The International Workshop is held every Spring Semester in cooperation with the  Edelstein Center of the Hebrew University and the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute.  International and Israeli scholars meet for four days (two in Tel Aviv and two  in Jerusalem) to deliver papers and discuss ideas related to a selected central  topic. The dynamic interaction created has become a very successful venue.  Junior scholars at the beginning of their careers are also invited to speak and  are given the opportunity to rub shoulders with some of the leading names in the  field. Students from all universities and departments are welcome guests.

  The 2006 workshop was held in December 2008 and its topic was:

 Transformations of Lamarckism - 19th –21st Centuries:

The topics to which past workshops were devoted reflects the broad spectrum of intellectual fields of interest pursued at the Institute,  as the following list illustrates. In various cases, some of the most salient talks given at the workshops were further elaborated and collected into topical issues of  Science in Context,  and this is pointed out in each case here: 

 

                                                                                                                                

2008	The Probable and the Improbable:  The Meaning and Role of Probability in Physics An International Colloquium in Honor of Itamar Pitowsky
2006	The Origins and Nature of Computation
2005	Leibniz: What Kind of Rationalist?
2004	Picture and Text. Visualization and Knowledge in the Evolution of Culture
2001	History of Mathematics in the Last 25 Years - New Departures, New Questions, New Ideas          [SiC Vol. 16 (3), 2003, Vol. 17 (1), 2004]
2000	The Conceptual Foundations of Statistical Mechanics
1999	Science and Secularization         [SiC Vol. 15 (1), 2002]
1998	Ernst Cassirer - Symbol, Science and Culture         [SiC Vol. 12 (4), 1999]
1997	Eugenic Thought and Practice - A Reappraisal Towards the 21st Century         [SiC Vol. 11 (3-4), 1998]
1996	Models of Critique in the Sciences, Society and the Arts         [SiC Vol. 10 (1), 1997]
1995	Jewish Responses to Early Modern Science         [SiC Vol. 10 (4), 1997]
1994	Images of Knowledge - Two Tier Thinking and Higher Education          [SiC Vol. 9 (2), 1996]
1993	Medicine as a Cultural System
1992	Narrative Patterns in Scientific Disciplines          [SiC Vol. 7 (1), 1994]
1991	Technological Pessimism, Modern Societies and their Environments          [SiC Vol. 8 (2), 1995]
1990	Einstein in Context          [SiC Vol. 6 (1), 1993]
1989	The Place of Knowledge - The Spatial Settings          [SiC Vol. 4 (1), 1991]
1988	Fifty Years of the Merton Thesis          [SiC Vol. 3 (1), 1989]
1988	Generative Linguistics, Philosophy, Mathematics and Psychology
1987	300 Years of the Principia - Realism Then and Now
1986	The Quantification of Scientific Concepts in its Social Context
1985	Menasseh Ben Israel and his World
1985	The Interrelations between Physics, Cosmology and Astronomy 1300-1700