Maimonides Lectures on ScepticismSummer Term 2017

3 May 2017

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We would like to invite you to our Maimonides Lectures on Scepticism in the summer term 2017. Our guests are Nuccio Ordine, Jonathan Garb, Jani Hakkarainen, Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann, Omri Boehm and Carlos Fraenkel.

01 March 2017 – 16:00
(Lecture will be held in Italian!)
THE SEARCH FOR TRUTH IN GIORDANO BRUNO’S WORK
Nuccio Ordine (University of Calabria/ITALY)

03 May 2017 – 18:00
DOUBT AND CERTAINTY IN EARLY MODERN KABBALAH
Jonathan Garb (Hebrew University of Jerusalem/ISRAEL)

16 May 2017 – 16:00
HUME ON POSSIBLE DURATION WITHOUT POSSIBLE TEMPORAL PARTS – A SCEPTICAL SOLUTION
Jani Hakkarainen (University of Tampere/FINLAND)

06 June 2017 – 18:00
LINGUA ADAMICA AND PHILOLOGICAL SCEPTICISM: RISE AND FALL IN KABBALISTIC KEY-CONCEPTS
Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann (Freie Universität Berlin/GERMANY)

20 June 2017 – 18:00
MAIMONIDES, SPINOZA AND KANT ON ENLIGHTENMENT AND PROPHECY
Omri Boehm (The New School New York/USA)

11 July 2017 – 18:00
METAPHYSICAL SCEPTICISM AND THE SUFI ALTERNATIVE: AL-GHAZALĪ, MAIMONIDES AND ABRAHAM BEN MAIMONIDES
Carlos Fraenkel (McGill University Montreal/CANADA)

Location:

Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies/5th Floor, Seminar Room 5060/Schlüterstraße 51/20146 Hamburg