Avraham Sommer
Publications
“A Neglected Argument of Hutcheson’s on Moral Motivation,” Journal of Scottish Philosophy 24/1 (2026), pp. 21-38. [preprint]
[final]
“Tradition, Rationality, Relativism, and Seeking Converts,” Philosophical Exchange 1/1 (2026), pp. 61-70. [final]
“Degrees of Divine Revelation,” The Journal of Analytic Theology 13/1 (2025), pp. 62-79. [final]
“Mitzvot,” co-authored with Israel Cohen, forthcoming in The Encyclopedia of Skepticism and the Jewish Tradition (Brill). [preprint]
Contribution to a digital symposium on Jerome Gellman, The People, the Torah, the God, November 2024, [final].
Dissertation
A Study in Leibniz's Alethiology (in progress)
Presentations
"A Neo-Maimonidean Theory of Prophecy," presented at the meeting Association for the Philosophy of Judaism at the 2023 APA Central Division meeting and at the 2023 meeting of the Long Island Philosophical Society
“Descartes’ Case that We Have an Idea of God,” presented at the Natural Theology graduate conference at St. Louis University, Fall of 2023
“Degrees of Divine Revelation,” presented at the meeting of the Association for the Philosophy of Judaism at the 2024 APA Eastern Division meeting and at the summer 2025 World Congress of Jewish Studies
“An Argument of Hutcheson on Moral Motivation,” presented at the 2024 meeting of the Long Island Philosophical Society
“An Interpretation of Leibniz’s Propositional Terms,” presented at the 2025 meeting of the Long Island Philosophical Society
“Might Persons be Collective Substances for Locke? An Unexplored Possibility in the Debate over Locke's Conception of Persons,” presented at the Rutgers-Tel Aviv conference on persons, summer 2025
“Some Difficulties with Leibniz’s Definition of Substance,” presented at the University of Haifa, January 2026
“Tradition, Rationality, Relativism, and Seeking Converts," presented at the 2026 meeting of the Long Island Philosophical Society