Publications of Fellows and Team

Update: October 19, 2018

Aumiller, Rachel (Research Team Member)

• Aumiller, Rachel. “Epoché as the Erotic Conversion of One into Two.” In Yearbook for the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies 2017, edited by Bill Rebiger, 3–13. Berlin, Boston: Walter De Gruyter, 2017. [Link: Open Access]

• Aumiller, Rachel. “Antigone’s Stance amongst Yugoslavia’s Undead.” Studia ethnologica Croatica 29 (2017): 19–43.

• Aumiller, Rachel. “Twice-Two: Hegel’s Comic Redoubling of Being and Nothing.” Problemi: Journal for Psychoanalytic Theory and Philosophy 2 (2018): 253–278.

• Aumiller, Rachel. “The Aborted Object of Comedy: Plato and Aristophanes’ skeptical alliance.” In The Object of Comedy, edited by Gregor Moder and Jamila Mascat. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming 2018.

• Aumiller, Rachel. “The Lick of the Mother Tongue: Derrida, Augustine and Marx on the Touch of Language.” In Touch and Language, edited by Mirt Komel. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, forthcoming 2019.

• Aumiller, Rachel, ed. A Touch of Doubt: on Haptic Scepticism. Berlin, Boston: Walter De Gruyter, forthcoming 2019. 

Bartolucci, Guido (Senior Fellow)

• Bartolucci, Guido. “Jewish Thought vs. Lutheran Aristotelism. Johann Frischmuth (1619–1687) and Jewish Scepticism.” In Yearbook of the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies 2017, edited by Bill Rebiger, 95–106. Berlin, Boston: Walter De Gruyter, 2017. [Link: Open Access]

• Bartolucci, Guido. “Jewish Scepticism in Christian Eyes: Jacob F. Reimmann and the Transformation of Jewish Philosophy.” In Yearbook of the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies 2018, edited by Bill Rebiger. Berlin, Boston: Walter De Gruyter, forthcoming 2018. [Link: Open Access]

• Bartolucci, Guido. “Appendix I. Johannes Frischmuth (1619–1687).” In Alienated Wisdom, by Giuseppe Veltri, 297–302. Berlin, Boston: Walter De Gruyter, 2018.

• Bartolucci, Guido and Giuseppe Veltri. “Appendix II: [Edition of a Latin text by Johannes Frischmuth & Johann Leonhard Will], De loco Deut. XVII v. 8 et seqq. et quae ad illum moveri solet, quaestione: an Ebraei statuant, idem simul posse esse et non esse, exercitium academicum, Jena, Krebsius, 1658”. In Alienated Wisdom, by Giuseppe Veltri, 303–324. Berlin, Boston: Walter De Gruyter,  2018. 

Benbassat, Roi (Junior Fellow)

• Benbassat, Roi. “Jewish Faith and Scepticism—The Example of Yeshayahu Leibowitz. In Yearbook of the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies 2017, edited by Bill Rebiger, 161–181. Berlin, Boston: Walter De Gruyter, 2017. [Link: Open Access]

• Benbassat, Roi. “Emunah ke-maavak neged honaah atsmit etit (Faith as a struggle against ethical self-deception).” In Kirkegor : ben emunah otentit le-honaah atsmit (Kierkegaard: Between Authentic Faith and Self-deception), edited by Tamar Aylat Yaguri, Jacob Golomb, and Pini Ifergan, 23–37. Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 2018.

Bernardini, Paolo (Senior Fellow)

• Bernardini, Paolo. “Lo Scetticismo del Rabbino. Rileggendo Simone Luzzatto.” Henoch 37/2 (2015): 276–304.

• Bernardini, Paolo. “Hebraica veritas? Philosophy, Scepticism, and Politics in the Porta Veritatis (1634–1640).” In Yearbook of the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies 2016, edited by Giuseppe Veltri and Bill Rebiger, 77–94. Berlin, Boston: Walter De Gruyter, 2016. [Link: Open Access]

• Bernardini, Paolo. “Mysteries at the Gate of Truth. A re-appraisal of the Porta veritatis (1634– 1640).” Nuova Rivista Storica CI (2017): 65–82.

