News (2017)

The Yearbook mirrors the annual activities of staff and visiting fellows of the Maimonides Centre and reports on symposia, workshops, and lectures...

Bilder als Erkenntnismedien spielen heute eine größere Rolle denn je. Die Bilderflut, unter anderem in den Neuen Medien, lässt sie allerdings auch...

This lecture begins with a discussion of a brief passage within a passage in bGittin 57a that demonstrates how rabbinic knowledge of a forensic...

From their earliest stages, Buddhist traditions have displayed a sceptical attitude towards various types of accepted knowledge. Buddhist thinkers...

Pyrrhonian scepticism has roots in metaphysical discussions relevant to relativism. This lecture reconstructs these discussions in Plato's Theaetetus...

In David Hume’s Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, Cleanthes challenges Demea: “Or how do you mystics, who maintain the absolute...

August 6-10, 2017

Do you have questions about our research, fellowships, or publications? Meet us in Jerusalem during the World Congress of Jewish...

Pending approval of external funding Universität Hamburg invites applications for a Research Associate for the project “Maimonides Centre for Advanced...

The lecture will first deal with an early passage by Maimonides, found in his commentary on the Mishnah, Sanhedrin, dealing with the post-mortem union...

The lecture "The Passion for Metaphysics in Maimonides' Thought: A Study of the Guide of the Perplexed 1:31-35" by Dov Schwartz on Tuesday, 31 January...

Dr. Patrick Benjamin Koch of the Institute for Jewish Philosophy and Religion has been accepted to the Emmy Noether Programme of the German Research...