Curriculum Vitae
Place and date of birth: Israel, 3.9.1947
Marital Status: Married, 2 children.
1970: B.
A. in History and English language and literature, Haifa University, Haifa
1972: Teaching Certificate (English), Haifa University,
Haifa
1980: M. A. in History of Science (summa cum laude),
Hebrew University, Jerusalem
1986: Ph. D. in History of Science (summa cum
laude), Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Subject of M.A Thesis:
Science and Religion in the Life and Work of Robert Boyle Supervisor:
Prof.Yehuda Elkana and Dr.Michael Heyd, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Subject of doctoral dissertation: The
Intellectual and Institutional Origins of the Dialogue between Galileanism and
Anti-Galileanism: 1540-1616
Supervisor: Prof. Yehuda Elkana, The Hebrew University,
Jerusalem
Further
Studies
1975-1978: Social Anthropology with Professor Robin Horton, University of Ife, Nigeria
Academic Appointments
1973-1974: TA and Research Assistant to Prof. J.Talmon,
Hebrew University, Jerusalem
1974-1975: TA and Research Assistant to Prof. E. Sivan,
Hebrew University, Jerusalem
1981-1982: Instructor, History Department, Hebrew
University, Jerusalem
1984-1987: Instructor, Cohn Institute for the History and
Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Tel Aviv University
1989-1990: Lecturer, Cohn Institute for the History and
Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Tel Aviv University
1990- 1997: Senior Lecturer, Cohn Institute for the History
and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Tel Aviv University,
1997 - : Associate Professor, Cohn Institute for
the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Tel Aviv University,
1987-1988: Fellow at Stanford Humanities Center, Stanford
University
Visiting
Lecturer at History of Science Program, Stanford University
1988-1989: Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin
(Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin)
1993-1997: Member of the Editorial Board of Zmanim (A Historical Quarterly of Tel Aviv
University)
1994-1995: Fellow at the Internazionales
Forschungszentrum
Kulturwissenschaften, Wien (International Research Center for Cultural
Studies, Vienna)
1995-: Fellow at the Dibner Institute, MIT,
Cambridge, Mass.
1995-1996: Member of the Council of the Historical Society
of Israel
1995-1998: Director of research project: “Europe in the
Middle East. Political Key Concepts in the
Dialogue of Cultures”, Van Leer Jerusalem Institute in cooperation with the
Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin)
1997 -: Fellow at the Max Planck Institut fuer
Wissenschaftsgeschichte (Max Planck Institute for History of Science),
Berlin
1997-2003: Director of the Cohn Institute for History and
Philosophy of science and Ideas, Tel Aviv University
1997-: Member of Committee of Doctoral Students, School of
History, Tel Aviv University
1998-: Member of the Editorial Board of Science in Context (Cambridge University Press)
1998-2003: Member of Advisers to The Oxford Companion to The
History of Modern Science (Oxford University Press)
1998-1999: Director of the Van Leer Seminar, VLJI
1999-2003: Member of the Board of Directors of the Israeli
Society for the History and Philosophy of Science
1999-: Member of the Advisory Board of Max Planck Institut
fuer Wissenschaftsgeschichte (Max Planck Institute for History of Science),
Berlin
1999-: Member of the Academic Committee of the Open
University, Israel
1999-2000: Member of the Advisory Committee of Mediterranean
Cultures Project, VLJI
2000-: Member of the Editorial Board of Theory and Criticism (A Journal for Critical Thought in
Hebrew)
2000-: Academic Director of the Bar-Hillel Colloquium for
the History, Philosophy and Socoiology of Science
2001-: Fellow at Collegium Helveticum der ETH (Swiss Federal
Institute of Technology), Zurich
2001-: Member of Advisory Board of Humanities Center,
Central European University, Budapest
2002-: Senior Fellow at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute,
Jerusalem
Director of Research Project: “Russians in Israel”
2003-2005: Member of research group: “Knowledge and Belief”
