Dr. Olla Solomyak
Dr. Olla Solomyak is a lecturer in the Department of Philosophy and Jewish Thought at Shalem College. She holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from New York University, and from 2014 to 2019 was a Polonsky Fellow at the Van Leer Institute in Jerusalem. Her research focuses on metaphysics, particularly on issues related to time, possibility, and the self.
Selected Publications
“How to be a Perspectival Pluralist,” Philosophy Compass, 19(5) (2024).
“The World to Come: A Perspective,” In Yujin Nagasawa & Mohammad Saleh Zarepour (eds.) Global Dialogues in the Philosophy of Religion: From Religious Experience to the Afterlife. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2024.
“A Puzzle for Realism about Ground,” dialectica, 76(1) (2022), pp. 1-27.
“Above Time: Rabbi Nachman’s Tzaddik and Enlightened Temporal Experience,” The Monist, 104(3) (2021), pp. 410-425.
“Temporal Ontology and the Metaphysics of Perspectives,” Erkenntnis, 85(2) (2020), pp. 431-453.
“Ground and Realism,” In Michael J. Raven (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Metaphysical Grounding. New York: Routledge, 2020.
“Presentism and the Specious Present: From Temporal Experience to Meta-metaphysics,” dialectica, 73(1-2) (2019), pp. 247-266.
“Actuality and the Amodal Perspective,” Philosophical Studies, 164(1) (2013), pp. 15-40.
“The Neural Basis of Obligatory Decomposition of Suffixed Words,” Brain and Language, 118(3) (2011), pp. 118-127. (with G. Lewis and A. Marantz)
“Evidence for Early Morphological Decomposition in Visual Word Recognition,” Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 22(9) (2010), pp. 2042-2057. (with A. Marantz)
“Lexical Access in Early Stages of Visual Word Processing: An MEG Study of Homograph Recognition,” Brain and Language, 103(3) (2009), pp. 191-196. (with A. Marantz)