Prof. Yuval Dolev

Prof. Yuval Dolev teaches philosophy at Bar-Ilan University and Shalem College. He holds a bachelor’s in physics and mathematics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a Ph.D. in philosophy from Harvard. Between 2009-2011 he served as the head of the philosophy department at Bar-Ilan, and as a guest lecturer at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver and at Harvard.

He is the author of the book Time and Realism, published by MIT Press, and of numerous academic articles on philosophy and metaphysics.

Selected Publications

Books

Time and Realism: Metaphysical and Antimetaphysical Perspectives, MIT Press (2007), 248 pp.

Edited Books

Cosmological and Psychological Time, Y. Dolev and M. Roubach eds., Springer, Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science (2016).

Journal Articles

"The Present's Uniqueness," Philosophical Investigations 45:1 (2022), pp. 3-20.

"Why Physics is Not Wrong on Temporal Directionality, and Why this is Not Necessarily Good News for Physicalism," Foundations of Science (2021).

"Three Remarks on Mathematical Perception," The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy (2021).

“On the Essence of Temporal Directionality and its Irreversibility,” Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences (July 2018).

"Physics' Silence on Time," European Journal for the Philosophy of Science (January 2018).

"Is Ontology the Key to Understanding Tense?" Synthese, 195:4 (2016), pp. 1741-1749.

"Antirealism, Presentism and Bivalence," International Journal of Philosophical Studies 18:1 (2010), 73-89.

"Time and Ontology," Iyyun, The Jerusalem Philosophical Quarterly 58 (2009), pp. 292-300.     

“Semantic Externalism and Presentism,” The International Journal of Philosophical Studies 16:4 (2008), pp. 533-557.

“Mission Impossible and Wittgenstein’s Standard Meter,” Philosophical Investigations 30:2 (April 2007), pp. 127-137.

“Super-tasks and Temporal Continuity,” Iyyun, The Jerusalem Philosophical Quarterly 56 (2007), pp. 313-329.

“Why Induction is No Cure for Baldness,” Philosophical Investigations 27:4 (October 2004), pp. 328-346.

“Space and Time: Some (Dis)Analogies,” Iyyun, The Jerusalem Philosophical Quarterly 49 (January 2000), pp. 61-72.

“Dummett’s Antirealism and Time,” The European Journal of Philosophy 8:3 (December 2000), pp. 253-276.

“The Tenseless Theory of Time: Insights and Limitations,” The Review of Metaphysics 54 (December 2000), pp. 259-288.

Chapters in Books

"Infinite Divisibility vs. Absolute Indivisibility: The Great Gap Between Einstein and Bergson and its Origins," in The Bergsonian Mind, Routledge, 2022, pp. 235-248.

"Einstein vs Bergson, Scientism vs. Humanism," in The Quarrel of Time: Einstein vs Bergson, De Gruyter, 2022, pp. 15-34.

"Relativity, Global Tense and Phenomenology," in Cosmological and Psychological Time, Y. Dolev and M. Roubach, eds., Springer, Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 2016.

"Motion and Passage – The Old B-Theory and Phenomenology," in Debates in the Metaphysics of Time. L. N. Oaklander, ed., Bloomsbury, 2014, pp. 31-50.

"Realism, Tense and Context-Sensitivity," in Defending Realism, B. Guido, G. Jesson, and J. Cumpa, eds., De Gruyter, 2014.

"A Real Present Without Presentism," in New Papers on the Present. R. Ciuni, K. Miller, and G. Torrengo, eds., Philosophia Verlag, 2013, pp. 307-329.

"Perceiving Transience," in The Future of the Philosophy of Time, A. Bardoned., ed., Routledge, 2012.

“How to Square a Non-Local Present with Relativity Theory,” in The Ontology of Spacetime, D. Dieks, ed., Elsevier B.V. 2006.

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