at the Max Planck Institut fuer Wissenschaftsgeschichte (Max Planck Institute
for History of Science, Berlin)
2003-: Member of research group: “History of Mechanics’ at
Max Planck Institut fuer Wissenschaftsgeschichte (Max Planck Institute for
History of Science, Berlin)
2003-: Member of Committee of Higher Appointments, Open
University
and
refereed Publications
1998: Evaluation of candidate for position in Bar Ilan
University
1999: Evaluation of candidate for position in the
Technion
1999: Evaluation of research proposal for Israeli Science
Foundation
1999: Evaluation of M.A. university program for Council of
Higher Education
1999: Evaluation of M.A & Ph.D university program for
Council of Higher Education
2000: Evaluation of doctoral thesis for Hebrew
University
2000: Evaluation of research proposal for Israeli Science
Foundation
2002: Evaluation of candidate for professorship at Open
University
2002: Evaluation of proposal for Israeli Science
Foundation
2003: Evaluation of M.A. and Ph.D university program for
Council of Higher Education
2003: Evaluation of candidate for professorship at ETH,
Zurich
1995- Evaluation of manuscripts for Zmanim, Science in Context, Theory and Criticism, Shazar
Center, Magnes Press, Isis, Harvard University Press
R. Feldhay, “University and Extra-University Culture in
Counter-Reformation Italy” (a paper delivered at the symposium on the History of
Universities, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, June 1984)
R. Feldhay, “Galileo and the Church” (a paper delivered at a
conference on Science and Religion in the Seventeenth Century, Johns Hopkins
University, April 1985)
R. Feldhay, “The Jesuits’ Educational Ideology: From
‘officium docendi’ to ‘ministerium’” (a paper delivered at the annual meeting of
the History of Science Society, Bloomington, Indiana, October 1985)
R. Feldhay, “On Stretching the Permissible: The Place of
Magic in Judaism according to a Sixteenth-Century Jewish Physician. A Comment on
D. Ruderman’s Paper” (a commentary on a paper delivered at the international
symposium organized by S.N. Eisenstadt and M. Silver, Jerusalem, February
1986)
R. Feldhay and A. Ophir, “Hierarchy and Heresy” (a paper
delivered at the Boston Colloquium, Boston University, September 1987)
R. Feldhay, “Authority and Authorship in La Cena delle Ceneri” (a
paper delivered at
Johns Hopkins Colloquium, September 1987)
R. Feldhay, “Galileo and the Church: A Conflict of Science
and Religion?” ( a paper delivered at Stanford Colloquium, January 1988)
R. Feldhay and M. Heyd, “The Discourse of Pious Science,” (a
paper delivered at the International Workshop: Fifty Years to the Merton Thesis,
Tel Aviv/Jerusalem, May 1988)
R. Feldhay, “From Bruno to Galileo,” (a paper delivered at
Stanford Humanities Center, June 1988)
R. Feldhay and A. Ophir, “The Scientific Revolution: A Story
of Survival in Culture,” (a paper delivered at a workshop in Royaumont, December
1988)
R. Feldhay, “Galileo and the Church,” (a paper delivered at
the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin Colloquium, January 1989)
R. Feldhay, “Jesuit Theatre and Jesuit Science” (a paper
delivered at Stanford University, October 1990)
R. Feldhay, “Jesuit Theatre as a Place of Knowledge” (a
paper delivered at the annual meeting of the History of Science Society,
Seattle, Washington, October 1990)
R. Feldhay, “Jesuit Ballet as a Model of Representation” (a
paper delivered at the W.A. Clark Library, UCLA, October 1991)
R. Feldhay, “The Narrative Constraints on Historical
Writing: The Case of the Scientific Revolution” (a paper given at the Summer
Academy in Berlin, July 1992)
R. Feldhay, “Producing Sunspots on an Iron Pan -- Galileo’s
Rhetoric” (a paper delivered at a conference on Science and Rhetoric at the
University of Pittsburgh, November 1992)
R. Feldhay, “The Hermeneutic of Heaven: Christopher
Scheiner’s Letters on Sunspots” (a paper delivered at the International Congress
of the History of Science, Zaragoza, August 1993)
R. Feldhay, “The Paradox of Self Assertion at the Dawn of
Modern Science” (a paper delivered at the annual meeting of the History of
Science Society, Santa Fe, New Mexico, November 1993)
R. Feldhay, “Israeliness and Womanhood” (Hebrew, a paper
