School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry

Associate Professor Joel Katzav

Associate Professor in Philosophy, Director of Research Training
+61 7 336 52191
Room E309, Forgan Smith Building (1)
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Qualifications

  • Bachelor of Science, University of Tel Aviv
  • Master of Philosophy, University of Tel Aviv
  • Doctor of Philosophy, University of Cambridge

Current Research Interests

  • The Philosophy of Climate Science
  • Possibilistic epistemology
  • The History of 20th Century Philosophy
  • Twentieth-Century Women Philosophers

Current Research Projects

I am currently engaged in three projects. The first of these continues to articulate and address issues in modal epistemology, especially of climate science. The second project examines and learns from the work of speculative women philosophers from the first half of the twentieth century. The third project examines the work of speculative philosophers of science from the early decades of the twentieth century.

Selected Recent Publications

  • Katzav, Joel (2023). To what extent can institutional control explain the dominance of analytic philosophy?. Asian Journal of Philosophy, 2 (2) 45. doi: 10.1007/s44204-023-00099-7
  • Joel Katzav, Dorothy Rogers and Krist Vaesen eds. (2023). Knowledge, mind and reality: an Introduction by early twentieth-century American women philosophers. Women in the History of Philosophy and Sciences, Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-24437-7
  • Katzav, Joel and Vaesen, Krist (2022).The rise of logical empiricist philosophy of science and the fate of speculative philosophy of science. HOPOS, 12 (2), 327-358. doi: 10.1086/721135
  • Katzav, Joel, Thompson, Erica L., Risbey, James, Stainforth, David A., Bradley, Seamus and Frisch, Mathias (2021). On the appropriate and inappropriate uses of probability distributions in climate projections and some alternatives. Climatic Change, 169 (1-2) 15, 1-20. doi: 10.1007/s10584-021-03267-x
  • Katzav, J. (2018) 'Analytic philosophy, 1925-1969: emergence, management and nature', British Journal for the History of Philosophy, doi.org/10.1080/09608788.2018.1450219 

Biography

After receiving my PhD in Philosophy early in 1999, I worked as a translator and a software engineer. I returned to academia towards the end of 2000 and have, since then, worked at the University of Arkansas, the University of Dundee, the University of Reading, the University of Oxford, the University of Leeds and Eindhoven University of Technology. I have been at the University of Queensland since the start of 2017.

Visit my personal website at: https://sites.google.com/site/joelkatzav/

Publications

Book Chapters (8)
Journal Articles (36)
Department Technical Reports (2)

Book Chapters

Katzav, Joel and Rogers, Dorothy (2023). Introduction. Knowledge, Mind and Reality: An Introduction by Early Twentieth-Century American Women Philosophers. (pp. 291-300) Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-24437-7_26
Katzav, Joel, Rogers, Dorothy and Vaesen, Krist (2023). American women philosophers: institutions, background and thought. Knowledge, mind and reality: an introduction by early twentieth-century American women philosophers. (pp. 1-20) edited by Joel Katzav, Krist Vaesen and Dorothy Rogers. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-24437-7_1
Katzav, Joel and Vaesen, Krist (2023). Introduction. Knowledge, Mind and Reality: An Introduction by Early Twentieth-Century American Women Philosophers. (pp. 23-34) Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-24437-7_2
Katzav, Joel (2023). Introduction. Knowledge, Mind and Reality: An Introduction by Early Twentieth-Century American Women Philosophers. (pp. 237-246) Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-24437-7_22
Katzav, Joel (2023). Introduction. Knowledge, Mind and Reality: An Introduction by Early Twentieth-Century American Women Philosophers. (pp. 69-80) Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-24437-7_7
Katzav, Joel and Vaesen, Krist (2023). Introduction. Knowledge, Mind and Reality: An Introduction by Early Twentieth-Century American Women Philosophers. (pp. 117-129) Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-24437-7_12
Katzav, Joel (2023). Introduction. Knowledge, Mind and Reality: An Introduction by Early Twentieth-Century American Women Philosophers. (pp. 177-187) Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-24437-7_17
Katzav, Joel (2022). The de Lagunas' Dogmatism and Evolution, overcoming modern philosophy and making post-Quinean analytic philosophy. Neglected Classics of Philosophy. (pp. 192-214) edited by Eric Schliesser. New York, NY United States: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/oso/9780190097196.003.0010

