Prof. Yemima Ben-Menahem

Prof. Yemima Ben-Menahem is Barbara Druss Dibner Professor of the History of Science Emeritus at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a lecturer in the Department of Philosophy and Jewish Thought at Shalem College.

Prof. Ben-Menahem’s areas of expertise are the philosophy of science, in particular the philosophy of modern physics, and the philosophy of history and of American Pragmatism. She is author of Conventionalism: From Poincaré to Quine (Cambridge, 2006) and editor, among others, of Hilary Putnam (Cambridge, 2005).

Selected Publications

Authored Books

Causation in Science (Princeton University Press, 2018).

Conventionalism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006).


Edited Books

Probability in Physics (with Meir Hemmo) (Springer, Frontiers in Science Series, 2012)

Contemporary Philosophy in Focus: Hilary Putnam (Cambridge University Press, 2005).


Articles

“The Rule of Law: Natural, Human and Divine” (with Hanina Ben-Menahem), Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science 81 (2020), pp. 46–54.

“The PBR Theorem: Whose Side is it on?” Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 57 (2017), pp. 80–88.

“Borges on Replication and Concept Formation,” in: Stepping in the Same River Twice, eds. A. Shavit and A.M. Ellison (Yale University Press, 2017), pp. 23–36.

“Poincare’s Impact on Twentieth Century Physics,” HOPOS 6 (2016), pp. 257–273.

“If Counterfactuals Were Excluded from Historical Reasoning…,” Journal of the Philosophy of History 10 (2016), pp. 370–381.

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