Dr. Alik Pelman

Dr. Pelman is a senior lecturer in the Master Degree in Design (M.Des). His research and teaching areas include: environmental thought; philosophy of technology; philosophy of natural and social sciences; philosophy of language, and metaphysics. Dr. Pelman regularly publishes and presents his research at national and international conferences, and serves as a peer reviewer for leading philosophy journals. He has been the co-researcher in two Israeli Science Foundation (ISF) studies. Dr. Pelman has been nominated “Outstanding Teacher” a number of times.

 

Alongside Shenkar, he serves as a research fellow at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. Dr. Pelman holds a PhD in philosophy from the University of London (on an ORS scholarship), where he wrote his doctoral dissertation on the relations between language and reality. 

Living in the Galilee, Alik’s home is an eco-hut that he built himself from natural local materials (including a green roof, passive cooling, mass heater, greywater system, solar power). There, he runs a small self-sufficient farm (wheat, vegetables, legumes, olive oil, eggs, honey). On his farm, he also instructs groups and gives seminars on practical ecology. Dr. Pelman is a graduate of the Heschel Fellows Program, at the Heschel Center for Sustainability. 

 

Notable Publications

 

• The Philosophy of Science, Open University Press, (Hebrew, forthcoming 2021), textbook comprising 10 units, each of which is peer-reviewed by four specialists.
• ‘How judgments of visual resemblance are induced by visual experience’ 2021 (with Alon Chasid), Journal of Consciousness Studies, forthcoming. ISF-funded project
•  ‘The Complex Mechanism of Reference Fixing.’ Acta Analytica (2017), 32 (4): 385-396.
• ‘Metaphysics of Pain, Semantics of ‘Pain.’ Ratio (2015), 28 (3): 302-317. 
• ‘Theoretical Identities May Not Be Necessary,’ Analysis, 74, 3 (2014), 412-422.
• ‘A Blueprint for a Calculator of Intensions,’ in B. Bennett and C. Fellbaum (eds.), Formal Ontology (Amsterdam: IOS Press, 2006), 193-203.

 

Extra-Curricular Publications

 

• Alik Pelman, Way, (2021) Tel Aviv: Asia Publishers (Hebrew). 
• Alik Pelman, “Card file” (2018) in Eco-Poetry, Tel Aviv: Helikon Journal of Poetry 123 (Hebrew).

 

Courses taught at Shenkar

 

• Eco-Philosophy – Environmental Thought

• Standard of Living vs. Quality of Life – A Designer’s Perspective 

• Seminar: Productively Correct

• Supervision of Thesis Projects