delivered at a conference on Womanhood and National Discourse, sponsored by the
Adenauer Foundation and organized in cooperation with Dr. Orli Lubin, Jerusalem,
Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, December 1993)
R. Feldhay, “Jesuit Education at the Dawn of Modernity”
(Hebrew, a paper delivered at the Annual meeting of the Israeli Historical
Society, Jerusalem, July 1994)
R. Feldhay, “The Cultural Field of Jesuit Science” (a paper
delivered at the Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften, Wien -
International Research Center for Cultural Studies, Vienna, November 1994)
R. Feldhay, “Paulus Guldin and his Dissertation on the
Motion of the Earth 1635” (a paper delivered at the Dibner Institute, MIT, March
1995)
R. Feldhay, “Mathematical Entities in Scientific Discourse”
(a paper delivered at a conference on the Coming to Be and Going Away of
Scientific Objects, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin,
September 1995)
R. Feldhay, “Future Contingents and Mathematical Entities --
Jesuit Theology and the Meaning of scientia media” (a paper delivered at a conference
on Scienza e Sacra
Scrittura, Udine, October 1995)
R. Feldhay, “The Praxis of Rethinking the Enlightenment in
the Middle Eastern Context” (a paper delivered at a conference on Rethinking --
Not Unthinking -- The Enlightenment, Max Planck Institute for the History of
Science, Berlin, November 1995)
R. Feldhay, “The Narrative of Galileo and the Church” (a
paper delivered at a conference on Recent Galileo Scholarship at the Collegium
Helveticum, ETH, Zurich, January 1996)
R. Feldhay, “Autobiographical Textures: Israeli Womanhood in
Zionist Discourse” (a paper delivered at a conference on Intellectual History
and Intellectual Biography, in Internationales Forschungszentrum
Kulturwissenschaften, Wien - International Research Center for Cultural Studies,
Vienna, March 1996)
R. Feldhay, “Can the Earth be Moved by a Flea’s Leap”? (a
paper delivered at the International Workshop in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem on
Models of Critique, May 1996)
R. Feldhay and Sabetai Unguru, “Greek Mathematical
Discourse: Some Examples of Tensions and Gaps” (a paper delivered at the
International Conference on Ancient Mathematics in Delphi, August 1996)
R. Feldhay and P. Burgard, Baroque ReVisions, a conference organized
Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften, Wien - International
Research Center for Cultural Studies, Vienna and Melk, 16-20 October 1996
R. Feldhay, “The Cultural Field of Jesuit Science” (a paper
delivered at an international conference in Boston College on The Jesuits:
Culture, Learning and the Arts, 27 May-1 June 1997)
R. Feldhay, “On The Agony of Knowledge” (a paper delivered
at an international workshop in Potsdam, June 1997)
R. Feldhay, “Commentary on Shaman Experience and Explorers’
Experience” (delivered at an international conference on The Varieties of
Scientific Experience, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin,
June 1997)
R. Feldhay, “Knowledge, Politics and Religion in Israel” (a
paper delivered in Tokyo, September 1997)
R. Feldhay, “Israeli Youngsters’ Society in an age of
Globalization” (a paper delivered at the VLJI in an evening on Gadi Taub’s book,
November 1997)
R. Feldhay, “Commentary on Judicial Proof and Authority
Arguments” (a paper delivered at an international conference on Demonstration,
Test, Proof, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, June
1998)
R. Feldhay, “Be Sober and Reasonable” (a paper delivered at
the VLJI in an evening on Michael Heyd’s book, January 1998)
R. Feldhay, “Makom, Avoda” [Place, Work]: Israelis, Palestinians
and Foreign Workers” (a paper delivered at an international conference on The
Conflictual Construction of Identities in the Middle East, VLJI, Jerusalem,
December 1998)
R. Feldhay, “La construction conflictuelles des identitie’s”
(a paper delivered at an international conference on L’Etat d’Israel et les
Appartenances, Villa Gillet, Lyon, December 1998)
R. Feldhay, “Recent Narratives on Galileo and the Church:
The Three Dogmas of the Counter-Reformation” (Hebrew, paper delivered at The Bar
