founded in collaboration with Robert S. Cohen of the Boston Colloquium for the Philosophy of Science

THE BAR-HILLEL COLLOQUIUM FOR THE HISTORY, PHILOSOPHY
AND SOCIOLOGY OF SCIENCE
2000 - 2001
 

Rivka Feldhay, Academic Director
Shulamit Laron, Coordinator

 
1. Wednesday
November 8
Jerusalem
  Strangers at Home?
The Making of the Scholarly Family in Early Modern Northern Europe
  Gadi Algazi Tel Aviv University
Commentator: Raz Chen-Morris Tel Aviv University
         
2. Monday
December 18
Tel Aviv
  Rhetoric, Freedom, and the Crisis of Christian Tradition. the Pseudo-Donation of Constantine, 1440   Salvatore I. Camporeale
Valla's "Oratio" on Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies
Commentator: Hanan Yoran Tel Aviv University
 
3. Wednesday
January 10
Jerusalem
  Experiment and Its Problems, and Their Solution   Allan Franklin University of Colorado, Boulder
Commentator: Giora Hon Haifa University
         
4. Monday
March 12
Tel Aviv
  The Neo-Fregean Program in the Philosophy of Arithmetic   William Demopoulos The University of Western Ontario
Commentator: Mark Steiner The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
         
5. Wednesday
March 28
Jerusalem
  The "Fuehrer" and His Thinkers: Philosophy and Philosophers in the Third Reich   Gereon Wolters University of Konstanz
Commentator: Gabriel Motzkin
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
         
6. Mon.-Thurs.
May 14 - 17
Tel Aviv and Jerusalem
  History of Mathematics in the Last 25 Years: New Departures New Questions, New Ideas   Annual International Workshop
 
7. Monday
May 21
Tel Aviv
  Michel Foucault and the Birth of a World: From Serial Music to the History of Forms of Thought   Arnold I. Davidson
The University of Chicago
Commentator: Ruth HaCohen
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
         
8. Wednesday
June 6
Jerusalem
  Kant, Kuhn, and the Rationality of Science   Michael Friedman Indiana University Commentator: Mara Beller
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
   

 

Tel Aviv University, Gilman Building, Hall 449, 6pm.
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Givat Ram, Levy Building, Hall 201, 8pm