• Bernardini, Paolo. “Fighting for the Truth? Some Remarks on the Real Meaning of the Jewish- Christian Controversies and the Briel-Pinamonti polemics (1694–1702).” In Yearbook of the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies 2017, edited by Bill Rebiger, 230–237. Berlin, Boston: Walter De Gruyter, 2017. [Link: Open Access]

• Bernardini, Paolo. Jacob ben Amram [Benedetto Pinelli or Bento Pinhel], Porta veritatis. Sive compendiaria ad beatitudinem [ca. 1634–1640]. Text in Latin, Introduction and Commentary, in preparation.

Bluhm, Harald (Senior Fellow)

• Bluhm, Harald. “Was Leo Strauss a Zetetic Political Philosopher?” In Yearbook of the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies 2017, edited by Bill Rebiger, 145–160. Berlin, Boston: Walter De Gruyter, 2017. [Link: Open Access]

Brämer, Andreas (Senior Fellow)

• Brämer, Andreas: “Abraham Geiger – Skeptischer Pionier einer Glaubenslehre des Reformjudentums?” In Yearbook of the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies 2018, edited by Bill Rebiger. Berlin, Boston: Walter De Gruyter, forthcoming 2018. [Link: Open Access]

Caligiure, Teresa (Senior Fellow)

• Caligiure, Teresa. “In antiquam litem relabimur. Sceptical Hints in Petrarch‘s Scretum.” In Yearbook of the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies 2017, edited by Bill Rebiger, 29–50. Berlin, Boston: Walter de Gruyter. [Link: Open Access]

Chayes, Evelien (Junior Fellow)

• Chayes, Evelien and Giuseppe Veltri. Oltre le Mura del Ghetto: Accademie, Scetticismo e Tolleranza nella Venezia barocca. Studi e documenti d’archivio. Palermo: New Digital Frontiers, 2016.

Cohen-Skalli, Cedric (Senior Fellow)

• Cohen-Skalli, Cedric. “From the Court of the Kings to the Court of the Prophets: A New Inquiry into Abravanel’s Historicization of the Bible.” In Isaac Abravanel in His Times: Four Essays, ed. by Cedric Cohen-Skalli. Accepted for publication at the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.

• Cohen-Skalli, Cedric. Isaac Abravanel in His Times: Four Essays. Accepted for publication at the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (work in progress).

Eichner, Heidrun (Senior Fellow)

• Eichner, Heidrun. Endoxa and the Theology of Aristotle and Sceptical Elements in Avicenna’s Flying Man: What about the Cartesian Cogito? In Sceptical Paths: Essays on Scepticisms from Antiquity until the Early Modern Period and Beyond, edited by Veltri, Giuseppe, Racheli Haliva, Emidio Spinelli, and Stephan Schmid. Berlin, Boston: Walter De Gruyter, forthcoming 2018.

Garb, Jonathan (Senior Fellow)

• Garb, Jonathan. “Doubt and Certainty in Early Modern Kabbalah. In Yearbook of the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies 2017, edited by Bill Rebiger, 239–246. Berlin, Boston: Walter De Gruyter, 2017. [Link: Open Access]

Gutschmidt, Rico (Junior Fellow)

• Gutschmidt, Rico. “Skeptizismus und Negative Theologie. Performative Strukturen an den Grenzen des Verstehens.” Under review with Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie.

Haliva, Racheli (Co-Director)

• Haliva, Racheli. “Sources of Knowledge: Philosophy vs. Prophecy”, in Isaac Polqar – A Jewish Philosopher or a Philosopher and a Jew? A Study of the Relationship between Philosophy and Religion in Isaac Polqar’s ʿEzer ha-Dat [in Support of the Law] and Teshuvat Apikoros [A Response to the Heretic]. Berlin, Boston: Walter De Gruyter, forthcoming 2018.

• Haliva, Racheli. “The Origin of the World – An Anti-Sceptical Approach in Medieval Jewish Averroism.” In Scepticism and Anti-Scepticism in Jewish Philosophy and Thought, edited by Racheli Haliva, 130–145. Berlin, Boston: Walter De Gruyter, 2018.

• Haliva, Racheli, ed. Scepticism and Anti-Scepticism in Medieval Jewish Philosophy and Thought, Berlin, Boston: Walter De Gruyter, 2018.

• Haliva, Racheli, Giuseppe Veltri, Emidio Spinelli, and Stephan Schmid, eds. Sceptical Paths: Essays on Scepticisms from Antiquity until the Early Modern Period and Beyond. Berlin, Boston: Walter De Gruyter, forthcoming 2018.