Hillel Colloquium for the History, Philosophy and Sociology of Science, VLJI,
November 1999)
R. Feldhay, “Alternative Modernities – The Middle Eastern
Perspective” (a paper delivered at an international workshop on Culture and
History in a Post-Colonial Age, Internationales Forschungszentrum
Kulturwissenschaften, Wien – International Research Center for Cultural Studies,
Vienna, April 2000
R. Feldhay, “In search of lost origins: The Galileo affair
as a Whig identity narrative”(Hebrew, a paper delivered on Independence Day:
Rector’s Lectures, Tel Aviv University, May 2000)
R. Feldhay, “On Ideas and their Social Context” (Hebrew, a
paper delivered at the School of History, Tel Aviv University, January 2001)
R. Feldhay, “Is Science a Discourse?” (Hebrew, a paper
delivered at a meeting on Psychoanalysis, Science and Ideology, VLJI, March
2001)
R. Feldhay, Women in Law (an international workshop organized at
the VLJI, March 2001)
R. Feldhay, “In Search of the Lost Origins: Science,
Religion and Politics in Early Modernity” (a paper delivered at the Collegium
Helveticum, ETH, Zurich, April 2001)
R. Feldhay and Daniel Kauz, “Knowledge, Religion and State:
Authorities, Heresies and Hierarchies in Modernity” (opening address to
conference organized at the Collegium Helveticum, ETH, Zurich, June 2001)
R. Feldhay, “Providence and Free Will: The Cultural
Construction of Knowledge and Belief in Western Christendom” (a paper delivered
at a workshop on Knowledge and Belief, Max Planck Institute for History of
Science, Berlin, June 2001)
R. Feldhay, Scientist, Heretic, Courtier: The Case of Galileo
Galilei (Hebrew, a series of lectures delivered at the Israeli Academy
of Sciences, Jerusalem, February 2002)
One.
In
search of lost origins
Two.
Through
the mirror of baroque and enlightenment
Three.
The
plural faces of modernity
R. Feldhay, “The Betrayal of the Intellectuals” (Hebrew, a
paper delivered at the VLJI, Jerusalem, April 2002)
R. Feldhay, “Knowledge, Religion and State in Modernity”
(Hebrew, a paper delivered at the Van Leer Seminar, June 2002)
R. Feldhay, “Galileo: A Cultural Hero” (Hebrew, a paper
delivered at the Institute of Biology, New Ziona, July 2002)
R. Feldhay, “Galileo: Scientist or Heretic?” (Hebrew, a
paper delivered at the Astronomical Society, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, July
2002)
R. Feldhay, “Strangers to Ourselves: Identity Construction
and Historical Research”, (Key-note lecture delivered at an international
conference in the Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies, Jerusalem, December
2002)
R. Feldhay, “The Pleasure and Agony of Biographical
Research: The Case of Galileo” (Hebrew, a lecture delivered at the School of
History, Tel Aviv University, April 2003)
R. Feldhay, “Scientific Discourse and the Discourse on
Science” (a paper delivered at the Department of Behavioral Sciences, Ben Gurion
University of the Negev, May 2003)
R. Feldhay, “On the Transmission of Mechanical Knowledge by Jesuits” (a paper delivered in a conference on Science Teaching in Early Modernity, Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza, Firenze, June 2003)
R. Feldhay, “Yeshayahu Lebovitz and his Separation of Science and Religion: A Position in the Cultural Field” (Hebrew, a paper delivered at a conference on Leibovitz: Conservatism and Radicalism, for the 100th birthday of Leibovitz, VLJI, June 2003)
R. Feldhay, “Orthodoxy and Subversion in Jesuit Mechanical Texts” (a paper delivered at a workshop on Knowledge and Belief, Max Planck Institute for History of Science, Berlin, September 2003)
1974: Hebrew University Scholarship
1979: Edelstein Center Scholarship
1987: Kennedy Lee Award, Hebrew University
1988: Ethel Wattis Kimball Award, Stanford University
1989: Rector’s Research Fellowship, Tel Aviv University
1989-1992: Allon Fellowship, Tel Aviv University
1991: Basic Research Fund, Tel Aviv University
1990-1993: Research Fund, The Israeli Academy of Sciences
and Humanities
1995-1998: Research Fund, Volkswagen Foundation (receiver:
VLJI)
2002: Research Fund from the European Union for a series on
Science in Literature
Israeli Historical Society, Israel.
History of Science Society, USA.
