21 July 2024

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We would like to invite you to a conference about "The Significance of Scepticism in Philosophy, Judaism, and Culture." It will take place from 21 to 24 July 2024.

Date
21–24 July 2024

Abstract

The value of scepticism in philosophy has been judged differently: while Pyrrhonist sceptics conceived of scepticism as a way to happiness, later philosophers – especially in the early modern period – conceived of it as a malady from which we cannot be cured. Yet, for all this disagreement these philosophers agreed that scepticism is deeply bound up with our human condition: our predicament of being finite and yet having to come to terms with an infinite complex world. As research at MCAS over the previous years has shown, scepticism is also relevant for other domains of human thought and practice, which are equally affected by our finite nature, which prevents us from attaining certainty.

Keynote Speaker

• Giuseppe Veltri (Universität Hamburg)

Participants

• Richard Bett (John Hopkins University)
• Daniel Boyarin (University of California, Berkeley)
• Michael Della Rocca (Yale University)
• Yehuda Halper (Bar Ilan University)
• Zev Harvey (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
• Ehud Krinis (Ben Gurion University of the Negev)
• Adi Louria Hayon (Tel Aviv University)
• Diego Lucci (American University in Bulgaria)
• Diego Machuca (CONICET, Argentina)
• Yitzhak Melamed (John Hopkins University)
• Chiara Rover (Universität Hamburg)
• Stephan Schmid (Universität Hamburg)
• Johanna Schmitt (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen)
• Andreas Speer (Universität zu Köln) 
• Josef Stern (The University of Chicago)

Poster
[Link]

Programme
[Link] Update 9 July 2024

Venue
Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies

Please contact MCAS for further information and registration: maimonides-centre"AT"uni-hamburg.de