Journal Articles

Katzav, Joel (2024). Revisiting Grace de Laguna’s critiques of analytic philosophy and of pragmatism. Asian Journal of Philosophy, 3 (1) 14. doi: 10.1007/s44204-024-00147-w
Katzav, Joel (2023). Epistemic possibilities in climate science: lessons from some recent research in the context of discovery. European Journal for Philosophy of Science, 13 (4) 57. doi: 10.1007/s13194-023-00560-7
Katzav, Joel (2023). Grace de Laguna’s 1909 critique of analytic philosophy: presentation and defence. Asian Journal of Philosophy, 2 (2) 47. doi: 10.1007/s44204-023-00102-1
Katzav, Joel (2023). To what extent can institutional control explain the dominance of analytic philosophy?. Asian Journal of Philosophy, 2 (2) 45. doi: 10.1007/s44204-023-00099-7
Katzav, Joel (2022). Grace de Laguna’s Analytic and Speculative Philosophy. Australasian Philosophical Review, 6 (1), 6-25. doi: 10.1080/24740500.2022.2221835
Katzav, Joel (2022). Response to Commentary on ‘Grace de Laguna’s Analytic and Speculative Philosophy’. Australasian Philosophical Review, 6 (1), 98-109. doi: 10.1080/24740500.2022.2233195
Katzav, Joel and Vaesen, Krist (2022). The rise of logical empiricist philosophy of science and the fate of speculative philosophy of science. HOPOS, 12 (2), 327-358. doi: 10.1086/721135
Katzav, Joel, Thompson, Erica L., Risbey, James, Stainforth, David A., Bradley, Seamus and Frisch, Mathias (2021). On the appropriate and inappropriate uses of probability distributions in climate projections and some alternatives. Climatic Change, 169 (1-2) 15, 1-20. doi: 10.1007/s10584-021-03267-x
Katzav, Joel (2021). Grace de Laguna's analytic and speculative philosophy. Australasian Philosophical Review.
Katzav, Joel (2019). Theodore de Laguna's discovery of the deflationary theory of truth. British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 27 (5), 1-9. doi: 10.1080/09608788.2018.1553769
Vaesen, Krist and Katzav, Joel (2019). The National Science Foundation and philosophy of science's withdrawal from social concerns. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 78, 73-82. doi: 10.1016/j.shpsa.2019.01.001
Katzav, Joel (2018). Analytic philosophy, 1925-1969: emergence, management and nature. British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 26 (6), 1197-1221. doi: 10.1080/09608788.2018.1450219
Katzav, Joel and Parker, Wendy S. (2018). Issues in the theoretical foundations of climate science. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B - Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, 63, 141-149. doi: 10.1016/j.shpsb.2018.02.001
Vaesen, Krist and Katzav, Joel (2017). How much would each researcher receive if competitive government research funding were distributed equally among researchers?. PLoS One, 12 (9) e0183967, e0183967. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0183967
Katzav, J. and Vaesen, K. (2017). Pluralism and peer review in philosophy. Philosophers' Imprint, 17 (19), 1-20.
Katzav, Joel and Vaesen, Krist (2017). On the emergence of American analytic philosophy. British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 25 (4), 772-798. doi: 10.1080/09608788.2016.1261794
von der Heydt, Anna S., Dijkstra, Henk A., van de Wal, Roderik S. W., Caballero, Rodrigo, Crucifix, Michel, Foster, Gavin L., Huber, Matthew, Köhler, Peter, Rohling, Eelco, Valdes, Paul J., Ashwin, Peter, Bathiany, Sebastian, Berends, Tijn, van Bree, Loes G. J., Ditlevsen, Peter, Ghil, Michael, Haywood, Alan M., Katzav, Joel, Lohmann, Gerrit, Lohmann, Johannes, Lucarini, Valerio, Marzocchi, Alice, Pälike, Heiko, Ruvalcaba Baroni, Itzel, Simon, Dirk, Sluijs, Appy, Stap, Lennert B., Tantet, Alexis, Viebahn, Jan and Ziegler, Martin (2016). Lessons on climate sensitivity from past climate changes. Current Climate Change Reports, 2 (4), 148-158. doi: 10.1007/s40641-016-0049-3
