Panenmentalist Philosophy of Science

Amihud Gilead was born in Jerusalem in 1947. He is a Professor Emeritus at the Department of philosophy, the University of Haifa. For many years, his main research was devoted to the study of the history of philosophy, especially of early modern philosophy. From 1999 till now he introduced and has elaborated on an original modal metaphysics, panenmentalism, which is a special kind of possibilist realism about individual pure (non-actual) possibilities. Professor Gilead published various books and papers, most of them in English.

• Acknowledgments.- 1. Introduction.- 2. How Many Pure Possibilities Are There? Or Contra Actualism.- 3. A Panenmentalist Consideration of the Identity of Indiscernibles.- 4. Two Kinds of Discovery: An Ontological Account.- 5. Mathematical Possibilities and their Discovery.- 6. A Panenmentalist Approach to Molyneux’s Problem and Some Empirical Findings.- 7. Pure Possibilities and Some Striking Scientific Discoveries.- 8. The Philosophical Significance of Alan Mackay’s Theoretical Discovery of Quasicrystals.- 9. Shechtman’s Three Question Marks: Possibility, Impossibility, and Quasicrystals.- 10. Eka-Elements as Chemical Pure Possibilities.- 11. Quantum Pure Possibility and Macroscopic Physics.- 12. Brain-images and the Human Mind.- 13. Neoteny and the Playground of Pure Possibilities.- 14. Milgram’s Experience and Saving Possibilities.- 15. Singularity and Uniqueness: Why Is Our Immune System Subject to Psychological and Cognitive Traits?.- References.- Index.