Current News (2018)7 December 2018|MCAS - ResearchSecond Funding Period of MCASPhoto: UHH/MCASWe 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. ...22 November 2018|MCAS - EventsLecture: Can we be Ancient Sceptics?Photo: UHH/SUB HHThe lecture will consider how far Pyrrhonism might be a viable outlook today. The answer depends in part on what range of issues suspension of...19 November 2018|EventExhibition "Visual Scepticism in Public Spaces—Dealing with “Loaded” Memorials"Photo: creativecommons/UHHFinissage and Panel Discussion: November 19, 2018, 18:00 “Does a sovereign democracy need to symbolically break with its difficult past, or can and...12 November 2018|MCAS - EventsInternational ConferencePhoto: see poster“Jewish Averroism” is a concept that usually refers to Jewish philosophers from the thirteenth century onwards who philosophised within the context of...30 October 2018|MCAS - EventsAnnual Lecture 2018Photo: UHH/SUB HHSpinoza famously opposes political rebellion, or what we would call “revolution,” on the grounds that it reproduces, and may even worsen, just the...10 September 2018|PublicationOut in PrintPhoto: UHH/De GruyterThe present study addresses epistemological problems dealing with the question of how to define Jewish philosophy. It explores the relationship...6 September 2018|MCAS - EventsWorkshop: Pyrrhonian ModesPhoto: UHH/MCAS/Lyon Public LibraryAgainst the background of a “pluralistic” approach to a radical suspension of judgement about everything (ἐποχή περὶ πάντων), Sextus Empiricus...4 June 2018|WorkshopWorkshop: Early Modern (Anti-) ScepticismPhoto: UHH/MCASThe 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...29 May 2018|EventMaimonides Lectures on Scepticism 2018Photo: UHH/SUB HHWe would like to invite you our Maimonides Lectures on Scepticism in 2018. Our guests are Moshe Halbertal (Hebrew University of Jerusalem/Israel)...16 April 2018|EventLecture Series "Reason and Revelation in Jewish Tradition"Photo: Centro Primo Levy NYThe general theme of the lecture series in 2018 will be “Reason and Revelation in Jewish Tradition.” The lectures will introduce Jewish thought to the...27 March 2018|WorkshopWorkshop: A Touch of Doubt. On Haptic ScepticismPhoto: UHHTouch can serve as a “reality check“ that awakens an individual from her slumber. We pinch ourselves to confirm we are not dreaming. We slap a comrade...12 March 2018|EventInternational ConferencePhoto: UHH/SUB HHPlease note the programme update!The conference focuses on the different trends and sceptical attitudes Maimonideanism took in the thirteenth and...12 February 2018|EventExhibition and ConferencePhoto: UHH/SUB HHThe Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures will organise an exhibition and international conference on the topic "Sefardic Manusripts from...31 January 2018|EventSummer School 2018Photo: UHH/MCASSceptical Strategies, Methods, and Approaches in the Middle Ages: Christian, Islamic, and Jewish TraditionsJuly 29–August 3, 2018 15 Fellowships...30 January 2018|EventLecture by Tsippi KauffmanPhoto: UHH/StabiDid the Hassidic movement’s revolution of the Jewish world include women? We will examine the case of Temer’l Sonenberg-Bergson, a patron of Polish...