Halper, Yehuda (Senior Fellow)

• Halper, Yehuda. “The Sex Life of a Metaphysical Sceptic: Platonic Themes in Gersonides’ Commentary on Song of Songs.” In Scepticism and Anti-Scepticism in Jewish Philosophy and Thought, edited by Racheli Haliva, 130–145. Berlin, Boston: Walter De Gruyter, 2018.

Hanner, Oren (Junior Fellow)

• Hanner, Oren, ed. Buddhism and Scepticism: Historical, Philosophical, and Comparative Perspectives. Hamburg Buddhist Studies. Freiburg: Projektverlag, forthcoming 2019.

• Hanner, Oren. “Scepticism, Scriptures and Reasoning in the Exegetical Method of Vasubandhu.” In Buddhism and Scepticism: Historical, Philosophical, and Comparative Perspectives. Hamburg Buddhist Studies. Freiburg: Projektverlag, forthcoming 2019.

Harari, Yuval (Senior Fellow)

• Harari, Yuval, “Maaseh shedim ve-halom [Magyat ha-halom ha-yehudit II] (Dreams, divination and demons [Jewish dream magic II]).” In Asif le-Yassif: Studies in Honor of Prof. Eli Yassif, edited by Tovah Rozen, David Rotman, Nili Aryeh-Sapir and Tsahi Sebah-Elran = Teuda 27 (2018): 187–232 (Hebrew).

Harvey, Zev Warren (Senior Fellow)

• Harvey, Zev Warren. Review Essay of Josef Stern’s Matter and Form in Maimonides‘ Guide of the Perplexed (in Hebrew). Iyyun. The Jerusalem Philosophical Quarterly 66 (2017): 399–404.

• Harvey, Zev Warren. “Maimonides, Crescas, and the Parable of the Castle.” In Scepticism and Anti-Scepticism, in Medieval Jewish Philosophy and Thought, edited by Racheli Haliva, 167–175 . Berlin, Boston: Walter De Gruyter, 2018.

• Harvey, Zev Warren. “The Problem of Many Gods in Al-Ghazali, Averroes, Maimonides, Crescas, and Sforno.” In Sceptical Paths: Essays on Scepticisms from Antiquity until the Early Modern Period and Beyond, edited by Giuseppe Veltri, Racheli Haliva, Emidio Spinelli, and Stephan Schmid, 167–175. Berlin, Boston: Walter De Gruyter, 2018.

Idel, Moshe (Visiting Scholar)

• Idel, Moshe. Abraham Abulafia‘s Esotericism: On Secrets and Doubts. Berlin, Boston: Walter De Gruyter, forthcoming 2019.

Kaplan, Lawrence (Senior Fellow)

• Kaplan, Lawrence. “The Purpose of the Guide of the Perplexed, Maimonides’ Theory of Parables, and Sceptical versus Dogmatic Readings of the Guide.” In Scepticism and Anti-Scepticism in Medieval Jewish Philosophy and Thought, edited by Racheli Haliva, 67–85. Berlin, Boston: Walter De Gruyter, 2018. 

Kern, Margit (Senior Fellow)

• Kern, Margit, ed. Visuelle Skepsis: Wie Bilder zweifeln. Berlin, Boston: Walter De Gruyter, forthcoming 2018.

• Kern, Margit. “Augentäuschung und Visuelle Skepsis in der Frühen Neuzeit.” In Ausstellungskatalog Lust der Täuschung. Von antiker Kunst bis zur Virtual Reality, edited by Roger Diederen, 59–67. München: Prestel, 2018.

Kiperwasser, Reuven (Senior Fellow)

• Kiperwasser, Reuven ed. “Facing the Omnipotence and Shaping the Skeptical Topos” (essay, work in progress).

Kreisel, Howard (Senior Fellow)

• Kreisel, Howard. Between Philosophic Optimism and Fideistic Scepticism: An Overview of Medieval Jewish Philosophy. In Scepticism and Anti-Scepticism in Medieval Jewish Philosophy and Thought, edited by Racheli Haliva, 67–85. Berlin, Boston: Walter De Gruyter, 2018.

Krinis, Ehud (Senior Fellow)

• Krinis, Ehud. Sceptical Aspects in Judah Halevi’s Kuzari (first draft, work in progress).

Lang, Lukas (Junior Fellow)

• Lang, Lukas. Reidian Common Sense. An Antidote to Scepticism?” In Yearbook of the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies 2018, edited by Bill Rebiger. Berlin, Boston: Walter De Gruyter, forthcoming 2018.