Renaissance Society of America
Chanan Yoran, Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Tel Aviv University. (together with Prof. Miri Eliav-Feldon). Ph.D. thesis: “Erasmus and Thomas More: Between the Republic of Letters and the World of Politics” (graduated in 1997)
Raz Chen, Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of
Science and Ideas, Tel Aviv University (together with Prof. Sabetai Unguru).
Ph.D. thesis: “The Renaissance Discourse of Vision and Kepler’s New Science”
(graduated in 2001)
Doli Ben Habib, Cohn Institute for the History and
Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Tel Aviv University (together with Prof. Sasson
Somech). Ph. D. thesis: “The Formation of Eastern Jews’ Subjectivity - the case
of Sami Michael” (graduated in 2003)
Amos Edelheit, Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy
of Science and Ideas, Tel Aviv University. (together with Sr. Jill Kray from the
Warburg Institute in London) Ph.D. thesis: “On De Christiana Religione of Marsilio Ficino and The Apology of Pico della
Mirandola: Humanistic Theology in Crisis” (Research proposal approved)
Amos Granit, Program for Security Studies, Tel Aviv
University. Ph.D. thesis: “Martial Epistemologies” (Research proposal
approved)
Arie Kremf, Cohn Institute for History and Philosophy of
Science and Ideas, Tel Aviv University, Ph.D thesis, “The Central Bank of
Israel: Sociological, Political and Historical Contexts,1954-2001” (Research
proposal approved)
Roni Mirkin, Faculty of Arts, Tel Aviv University (together
with Linda Ben Zvi), Ph. D. thesis: “‘Be and Seem’: Theatricality and Ambiguity
in English Renaissance Portraiture and Costume” (Research proposal approved)
Itzhak Benyamini, Cohn Institute for History and Philosophy
of Science and Ideasm Tel Aviv University (together with Michael Mach), Ph.D.
thesis, “The Theological Infrastructure of Lacan’s Psychoanalytical Theory”
(Research proposal approved)
Moshe Arkin, Cohn Institute for History and Philosophy of
Science and Ideas, Tel Aviv University, Ph. D. thesis, “Michaelangelo’s
Discourse of Love” (Stage A)
Michael Elazar, Cohn Institute for History and Philosophy of
Science and Ideas, Tel Aviv University, Ph. D. thesis, History of Mechanics
(Stage A)
Ofer Gal, Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of
Science and Ideas, Tel Aviv University. M.A. thesis: “Tropes and Topics in
Scientific Discourse -- Galileo’s On Motion” (graduated in 1992)
Roni Mirkin, Faculty of Arts, Tel Aviv University (together
with Dr. Ahuva Belkin). M.A. thesis: “The Construction of an ‘Inner Self’ -- A
New Reading of Elizabethan Cloths and Portraits” (graduated in 1992)
Offra Regev, Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy
of Science and Ideas, Tel Aviv University. M.A. thesis: “Art as Criticism and
the Desire of Philosophy: Nicholas of Cusa and Leonardo da Vinci” (graduated in
July 1995)
Achva Karel, Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy
of Science and Ideas, Tel Aviv University. M.A. thesis: “The Concept of Death in
Freud, Heidegger and Irigaray”, (graduated in 1997)
.
Amos Edelheit, Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy
of Science and Ideas, Tel Aviv University, M.A.thesis: “The Discorse on Love in
the Renaissance” (graduated in 1998)
Tamar Mishmar, Cohn Institute for History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Tel Aviv University, M.A. thesis (together with Hanan Hever), “Critical Practices in the Constitution of Subjectivity: Rachel Eitan and Netiva Ben Yehuda” (graduated in 2000)
Michael Elazar, Cohn Institute for History and Philosophy of
Science and Ideas, Tel Aviv University, M. A. thesis (together with Shabetai
Unguru), “The Theory of Configuaration of Nicholas Oresme” (graduated in
2000)
Itay Sapir, Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Tel Aviv University. M.A. thesis: “Darkness in the Kingdom of Minerva: Adam Elsheimer, Tenebrism in Baroque Painting and its Epistemological Origins” (graduated in 2001)
Zvi Ben Saadon, Cohn Institute for History and Philosophy of
Science and Ideas, Tel Aviv University, M. A. thesis, “The Network and the
Kingdom – on Metaphor and Analogy in Galileo’s Scientific Discourse” (graduated
in 2002)
Irena Tachtarova, Cohn Institute for the History and
Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Tel Aviv University (together with Dr.Igal
Halfin). Ph. D. thesis: “”Before and After the Gates of Zion: The Russian
Immigration of the 1990’s and Israeli Society” (at work)
R. Feldhay, Galileo and the Church: Political Inquisition or Critical
Dialogue? Cambridge University Press 1995 (303 pp.) [reprint 1999]
R. Feldhay, The Cultural Field of Jesuit Science 1630-1690,
Stanford University Press (forthcoming) (about 300 pp.)
