THE BAR-HILLEL COLLOQUIUM

FOR THE HISTORY, PHILOSOPHY AND SOCIOLOGY

OF SCIENCE

24th ANNUAL SERIES 2004-2005

The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute

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

1. Wednesday, December 1, 2004, 8.00 pm

Oren Harman, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Bar-Ilan University

Nature, Nurture, and Culture (in Hebrew)

The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute

2. Wednesday, December 15, 2004, 8.00 pm

W. J. T. Mitchell

Secular Divination: Edward Said’s Humanism

The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute

3. Monday, January 10, 2005, 6.00 pm

Ulrike Felt, University of Vienna

Fraud@science.org:

Science, Fraud and Contemporary Boundary Conditions of Knowledge Production

Commentator:

Tel Aviv University

4. Wednesday, February 23, 2005, 8.00 pm

Yossef Schwartz, Tel Aviv University

Philosophy, Science and Magic in the Late Middle Ages

Commentator:

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

5. Wednesday, March 9, 2005, 8.00 pm

Michael Segre, University G. D’Annunzio

Galileo and the Medici: Post-Renaissance Patronage or

Post-Modern Historiography?

Commentator: Raz Chen-Morris, Bar-Ilan University

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

6. Monday, April 11, 2005, 6.00 pm

Arnold Davidson, University of Chicago and University of Paris VII

Michel Foucault and the Epistemological Use of History

Commentator: Yemima Ben Menahem, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Tel Aviv University

7. Monday, May 16, 2005, 6.00 pm

Michael Roubach, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Mathematics and the Limits of Phenomenology:

Cavaillès and the Origin of Derrida's Thought

Commentator: Hagi Kenaan, Tel Aviv University

Tel Aviv University

8. Mon.-Thurs., May 30-June 2, 2005

Leibniz: What Kind of Rationalist?

The Twentieth Annual International Workshop

Details will be announced separately.

Tel Aviv University and the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute

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The lectures will take place at:

The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute: 43 Jabotinsky Street, Jerusalem

Tel Aviv University: Gilman Building, Hall 496

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

Rivka Feldhay, Academic Director

Shulamit Laron, Director of Public Events, The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute

For more information: The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, P.O.Box 4070, Jerusalem 91040 Tel: 972-2-5605222, Fax: 972-2-5619293, www.vanleer.org.il

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

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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