Ninth Academic Year: 2023-24

Senior Fellow: October 2023–February 2024

Research Project: The Art and Science of Philosophising. Jewish Modern and Pre-modern Sources of Leo Strauss’s Scepticism

Senior Fellow: April–June 2024

Research Project: First of All, Survival: Michel de Montaigne’s Existential Scepticism

Senior Fellow: July-August 2024

Research Project: Fame and Discredit. The Reception of the Zohar among Christian Readers in the Early Modern Period

Junior Fellow: October 2023–September 2024

Research Project: The Dark Ground and the Absent God: Negative Theodicy as a Skeptical Strategy in Jacob and Susan Taubes

Junior Fellow: October 2023–January 2024

Research Project: Moses Mendelssohn’s Conception of the Beautiful: Scepticism and Rationalist Aesthetics in Jewish Philosophy

Senior Fellow: May-June 2024

Research Project: Room for Doubts. Models, Practices, and People in the Ghetto system (Rome, 16th to 19th centuries)

Junior Fellow: October 2023–September 2024

Research Project: Sceptical Foundations in Walter Benjamin's Reflections on Experience, Language, and Literature

Senior Fellow: May–August 2024

Research Project: “Doubting the Classics” in the Northern Song (960-1126): Politics or Scepticism?

Senior Fellow: October 2023–February 2024  

Research Project: The Epistemic Role of Cognitive Skills in Scholastic Philosophy (1250–1650)

Senior Fellow: January–February 2024

Research Project: The Orient in the Occident: The Wissenschaft des Judentums, the Nahda, and the Critique of European Modernity

Senior Fellow: January–February 2024

Research Project: The Scepticism of the non-Sceptics

Senior Fellow: January–February 2024

Research Project: Scepticism in Halakhah: Searching for Reasons of the Mitzvoth and Halakhot

Senior Fellow: June–July 2024

Research Project: Sceptical Challenges and Strategies in the Inter-Confessional Debate on Transubstantiation, the Trinity, and the Rule of Faith in Late Seventeenth-Century England

Junior Fellow: October 2023–September 2024

Research Project: The "philosophische Täuschung": the Ground Concept of Salomon Maimon’s Critical Scepticism

Senior Fellow: August-September 2024

Research Project: Eradication of the Doubt and the Formation of the Nationalist Idiom in the Maskilic Thought

Senior Fellow: August 2024

Research Project: Doubt and Fear: The Emotional Elements in Hasidic Responses to Scepticism

Junior Fellow: October 2023–September 2024

Research Project: An Unknown Source of Scepticism? The Influence of Pierre Bayle’s Dictionnaire historique et critique (1697) on Moses Mendelssohn’s Philosophische Gespräche (1755) and its Religious Implications

Senior Fellow: June-August 2024

Research Project: Infinity in Modern Philosophy

Senior Fellow: May–July 2024

Research Project: Judicial Proceedings in the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Period: Jewish Trials and Doubt