R. Feldhay, Scientist, Heretic, Courtier: The Case of Galileo Galilei
(Hebrew, Van Leer,/Hakibbutz Hameuhad (about 200 pp. forthcoming)
R. Feldhay and Y. Elkana (eds., with introduction), Around Merton: Catholic and
Protestant Science in the 17th Century, in the series Science in Context, Cambridge
University Press, 302 pp.
E. Etkes & R. Feldhay (eds.), (Hebrew) Education and History: Political and
Cultural Contexts, (Hebrew), Jerusalem 1998
Refereed Journals
R. Feldhay, “Celestial Novelties and Crises of Knowledge”,
(Hebrew), Zmanim, 1984
R. Feldhay, “Knowledge and Salvation in Jesuit Culture”, Science in Context, 1:2
(1987) pp. 195-213
R. Feldhay and A. Ophir, “Heresy and Hierarchy: The
Authorization of Giordano Bruno”, Stanford Humanities Review (1989), 1:1, pp.
118-138
R. Feldhay and M. Heyd, “The Discourse of Pious Science”, Science in Context (1989), 3:1, pp.
109-142
R. Feldhay, “A Feminine Midrash”
(Hebrew), Theory and
Criticism (1992), 2, pp. 69-88
R. Feldhay, “The Narrative Constraints on Scientific
Writing: The Case of the Scientific Revolution”, Science in Context (1994), 7:1, pp. 7-24
R. Feldhay, “The Passage to Modernity in the Catholic
Church: The Case of Jesuit Science” (Hebrew), Zmanim (1994), 49, pp. 25-34
R. Feldhay, “Why do we need Deconstruction to read a book of
Geometry?”, (Hebrew) Zmanim
(1996), 55, pp. 54-62
R. Feldhay, “Nicolas Copernic: Positions de Jesuites”, Les Cahiers de Science &
Vie,
(1997), 39, pp. 60-70
R. Feldhay, “Mathematical Texts in their Cultural Contexts:
Jesuit Science in Early Modernity” (Hebrew), Zmanim (1999), 66, pp. 64-76
R. Feldhay, “Recent Narratives of Galileo and the Church or:
The Three Dogmas of the Counter-Reformation”, Science in Context (2000), 13: 4, pp. 489-509 (repr.
J. Renn (ed.), Galileo in
Context, Cambridge University Press 2001, pp. 219-239)
R. Feldhay, “Copernicus, Galileo and the Inquisition”, Essay
Review on Pierre-Noel Mayaud, S.J., La Condamnations des
Livres Coperniciens: A la lumie`re de documents ine’dits des Congregation de
l’Index et de l’Inquisition, in Journal for the History of Astronomy (2002), XXXIII,
pp. 280-284
R. Feldhay, “On the
Transmission of Mechanical Knowledge by Jesuits”, Journal of Science and Education (forthcoming, about
30 pp.)
Refereed Books
R. Feldhay, “Catholicism and the Emergence of Galilean
Science: A Conflict between Science and Religion”?, in S. N. Eisenstadt and I.
Silver (eds.), Cultural Traditions
and Worlds of Knowledge, Explorations in the Sociology of Knowledge, pp.
