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  1. Shechtman’s three question marks: possibility, impossibility, and quasicrystals. [REVIEW]Amihud Gilead - 2012 - Foundations of Chemistry 15 (2):209-224.
    The revolutionary discovery of actual quasicrystals, thanks to Dan Shechtman’s stamina, is a golden opportunity to analyze once again the role that pure (“theoretical”) possibilities and saving them plays in scientific progress. Some theoreticians, primarily Alan Mackay, contributed to saving pure possibilities of quasicrystalline structures and to opening materials science for them. My analysis rests upon an original modal metaphysics—panenmentalism—which I introduced and have been developing since 1999, quite independently of any familiarity with modern crystallography, and which deals with saving (...)
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  • Epilogue.[author unknown] - 1983 - Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society 3 (1):98-99.
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  • Pure possibilities and some striking scientific discoveries.Amihud Gilead - 2013 - Foundations of Chemistry 16 (2):149-163.
    Regardless or independent of any actuality or actualization and exempt from spatiotemporal and causal conditions, each individual possibility is pure. Actualism excludes the existence of individual pure possibilities, altogether or at least as existing independently of actual reality. In this paper, I demonstrate, on the grounds of my possibilist metaphysics—panenmentalism—how some of the most fascinating scientific discoveries in chemistry could not have been accomplished without relying on pure possibilities and the ways in which they relate to each other . The (...)
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  • Saving Possibilities: A Study in Philosophical Psychology.Amihud Gilead - 1999 - BRILL.
    This book introduces a new metaphysics which deals with the psycho-physical problem in philosophical psychology, as well as with problems in the scientific standing of psychoanalysis and chaos theory, the feminine psyche, the possibility of cinematic illusion, meaningful madness, and why machines cannot think.
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  • The privacy of the psychical.Amihud Gilead - 2011 - Amsterdam: Rodopi.
    This book argues that the irreducible singularity of each person as a psychical subject implies the privacy of the psychical and that of experience, and yet the private accessibility of each person to his or her mind is compatible with interpersonal communication and understanding. The book treats these major issues against the background of the author's original metaphysics--panenmentalism."--Publisher's website.
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  • Singularity and Other Possibilities: Panenmentalist Novelties.Amihud Gilead - 2003 - BRILL.
    This book elaborates the author's original metaphysics, panenmentalism, focusing on novel aspects of the singularity of any person. Among these aspects, integrated in a systematic view, are: love and singularity; private, intersubjective, and public accessibility; multiple personality; freedom of will; akrasia; a way out of the empiricist-rationalist conundrum; the possibility of God; and some major moral questions.
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  • Actualist fallacies, from fax machines to lunar journeys.Amihud Gilead - 2010 - Philosophy and Literature 34 (1):pp. 173-187.
    Already in 1863, Jules Verne knew about Caselli's "pantelegraphy," which was what he described as a "photographic telegraphy, invented during the last century by Professor Giovanni Caselli of Florence."1 Following the mistaken belief that facsimile machines could not been invented until well after the nineteenth century, and wrongly assuming that Caselli was a fictional inventor, merely a figment of Verne's most productive fertile imagination (as such imaginative elements characterize his latter writings), some of Verne's readers mistakenly ascribed to him the (...)
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  • Necessity and Truthful Fictions: Panenmentalist Observations.Amihud Gilead - 2009 - BRILL.
    This book discovers areas and themes, especially in philosophical psychology, for novel observations and investigations, the diversity of which is systematically unified within the frame of the author’s original metaphysics, panenmentalism. The book demonstrates how by means of truthful fictions we may detect meaningful possibilities as well as their necessary relationships that otherwise could not be discovered.
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  • How Many Pure Possibilities Are There?Amihud Gilead - 2004 - Metaphysica 5 (2):85-103.
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  • A Possibilist Metaphysical Reconsideration Of The Identity Of Indiscernibles And Free Will.Amihud Gilead - 2005 - Metaphysica 6 (2):25-51.
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