Alexander S. Blum & Christian Joas - 2016 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 53:1-8.
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    The Reinvention of General Relativity: A Historiographical Framework for Assessing One Hundred Years of Curved Space-time.Alexander Blum, Roberto Lalli & Jürgen Renn - 2015 - Isis 106 (3):598-620.
    The history of the theory of general relativity presents unique features. After its discovery, the theory was immediately confirmed and rapidly changed established notions of space and time. The further implications of general relativity, however, remained largely unexplored until the mid 1950s, when it came into focus as a physical theory and gradually returned to the mainstream of physics. This essay presents a historiographical framework for assessing the history of general relativity by taking into account in an integrated narrative intellectual (...)
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    Pictorial representation in biology.Peter J. Taylor & Ann S. Blum - 1991 - Biology and Philosophy 6 (2):125-134.
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    Selection of relevant features and examples in machine learning.Avrim L. Blum & Pat Langley - 1997 - Artificial Intelligence 97 (1-2):245-271.
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    QED and the man who didn׳t make it: Sidney Dancoff and the infrared divergence.Alexander S. Blum - 2015 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 50:70-94.
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    The enigma of the brain and its place as cause, character and pretext in the imaginary of dementia.Alan Blum - 2012 - History of the Human Sciences 25 (4):108-124.
    An analysis of the collective engagement with the disease known as Alzheimer’s and the dementia reputed of it reveals recourse to a socially standardized formula that attributes causal agency to the brain in the absence of clinching knowledge. I propose that what Baudrillard calls the model of molecular idealism stipulates such a neurological view of determinism in order to provide caregivers with reassurance in the face of the perplexing character of dementia and the depressing reactions to mortality that it brings (...)
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    N.Alex Blum - 2000 - Analysis 60 (3):284-286.
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    Quantum mechanics, radiation, and the equivalence proof.Alexander Blum & Martin Jähnert - 2024 - Archive for History of Exact Sciences 78 (5):567-616.
    This paper re-evaluates the formative year of quantum mechanics—from Heisenberg’s first paper on matrix mechanics to Schrödinger’s equivalence proof—by focusing on the role of radiation in the emerging theory. We argue that the radiation problem played a key role in early quantum mechanics, a role that has not been taken into account in the standard histories. Radiation was perceived by the main protagonists of matrix and wave mechanics as a central lacuna in these emerging theories and continued to contribute to (...)
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    Socrates, the original and its images.Alan F. Blum - 1978 - Boston: Routledge and Kegan Paul.
    This book, first published in 1978, is a radical approach to the philosophical distinction between Being and beings, in which the life of Socrates is used as the metaphor for the theoretical life, in contrast to the continuous historical interest in that life as an object for biographical reconstruction and description. Professor Blum's main concern is to develop a story that coordinates stages of the theoretical life to practices which exemplify man's ideal relationship with language.
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  20. The core of the consequence argument.Alex Blum - 2003 - Dialectica 57 (4):423-429.
    We suggest that the classical version of the consequence argument contending that freedom and determinism are incompatible subtly misstates the core intuition, which is that if a true conditional and a true antecedent are jointly beyond our control, then so is the consequent. We show however that the improved version no less than the classical implies fatalism.Interestingly, the reasoning, that yields fatalism, undermines a direct argument for the soundness of the improved version. But if fatalism is sound, then trivially, so (...)
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  21. The melancholy life world of the university.Alan Blum - 1991 - Dianoia 2 (1):16-42.
     
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  22. When is a statement not a statement? when it'sa liar.L. Goldstein & A. Blum - 2008 - The Reasoner 2 (2):4-6.
     
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    On the Argument for the Necessity of Identity.Alex Blum - 2023 - Symposion: Theoretical and Applied Inquiries in Philosophy and Social Sciences 10 (2):169-171.
    We show that the thesis that identity is necessary is equivalent to the thesis that everything is necessarily what it is. Hence the challenges facing either, faces them both.
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    (1 other version)The Force of Truth.Alex Blum - 2011 - Philosophical Investigations 34 (4):393-395.
    The theme of the paper is that what is true cannot be false and conversely. This position was anticipated by Aristotle in De Interpretatione and by G. H. von Wright. The latter calls it “a truth of the logic of relative modalities.”Aristotle has been taken to task by Susan Haack and others for arguing fallaciously from the Principle of Bivalence, that every statement is either true or false, to fatalism. The implication holds, but we show that it is unreasonable to (...)
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    ‘On the necessity of identity and Tarski's T‐schema’—A response to Davood Hosseini.Alex Blum - 2024 - Philosophical Investigations 47 (2):270-271.
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    Positive thinking.Alan F. Blum - 1974 - Theory and Society 1 (3):245-269.
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    On a Conception of Essence.Alex Blum - 2024 - Symposion: Theoretical and Applied Inquiries in Philosophy and Social Sciences 11 (1):7-8.
    It is contended that unless everything is necessarily what it is, the essence of an object cannot be a property of the object which the object could not have failed to have. But if everything is necessarily what it is, then no identity statement is contingent.
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    (1 other version)Can It Be that Tully=Cicero?Alex Blum - forthcoming - Symposion. Theoretical and Applied Inquiries in Philosophy and Social Sciences.