139-163, JAI Press 1988
R. Feldhay, “Critical Reactions to the Occult: A Comment” in
E. Ullmann-Margalit (ed.), The
Scientific Enterprise, Kluwer Academic Publishers 1992, pp. 93-101
R. Feldhay, “Producing Sunspots on an Iron Pan - Galileo’s
Rhetoric”, in H. Krips, H. E. McGuire, T. Melia (eds.), Science, Reason, and
Rhetoric, pp. 119-152, University of Pittsburgh/Universitatsverlag
Konstanz 1995
R. Feldhay, “The use and abuse of mathematical entities:
Galileo and the Jesuits revisited”, in P. Machamer (ed.), A Companion to Galileo,
Cambridge University Press 1998, pp. 80-146
R. Feldhay, “The Cultural Field of Jesuit Science”, in J.
O’Malley, S. J. et al. (eds.), The
Jesuits: Cultures, Sciences, and the Arts 1540-1773, University of
Toronto Press 1999, pp. 107-131
R. Feldhay, “Mathematical Entities in Scientific Discourse:
Paulus Guldin and his Dissertatio
de motu terrae”, in L. Daston (ed.), Biographies of Scientific Objects, University of Chicago Press
2000, pp. 42-67
R. Feldhay, “Science and Religion in Early Modernity”, in L.
Daston and K. Park (eds.), Cultural Meanings of Early Modern Science, Cambridge History
of Science Part IV, Cambridge University Press (forthcoming, about 90
pp.)
R. Feldhay, “In Search of the Lost Origins: Science,
Religion and Politics in Early Modernity”, in Helga Novotni et al. (eds.), Jahrbuch 2001 des Collegium
Helveticum der ETH Zurich, pp. 293-315
R. Feldhay, “Strangers to Ourselves: Identity Construction and
Historical Research”, in M. Zuckermann (ed.), Psychoanalyse und Geschichte in Tel Aviver Jahrbuch fuer deutsche
Geschichte, (Guettingen 2004, forthcoming)
R. Feldhay, “Yeshaiahu Leibovitz and his Separation of
Science and Religion”, in A. Ravitzky (ed.), Yehaiahu Leibovitz: Conservatism and Radicalism
(forthcoming)
R. Feldhay and S. Unguru, “Greek Mathematical Discourse:
Some Examples of Tensions and Gaps”, Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Ancient
Mathematics in Delphi, 1997
R. Feldhay, “La construction conflictuelle des identite’s,
L’Etat d’Israel et Les
Appartenances, Villa Gillet 1999, pp.21-35
R. Feldhay, The Galileo Affair: A
Meeting of Faith and Science, edited by C. V. Coyne, S. J. M. Heller, J.
Zycinski in Archives
Internationales d’Histoire des Sciences (1987) 37:118, pp. 177-180
R. Feldhay, The Shapes of Knowledge
from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment, edited by R. Kelley and R. H.
Popkin in Isis (1993)
84:4, pp. 793-795
R. Feldhay, Copernico, Galilei e la
Chiesa: Fine della Controversia (1820): Gli Atti del Santo’Uffizio, A cura di W.
Brandmuller e E. J. Greipl, in Isis (1996), 87:3, pp. 556-7
R. Feldhay, Jesuit Science and the
Republic of Letters,
edited by M. Feingold, in Renaissance Quarterly (forthcoming)
R. Feldhay, La Contre-Reforme
Mathematique, by A. Romano, in Early Science and Medicine (forthcoming)
R. Feldhay, Jewish Thought and
Scientific Discovery in Early Modern Europe by D. Ruderman, in Zion, (in Hebrew,
forthcoming)
Other
publications:
R. Feldhay, “Memoirs in Black and White”, Jerusalem Quarterly, 14, 1980
R. Feldhay, “Throughout the dark glass of language”,
(Hebrew) Politica,
November 1992
R. Feldhay and Azmi Bishara, “Postmodernism is Modern”,
(Hebrew), Davar, January
1993
R. Feldhay and Azmi Bishara, ”The Passage to a New
Enlightenment”, (Hebrew) Davar, June 1993
R. Feldhay, “Women’s Literature’, (Hebrew) Theory and Criticism (1994)
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R. Feldhay, “Wer nicht mehr spricht, stirbt” (interview), Die Zeit, April 2002
R. Feldhay, “In Search of the Lost Origins: The Galileo
Affair through the Mirror of Identity”, (Hebrew) Bashaar (2002), pp. 26-31
R. Feldhay, “Is Science a Discourse? On Science and
Objectivity” (Hebrew), Galileo, 57, (2003), pp. 26-38.