Current News (2016)29 November 2016|TeachingLecture Series: Scepticism and Anti-Scepticism in Medieval Jewish Philosophy and ThoughtDuring Winter Term 2016/17, the Maimonides Centre of Advanced Studies is Hosting a Lecture Series on Scepticism and Anti-Scepticism in Medieval Jewish...8 November 2016|EventThe Limits of Scepticism and ToleranceA Lecture with Giuseppe Veltri.31 July 2016|Academic AffairsSummer School on Sceptical Thought in Antiquity. The Greek, Hebrew and Latin Traditions.The call for Application as PDF for distribution? Please click here. Topic and Purpose The Summer School will address major concepts, strategies and...25 June 2016|EventFirst Gender LectureA Lecture On Yalta and Scepticism by Dr. Channa Pinchasi.15 June 2016|WorkshopJewish-Christian Workshop: Polemics in the Middle Ages and in the Early Modern PeriodThree different points of view will be presented: philosophical controversies found in Halevi’s Kuzari, conversion as it appears in Abner of Burgos’...18 April 2016|WorkshopWorkshop: Expressions of Sceptical Topoi in (Late) Ancient JudaismThe aim of this workshop is to discuss elements of sceptical thought in Ancient and Late Ancient Judaism through a new analysis of relevant texts.4 April 2016|EventFirst Conference of the Officina Philosophica HebraicaThe PESHAT-project is holding: the first Conference of the Officina Philosophica Hebraica “Themes, Terminology, and Translation procedure in 12th...29 March 2016|WorkshopWORKSHOP: CONVERTS OF CONVICTIONFAITH AND SKEPTICISM IN NINETEENTH CENTURY EUROPEAN JEWISH SOCIETY (Convenor: Prof. Dr. David Ruderman, University of Pennsylvania/USA)9 March 2016|EventSecond Maimonides Lecture on ScepticismProf. Dr. Dirk Westerkamp: Salomon Maimon’s Alethic Scepticism in Context 25 February 2016|WorkshopWorkshop Isaac OrobioWorkshop “Isaac Orobio: The Jewish Argument with Dogma and Doubt” (Convenor: Prof. Dr. Carsten Wilke, Central European University Budapest)23 February 2016|EventFirst Maimonides Lecture on ScepticismProf. em. Dr. Harold Tarrant (University of Newcastle/Australia): Where Platonism and Scepticism could find common ground – The use and abuse of...