    Alex Blum ABSTRACT: We show, that given two fundamental theses of Kripke, no statement of the form ‘‘a=b’ is necessarily true’, is true, if ‘a’ and ‘b’ are distinct rigid designators. Download PDF.
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    On the history of the quantum. Introduction to the HQ4 special issue.Jaume Navarro, Alexander Blum & Christoph Lehner - 2017 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 60:1-2.
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  30. Foreknowledge and Free Will.Alex Blum - 2012 - Organon F: Medzinárodný Časopis Pre Analytickú Filozofiu 19 (1):55-57.
    We contend that since what is true cannot be false, foreknowledge is transparently incompatible with free will. We argue that what is crucial to the conflict is the role of truth in foreknowledge and that the identity of the one who foreknows is irrelevant.
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    Guide(s) for the Perplexed.Alan Blum - 2015 - Philosophy and Rhetoric 48 (1):54-72.
    This article compares science and the novel as different rhetorical strategies for representing relationships to the limits of knowledge and what seems unknown. I draw on Kenneth Burke's figure of “equipment for living” to revive the question of the value of knowledge and art for life, identifying the comparison between science and the humanities itself as a social phenomenon and focusing on the uses and rhetorical value of such disciplines and of literature for life in a period ruled by concerns (...)
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    Aging as a Social Form: The Phenomenology of the Passage.Alan Blum - 2014 - Journal of Medical Humanities 35 (1):19-36.
    If philosophers have discussed life as preparation for death, this seems to make aging coterminous with dying and a melancholy passage that we are condemned to survive. It is important to examine the discourse on aging and end of life and the ways various models either limit possibilities for human agency or suggest means of being innovative in relation to such parameters. I challenge developmental views of aging not by arguing for eternal life, but by using Plato’s conception of form (...)
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    On Everything Is Necessarily What It Is.Alex Blum - 2023 - Organon F: Medzinárodný Časopis Pre Analytickú Filozofiu 30 (3):278-280.
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    On Changing the Past.Alex Blum - 2013 - Organon F: Medzinárodný Časopis Pre Analytickú Filozofiu 20 (3):377-378.
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  35. Laws and instantial statements.Alex Blum - 1970 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 21 (4):371-378.
    In 'The Structure of Science' Nagel contends that a deductive explanation of the occurrence of an individual event must contain at least one instantial statement as a premiss (Nagel, 1961, p. 31). I shall defend a version of his contention.
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    Einstein’s second-biggest blunder: the mistake in the 1936 gravitational-wave manuscript of Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen.Alexander S. Blum - 2022 - Archive for History of Exact Sciences 76 (6):623-632.
    In a 1936 manuscript submitted to the Physical Review, Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen famously claimed that gravitational waves do not exist. It has generally been assumed that there was a conceptual error underlying this fallacious claim. It will be shown, through a detailed study of the extant referee report, that this claim was probably only the result of a calculational error, the accidental use of a pathological coordinate transformation.
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    John Wheeler’s Desert Island: The conservatism of non-empirical physics.Alexander S. Blum - 2021 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 90 (C):219-225.
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  38. A Purported Theorem of Epistemic Logic.Alex Blum - 1996 - Teorema: International Journal of Philosophy 16 (1):105-106.
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    Arithmetic and Logic Incompleteness: the Link.Laureano Luna & Alex Blum - 2008 - The Reasoner 2 (3):6.
    We show how second order logic incompleteness follows from incompleteness of arithmetic, as proved by Gödel.
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    A correction in Copi's account of Boolean normal forms.Alex Blum - 1973 - Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 14 (2):288-288.
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    A logic of belief.Alex Blum - 1976 - Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 17 (3):344-348.
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    A note on natural deduction.Alex Blum - 1974 - Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 15 (2):349-350.
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    (1 other version)Discussion: Tractatus 2.063.Alex Blum - 1989 - Philosophical Investigations 12 (4):325-326.
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    (1 other version)Nozick on indeterministic free will.Alex Blum & Stanley Malinovich - 1986 - Journal of Chinese Philosophy 13 (4):471-473.
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    Quine on an alleged non sequitur.Alex Blum - 1981 - Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 22 (3):249-250.
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    The missing premiss.Alex Blum - 1970 - Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 11 (2):203-204.
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    The Contact Between Agricultural Extension and Family Farmers in Israel — With some International Comparisons.Moshe Azencot & Abraham Blum - 1991 - Communications 16 (2):251-262.
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    An Anomaly in the D–N Model of Explanation.Alex Blum - 1989 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 40 (3):365-367.
    It is argued that the constraints placed on the non-law premisses of a D–N explanation are irrelevant to their function and will not salvage the deductive requirement from triviality.
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    Analyticity and truth in all possible worlds.Alex Blum - 1983 - Noûs 17 (2):281-289.
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    (1 other version)Aristotle and the Future.Alex Blum - forthcoming - Symposion. Theoretical and Applied Inquiries in Philosophy and Social Sciences.
    Alex Blum ABSTRACT: We intend to show that Aristotle’s contention that future tense contingent statements are neither true nor false leads to inconsistency. Download PDF.
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