Lévy, Carlos (Senior Fellow)

• Lévy, Carlos. Philo of Alexandria vs Descartes. An Ignored Jewish Premonitory Critic of the cogito. In Sceptical Paths: Essays on Scepticisms from Antiquity until the Early Modern Period and Beyond, edited by Giuseppe Veltri, Racheli Haliva, Emidio Spinelli and Stephan Schmid. Berlin, Boston: Walter De Gruyter, forthcoming 2018.

Liss, Hanna (Senior Fellow)

• Liss, Hanna. “Scepticism, Critique, and the Art of Writing: Preliminary Considerations on the Question of Textual Authority in Medieval Peshaṭ Exegesis.” In Yearbook of the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies 2018, edited by Bill Rebiger. Berlin, Boston: Walter De Gruyter, forthcoming 2018.

Lissa, Anna (Former Research Team Member)

• Lissa, Anna, „La zooantropologica scettica nella visione luzzattiana del gran teatro del mondo”, In Filosofo e Rabbino nella Venezia del Seicento. Studi su Simone Luzzatto (1583 ca.-1663). Con un’appendice di documenti inediti dall’Archivio di Stato, edited by Giuseppe Veltri, 91–182 Rome: Aracne, 2015.

• Lissa, Anna and Giuseppe Veltri. “Come attraversar il canale restando fermi: un responso famoso di Simone Luzzatto nell’enciclopedia di Isacco Lampronti.” In Nuovi studi su Isacco Lampronti. Storia, poesia, scienza e halakah, edited by Mauro Perani, 259–269. Firenze: Giuntina, 2017.

• Lissa, Anna and Giuseppe Veltri. “La prudence de Simone Luzzatto dans le grand théâtre du monde.” In La Vertu des Païens, edited by Silvie Taussi. Paris: Éditions Kimé, 2018. 

• Luzzatto, Simone. Discourse on the State of the Jews and in particular those dwelling in the illustrious city of Venice (1638). Bilingual Edition, edited, translated, and commented by Giuseppe Veltri and Anna Lissa. Berlin, Boston: Walter De Gruyter, forthcoming 2018.

Louria-Hayon, Adi (Junior Fellow)

• Louria-Hayon, Adi. Bruce Nauman: Performative Scepticism and the Aporia of Sense. Berlin, Boston: Walter De Gruyter Publishers, forthcoming 2018.

• Louria-Hayon, Adi. “The Dialectics of Failed Perception in the Early Work of Bruce Nauman.” In Visuelle Skepsis: Wie Bilder Zweifeln, edited by Margit Kern. Berlin, Boston: Walter De Gruyter, forthcoming April 2019.

• Louria-Hayon, Adi. “The Weak Relations of Touch and Sight through the Passage of Lapsed Time.” In A Touch of Doubt: on Haptic Scepticism, edited by Rachel Aumiller. Berlin, Boston: Walter De Gruyter, forthcoming 2019.

Lucci, Diego (Senior Fellow)

• Lucci, Diego. “Political Scepticism, Moral Scepticism, and the Scope and Limits of Toleration in John Locke.” In Yearbook of the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies 2018, edited by Bill Rebiger. Berlin, Boston: Walter De Gruyter, forthcoming 2018.

• Lucci, Diego. “John Locke on Atheism, Catholicism, Antinomianism, and Deism.” Ethics & Politics 20 (forthcoming 2018). 

• Lucci, Diego. “The Law of Nature, Mosaic Judaism, and Primitive Christianity in John Locke and the English Deists.” Entangled Religions: Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Religious Contact and Transfer 6 (forthcoming 2019).

Malachi, Ariel (Junior Fellow)

• Malachi, Ariel. “Scepticism at the Service of Revelation? Preliminary Observations on Logic and Epistemology in Judah Halevi‘s Kuzari.“ In Scepticism and Anti-Scepticism in Medieval Jewish Philosophy and Thought, edited by Racheli Haliva, 23–40. Berlin, Boston: Walter De Gruyter, 2018.

