THE BAR-HILLEL COLLOQUIUM

FOR THE HISTORY, PHILOSOPHY AND SOCIOLOGY

OF SCIENCE

22^nd ANNUAL SERIES 2002 - 2003

1. Wednesday, November 13, 2002

Jose Brunner, Tel Aviv University

Revealing the Nazi Mind: Seven Decades of Perpetrator Psychology

Commentator: Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi, University of Haifa

Jerusalem

2. Monday, 16 December, 2002

llana Löwy, CERMES (INSERM/CNRS/ EHESSS)

The Legacy of Ludwik Fleck

Commentator: Yoav Ben-Dov, Tel Aviv University

Tel Aviv

3. *Wednesday, January 15, 2003

Slavoj Zizek, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

Psychoanalysis between Judaism and Christianity

Commentator: Shuli Barzilai, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Jerusalem

4. Monday, March 10, 2003

Don Howard, University of Notre Dame, Indiana

Politics and the Philosophy of Science in the Nineteenth Century:

Suggestions for an Agenda

Commentator: Yemima Ben-Menahem, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Tel Aviv

5. Wednesday, March 26, 2003

Davis Baird, University of South Carolina

Thing Knowledge

Commentator: Giora Hon, University of Haifa

Jerusalem

6. Monday, April 7, 2003

Sachiko Kusukawa, Trinity College, Cambridge

Andreas Vesalius: on the Importance of Pictures

Commentator: Rivka Feldhay, Tel Aviv University

Tel Aviv

7. Monday, May 19, 2003

Otto Sibum, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science

Experimentalists in the Republic of Letters

Commentator: Gadi Algazi, Tel Aviv University

Tel Aviv

8. Wednesday, May 28, 2003

Michael Luchmann, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences

Information and the Evolution of Cooperation

Commentator: Eva Jablonka, Tel Aviv University

Jerusalem

9. Monday, June 2, 2003

David Ruderman, University of Pennsylvania

Thinking "Early Modern": Towards a Coherent Interpretation of

a Discrete Epoch in Jewish Cultural History

Commentator: Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Tel Aviv

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The opening lecture (in Hebrew) takes place at:

The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, 43 Jabotinsky Street, Jerusalem, 8.00pm.

The other lectures take place at:

Tel Aviv University: Gilman Building, Hall 496, 6.00pm.

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem: Givat Ram Campus, Levy Building, Hall 324, 8.00pm.

* The lecture takes place at The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, 8.00pm.

Academic Director: Rivka Feldhay

Administrative Director: Shulamit Laron

For further information: the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, P.O.Box 4070, Jerusalem 91040, Tel. 02-5605222, Fax: 02-5619293, www.vanleer.org.il

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The Colloquium acknowledges the support of the Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas (Tel Aviv University), The Edelstein Center for the History and Philosophy of Science, Technology and Medicine (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, and the Yehoshua Bar-Hillel Fund.

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