October 27–28, 2019
There is a paradox within Philonian scholarship. On the one hand, Philo’s thought has never drawn as much scholarly attention as...
2 Doctoral Fellowships and 2 Postdoctoral Fellowships
Application Deadline: April 1, 2019
The Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies (MCAS) at...
The Yearbook mirrors the annual activities of staff and fellows of the Maimonides Centre and reports on symposia, workshops, and lectures taking place...
We are delighted to announce that the German Research Foundation has granted MCAS a second funding period. It will begin in 2019 and run until 2023.
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The lecture will consider how far Pyrrhonism might be a viable outlook today. The answer depends in part on what range of issues suspension of...
Finissage and Panel Discussion: November 19, 2018, 18:00
“Does a sovereign democracy need to symbolically break with its difficult past, or can and...
“Jewish Averroism” is a concept that usually refers to Jewish philosophers from the thirteenth century onwards who philosophised within the context of...
Spinoza famously opposes political rebellion, or what we would call “revolution,” on the grounds that it reproduces, and may even worsen, just the...
The present study addresses epistemological problems dealing with the question of how to define Jewish philosophy. It explores the relationship...
Against the background of a “pluralistic” approach to a radical suspension of judgement about everything (ἐποχή περὶ πάντων), Sextus Empiricus...
The rise of scepticism in the early modern period led to new and innovative theories on both the sceptical and the anti-sceptical sides of the debate...