• Malakhi, Ariel. Skhaltanut ve-Filosofyah be-Mahshevet Rihal: ben Logikah, Epistemologiyah ve-Hitgalut be-Sefer ha-Kuzari (Rationalism and Philosophy in Judah Halevi's Thought: between Logic, Epistemology and Revelation in the Kuzari), Ph.D. Bar-Ilan University, 2017, 342 p. (Hebrew)

Pisano, Libera (Junior Fellow)

• Pisano, Libera. “Misunderstanding Metaphors: Linguistic Scepticism in Mauthner’s Philosophy.” In Yearbook of the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies 2016, edited by Giuseppe Veltri and Bill Rebiger, 95–122. Berlin, Boston: Walter De Gruyter, 2016. [Link: Open Access]

• Pisano, Libera. “Silence, Translation, and Grammatical Therapy: Some Features of Linguistic Scepticism in the Thought of Rosenzweig and Wittgenstein.” In Yearbook of the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies 2017, edited by Bill Rebiger, 121–143. Berlin, Boston: Walter De Gruyter, 2017. [Link: Open Access]

• Pisano, Libera. Anarchic Scepticism. Language, Mysticism, and Revolution in Gustav Landauer. In Yearbook of the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies 2018, edited by Bill Rebiger. Berlin, Boston: Walter De Gruyter, forthcoming 2018.

•  Pisano, Libera. “Lo Spazio Diventa Tempo. Scetticismo, Anarchia e Messianismo in Gustav Landauer.” In Teologia Politica, edited by Elettra Stimilli. Macerata: Quodlibet, forthcoming 2018.
  
  
• Pisano, Libera. ”I Limiti del Linguaggio e la Diversità delle Lingue. Tracce di Scetticismo Linguistico nella Filosofia di Franz Rosenzweig.” In Archivio di filosofia, 1 (2018): 161–169.

Rebiger, Bill (Research Team Member)

• Rebiger, Bill. “The Early Opponents of the Kabbalah and the Role of Sceptical Argumentations: An Outline.” In Yearbook of the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies 2016, edited by Giuseppe Veltri and Bill Rebiger, 39–57. Berlin, Boston: Walter De Gruyter, 2016. [Link: Open Access]

• Veltri, Giuseppe and Bill Rebiger, eds. Yearbook of the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies 2016. Berlin, Boston: Walter De Gruyter, 2016. [Link: Open Access]

• Rebiger, Bill. “Sceptical Strategies in Simone Luzzatto’s Presentation of the Kabbalists in his Discorso.” In Yearbook of the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies 2017, edited by Bill Rebiger, 51–69. Berlin, Boston: Walter De Gruyter, 2017. [Link: Open Access]

• Rebiger, Bill, ed. Yearbook of the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies 2017. Berlin, Boston: Walter De Gruyter, 2017. [Link: Open Access]

• Rebiger, Bill. “Sceptical Elements in a Dogmatic Stance: Isaac Polqar Against the Kabbalah.” In Yearbook of the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies 2018, edited by Bill Rebiger. Berlin, Boston: Walter De Gruyter, forthcoming 2018.

• Rebiger, Bill, ed. Yearbook of the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies 2018. Berlin, Boston: Walter De Gruyter, forthcoming 2018.

Ruderman, David (Senior Fellow)

• Ruderman, David, ed. Converts of Conviction. Faith and Scepticism in Nineteenth Century European Jewish Society. Berlin, Boston: Walter De Gruyter, 2018. [Link: Open Access]

Salah, Asher

• Salah, Asher. “Judaism as a Moral Theology: the Work and the Figure of Elisha Pontremoli.” Zakhor, Nuova Serie, 1 (2017): 101–129.

• Salah, Asher. “Are Karaites Sceptics? The Jewish Perception of Karaism in Nineteenth Century Italy.” In Yearbook of the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies 2018, edited by Bill Rebiger. Berlin, Boston: Walter De Gruyter, forthcoming 2018.

• Salah, Asher. “Jewish reform in 19th century Italy”. forthcoming

Sánchez de Leon Serrano, José María (Senior Fellow)

• Sánchez de León Serrano, José María. “The Place of Skepticism in Spinoza‘s Thought.” History of Philosophy Quarterly 35/1 (2018): 1–19. 

• Sánchez de León Serrano, José María. “Spinoza on Global Doubt.” In Sceptical Paths: Essays on Scepticisms from Antiquity until the Early Modern Period and Beyond, edited by Giuseppe Veltri, Racheli Haliva, Emidio Spinelli and Stephan Schmid. Berlin, Boston: Walter De Gruyter, forthcoming 2018.

• Sánchez de León Serrano, José María. “Attained or Given? Divine Knowledge in Spinoza” (under review).

