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  1. Against Mathematical Explanation.Mark Zelcer - 2013 - Journal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 44 (1):173-192.
    Lately, philosophers of mathematics have been exploring the notion of mathematical explanation within mathematics. This project is supposed to be analogous to the search for the correct analysis of scientific explanation. I argue here that given the way philosophers have been using “ explanation,” the term is not applicable to mathematics as it is in science.
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  2. Reading the Menexenus Intertextually.Mark Zelcer - 2018 - In Harold Parker & Max Robitzsch (eds.), Speeches for the Dead: Essays on Plato's Menexenus. de Gruyter. pp. 29-49.
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    (1 other version)Politics and Philosophy in Plato's Menexenus: Education and rhetoric, myth and history.Nickolas Pappas & Mark Zelcer - 2014 - New York, USA: Routledge. Edited by Mark Zelcer.
    Menexenus is one of the least studied among Plato's works, mostly because of the puzzling nature of the text, which has led many scholars either to reject the dialogue as spurious or to consider it as a mocking parody of Athenian funeral rhetoric. In this book, Pappas and Zelcer provide a persuasive alternative reading of the text, one that contributes in many ways to our understanding of Plato, and specifically to our understanding of his political thought. The book is organized (...)
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    Conscientious Objection and the Transformative Nature of War.Mark Zelcer - 2015 - Journal of Military Ethics 14 (2):118-122.
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    The Role of Symmetry in Mathematics.Noson S. Yanofsky & Mark Zelcer - 2017 - Foundations of Science 22 (3):495-515.
    Over the past few decades the notion of symmetry has played a major role in physics and in the philosophy of physics. Philosophers have used symmetry to discuss the ontology and seeming objectivity of the laws of physics. We introduce several notions of symmetry in mathematics and explain how they can also be used in resolving different problems in the philosophy of mathematics. We use symmetry to discuss the objectivity of mathematics, the role of mathematical objects, the unreasonable effectiveness of (...)
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    Mathematics via Symmetry.Noson Yanofsky & Mark Zelcer - unknown
    We state the defining characteristic of mathematics as a type of symmetry where one can change the connotation of a mathematical statement in a certain way when the statement's truth value remains the same. This view of mathematics as satisfying such symmetry places mathematics as comparable with modern views of physics and science where, over the past century, symmetry also plays a defining role. We explore the very nature of mathematics and its relationship with natural science from this perspective. This (...)
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  7. Plato on International Relations.Mark Zelcer - 2017 - Philosophical Forum 48 (3):325-339.
    Plato’s political philosophy is usually seen in the context of domestic politics, justice within a polis. This essay argues that Plato had views on international relations theory as well. We show that Plato had a theory of the causes of international conflict, and that his theory can be seen as a response to Thucydides’ theory as well as theories espoused by other Greek thinkers. Plato’s theory can be generalized to a theory of causation in the social sciences. He also had (...)
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    Plato’s Menexenus as a History that Falls into Patterns.Nickolas Pappas & Mark Zelcer - 2013 - Ancient Philosophy 33 (1):19-31.
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    Ethics for the weekends: The case of reservists.Mark Zelcer - 2012 - Journal of Military Ethics 11 (4):333-352.
    This essay argues that a military's reserve force occupies an important and overlooked ethical position. It shows that, among other things, reservists pose special challenges to virtue ethics accounts of military personnel, an understanding of the relationship between a government and its military, as well as standard questions about jus in bello.
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  10. A cognitive neuroscience, dual-systems approach to the sorites paradox.Leib Litman & Mark Zelcer - 2013 - Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence 25 (3):355-366.
    Typical approaches to resolving the sorites paradox attempt to show, in one way or another, that the sorites argument is not paradoxical after all. However, if one can show that the sorites is not really paradoxical, the task remains of explaining why it appears to be a paradox. Our approach begins by addressing the appearance of paradox and then explores what this means for the paradox itself. We examine the sorites from the perspective of the various brain systems that are (...)
     
