News (2018)

The lecture will consider how far Pyrrhonism might be a viable outlook today. The answer depends in part on what range of issues suspension of...

Finissage and Panel Discussion: November 19, 2018, 18:00

“Does a sovereign democracy need to symbolically break with its difficult past, or can and...

“Jewish Averroism” is a concept that usually refers to Jewish philosophers from the thirteenth century onwards who philosophised within the context of...

Spinoza famously opposes political rebellion, or what we would call “revolution,” on the grounds that it reproduces, and may even worsen, just the...

The present study addresses epistemological problems dealing with the question of how to define Jewish philosophy. It explores the relationship...

Against the background of a “pluralistic” approach to a radical suspension of judgement about everything (ἐποχή περὶ πάντων), Sextus Empiricus...

The rise of scepticism in the early modern period led to new and innovative theories on both the sceptical and the anti-sceptical sides of the debate...

The general theme of the lecture series in 2018 will be “Reason and Revelation in Jewish Tradition.” The lectures will introduce Jewish thought to the...

Touch can serve as a “reality check“ that awakens an individual from her slumber. We pinch ourselves to confirm we are not dreaming. We slap a comrade...

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The conference focuses on the different trends and sceptical attitudes Maimonideanism took in the thirteenth and...

The Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures will organise an exhibition and international conference on the topic "Sefardic Manusripts from...

Sceptical Strategies, Methods, and Approaches in the Middle Ages: Christian, Islamic, and Jewish Traditions
July 29–August 3, 2018

15 Fellowships...

Did the Hassidic movement’s revolution of the Jewish world include women? We will examine the case of Temer’l Sonenberg-Bergson, a patron of Polish...