Katzav, Joel and Parker, Wendy S. (2015). The future of climate modeling. Climatic Change, 132 (4), 475-487. doi: 10.1007/s10584-015-1435-x
Katzav, Joel and Parker, Wendy S. (2015). Introduction to Assessing climate models: knowledge, values and policy. European Journal for Philosophy of Science, 5 (2), 141-148. doi: 10.1007/s13194-015-0117-x
Katzav, Joel (2014). The epistemology of climate models and some of its implications for climate science and the philosophy of science. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, 46 (Part B), 228-238. doi: 10.1016/j.shpsb.2014.03.001
Katzav, Joel (2013). Severe testing of climate change hypotheses. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, 44 (4), 433-441. doi: 10.1016/j.shpsb.2013.09.003
Katzav, Joel (2013). Dispositions, causes, persistence as is, and general relativity. International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 27 (1), 41-57. doi: 10.1080/02698595.2013.783974
Katzav, Joel (2013). Hybrid models, climate models, and inference to the best explanation. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 64 (1), 107-129. doi: 10.1093/bjps/axs002
Katzav, Joel, Dijkstra, Henk A. and de Laat, A. T. J. (Jos) (2012). Assessing climate model projections: state of the art and philosophical reflections. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, 43 (4), 258-276. doi: 10.1016/j.shpsb.2012.07.002
Katzav, Joel (2011). Should we assess climate model predictions in light of severe tests?. EOS, Transactions American Geophysical Union, 92 (23), 195-195. doi: 10.1029/2011EO230004
Katzav, Joel (2008). The Second-Order Property View of Existence. Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 89 (4), 486-496. doi: 10.1111/j.1468-0114.2008.00332.x
Katzav, Joel and Reed, Chris (2008). Modelling argument recognition and reconstruction. Journal of Pragmatics, 40 (1), 155-172. doi: 10.1016/j.pragma.2007.07.004
Katzav, Joel (2005). On What Powers Cannot Do. Dialectica, 59 (3), 331-345. doi: 10.1111/j.1746-8361.2005.01013.x
Katzav, Joel (2005). Ellis on the limitations of dispositionalism. Analysis, 65 (1), 92-94. doi: 10.1093/analys/65.1.92
Katzav, Joel (2004). Dispositions and the principle of least action. Analysis, 64 (3), 206-214. doi: 10.1093/analys/64.3.206
Katzav, Joel and Reed, Chris (2004). On Argumentation Schemes and the Natural Classification of Arguments. Argumentation, 18 (2), 239-259. doi: 10.1023/B:ARGU.0000024044.34360.82
Katzav, Joel (2004). Horwich on meaning and use. Ratio, 17 (2), 159-175. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9329.2004.00245.x
Katzav, Joel, Reed, Chris and Rowe, G. (2004). Argument Research Corpus. Proceedings of Practical Applications in Language Corpora 2003: Language, Corpora, E-Learning
Katzav, Joel (2002). Humean metaphysics. The Southern Journal of Philosophy, 40 (1), 59-73. doi: 10.1111/j.2041-6962.2002.tb01889.x
Katzav, Joel (2002). Identity, Nature and Ground. Philosophical Topics, 30 (1), 167-187. doi: 10.5840/philtopics20023018
Katzav, Joel (1998). Riggs on strong justification. Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 76 (4), 631-639. doi: 10.1080/00048409812348731

Department Technical Reports

Katzav, Joel and Reed, Chris (2004). A classification system for arguments. Department of Applied Computing, University of Dundee.
Rowe, G. W. A., Reed, Chris and Katzav, Joel (2003). Araucaria: Marking up argument. Working Notes of the European Conference on Computing and Philosophy 2003, Glasgow,

Areas of research

European Philosophy and Ethics
Logic and the Philosophy of Science