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  11. A flow-chart approach to the Ontological Argument.Mark Zelcer - 2003 - APA Newsletter on Teaching Philosophy 2 (2):232-233.
     
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    A Translation of “Beliefs and Opinions in Light of the Natural Sciences”.Mark Zelcer & Abraham Adolf Fraenkel - 2012 - Hakirah 12:209-232.
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  13. (1 other version)Military Psychological Operations: Ethics and policy considerations.Mark Zelcer, Garrett vanPelt & Devin Casey - 2018 - In David Boonin (ed.), Palgrave Handbook of Philosophy and Public Policy. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 111-122.
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    Putnam on metaphysics, religion, and ethics: Critical notice of jewish philosophy as a guide to life: Rosenzweig, Buber, Levinas, Wittgenstein.Mark Zelcer - 2009 - Philosophical Forum 40 (3):425-434.
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    The Philosophy of Joseph B. Soloveitchik.Heshey Zelcer & Mark Zelcer - 2021 - New York, NY: Routledge. Edited by Mark Zelcer.
    Providing a concise but comprehensive overview of Joseph B. Soloveitchik's larger philosophical program, this book studies one of the most important modern Orthodox Jewish thinkers. It incorporates much relevant biographical, philosophical, religious, legal, and historical background so that the content and difficult philosophical concepts are easily accessible. The volume describes his view of Jewish law and how he answers the fundamental question of Jewish philosophy, namely, the "reasons" for the commandments. It shows how many of his disparate books, essays, and (...)
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    Mathematicians are certain but open to new ideas: Mark Wilson: Innovation and certainty. Cambridge elements in the philosophy of mathematics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020, 74 pp, $20 PB. [REVIEW]Mark Zelcer - 2022 - Metascience 31 (1):45-48.
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    A wide-ranging collection on arithmetic and other matters: Review of Storrs McCall’s: The Consistency of Arithmetic: and other essays. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014, 240 pp, £48.00 HB. [REVIEW]Mark Zelcer - 2015 - Metascience 24 (3):479-481.
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    A finite review of a finite book on an infinite topic: Alexander R. Pruss: Infinity, causation, and paradox. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 207pp, $60.00. [REVIEW]Mark Zelcer - 2019 - Metascience 28 (2):349-351.
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    A glimpse of some topics in contemporary philosophy of mathematics: John P. Burgess: Rigor and structure. Oxford University Press, 2015, 215 pp, £35.00 HB. [REVIEW]Mark Zelcer - 2015 - Metascience 25 (1):147-150.
  20. Review of E. Brian Davies, Why Beliefs Matter: Reflections on the Nature of Science. [REVIEW]Mark Zelcer - 2014 - Science, Religion and Culture 1 (3):141-143.
     
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    Philosophy Friends! by Francisco Mejia Uribe. [REVIEW]Mark Zelcer & Max Zelcer - 2021 - Philosophy Now 142:46-47.
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    Review of Andrew Aberdein and Matthew Inglis (eds), Advances in Experimental Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics: New York: Bloomsbury Academic Publishers, 2019, 296 pages, $114. [REVIEW]Mark Zelcer - 2020 - Philosophia 48 (3):1283-1287.
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    (1 other version)Review of Noson Yanofsky, The Outer Limits of Reason: What Science, Mathematics and Logic Cannot Tell Us. [REVIEW]Mark Zelcer - 2014 - Philosophical Quarterly 64 (255):383-385.
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    Reflections on recollections: a Jewish mathematician’s life: Abraham A. Fraenkel. Recollections of a Jewish mathematician in Germany. Jiska Cohen-Mansfield , Allison Brown . Switzerland: Springer International Publishing, $89.99 HB. [REVIEW]Mark Zelcer - 2017 - Metascience 26 (3):503-505.
  25. The Cyrenaics. [REVIEW]Mark Zelcer - 2011 - Philosophical Forum 42 (3):273-273.
     
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