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Welcome to the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies!

The “Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies (MCAS)–Jewish Scepticism” is a DFG-Kolleg-Forschungsgruppe, directed by Prof. Dr. Giuseppe Veltri. It opened in October 2015 and it will run for eight years. The central aim of the Maimonides Centre is to explore and research scepticism in Judaism in its dual manifestation of a purely philosophical tradition and a more general expression of sceptical strategies, concepts, and attitudes in the cultural field.

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10 December 2020|Academic Affairs
Fellowships 2021–22: Call for Applications

The Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies invites researchers to apply for its junior and senior fellowship programme for the academic year 1 October 2021 to 30 September 2022.

Annual Lecture 2020
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27 October 2020|Event
Annual Lecture

We would like to invite you to MCAS's Annual Lecture on October 27, 2020, at 18:00. Gianni Paganini (Università del Piemonte Orientale) will give the lecture "Facts, Fictions, and Hypotheses: Hume’s Scepticism and Newton’s Method in the 'Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion'"

Judah Halevi’s Fideistic Scepticism in the Kuzar
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6 July 2020|Publication
Out in Print

As scepticism has rarely been studied in the context of the Arabic culture and its Judeo-Arabic sub-culture, it is small wonder that sceptical motifs of Judah Halevi’s classic theological The Kuzari received very little scholarly attention so far. Krinis's study seeks to shed light on Judah Halevi’s wrestling with the...

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Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies
Schlüterstraße 51 (5th floor)
20146 Hamburg
Tel: +49 40 42838-9767
E-Mail: maimonides-centre@uni-hamburg.de