• Sánchez de Léon Serrano, José María. “Spinoza on Common Notions and the Order of Philosophizing.”(work in progress)

• Sánchez de Léon Serrano, José María. “Wholes and Parts in Spinoza‘s Letter 32.”(work in progress)

• Sánchez de Léon Serrano, José María. “Spinoza‘s Argument for God‘s Existence in the Tractatus theologico-politicus.”(work in progress).

Schechter, Oded (Junior Fellow)

• Schechter, Oded. “Eternity and Agency in Spinoza's philosophy”. In Blackwell Companion to Spinoza, edited by Yitzhak Melamed. Malden: Blackwell, forthcoming.

• Schechter, Oded. “Spinoza’s Ontological Criticism of Scepticism.” (essay, work in progress)

Schmid, Stephan (Co-Director)

• Schmid, Stephan. “Intuition.” In Enzyklopädie der Neuzeit Online, edited by Friedrich Jaeger & Gerald Hartung (area editor), Leiden: Brill, 2017. URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2468-3418_dnpo9_a6025000

• Schmid, Stephan. “Erkenntnistheorie in der Frühen Neuzeit.” In Handbuch Erkenntnistheorie, edited by Martin Grajner and Guido Melchior. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2018.

• Schmid, Stephan. “Epistemic Responsibility in an Occasionalist World. Malebranche‘s Theory of Judgment.” In Active Approaches to Intellectual Cognition, edited by Ana María Mora- Márquez and Véronique Decaix. Dordrecht: Springer, 2018.

• Schmid, Stephan, ed. Philosophy of Mind in the Late Middle Ages and Renaissance. London, New York: Routledge, 2018.

• Schmid, Stephan. “Varieties of Early Modern Scepticism.” In Sceptical Paths: Essays on Scepticisms from Antiquity until the Early Modern Period and Beyond, edited by Giuseppe Veltri, Racheli Haliva, Emidio Spinelli, and Stephan Schmid. Berlin, Boston: Walter De Gruyter, forthcoming 2018.

• Schmid, Stephan. “Causation and Cognition in Malebranche”. In Causation and Cognition in the Early Modern Period, edited by Sebastian Bender and Dominik Perler, London: Routledge, forthcoming 2019.

• Schmid, Stephan. “Conscientia in Spinoza”. Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences, forthcoming 2019.

• Schmid, Stephan. “Spinoza’s Anti-Skepticism.” In Blackwell Companion to Spinoza, edited by Yitzhak Melamed. Malden: Blackwell, forthcoming.

• Schmid, Stephan. Descartes’ and Leibniz’ Conception of the Will. (work in progress)

• Schmid, Stephan and Yitzhak Melamed. “Report on the Sceptical Atelier on Maimon’s Lebensgeschichte (6–9 February, 2017).” In Yearbook of the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies 2017, edited by Bill Rebiger, 293–298. Berlin, Boston: Walter De Gruyter, 2017. [Link: Open Access]

• Schmid, Stephan, Giuseppe Veltri, Racheli Haliva, and Emidio Spinelli, eds. Sceptical Paths: Essays on Scepticisms from Antiquity until the Early Modern Period and Beyond. Berlin, Boston: Walter De Gruyter, forthcoming 2018.

Schnieder, Benjamin (Senior Fellow)

• Kappes, Yannic, and Benjamin Schnieder. “Anything at All. The Deepest and the Shallowest Question.” Philosophisches Jahrbuch 123/2 (2016): 543–565.

• Kappes, Yannic, and Benjamin Schnieder. “Optimalism and the Grounds of Existential Truths.” Philosophisches Jahrbuch 124/2 (2017): 264–272.

• Schnieder, Benjamin: “Grounding and dependence.” Synthese 194 (2017): 1–30.

Snyder, Charles (Junior Fellow)

• Snyder, Charles. “Becoming Like a Woman: Philosophy in Plato’s Theaetetus.” Epochê: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 21/1 (2016): 1–19.

• Snyder, Charles. “Two Kinds of Belief for Classical Academic Skepticism.” In Yearbook of the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies 2016, edited by Giuseppe Veltri and Bill Rebiger, 7–22. Berlin, Boston: Walter De Gruyter, 2016. [Link: Open Access]

• Snyder, Charles.  Review of David Ambuel, Turtles All the Way Down: On Plato’s 'Theaetetus', a Commentary and Translation. Sankt Augustin: Academia Verlag, 2015. Bryn Mawr Classical Review, Blog 2.8.2016, 4 pages

• Snyder Charles,  “Academic scepticism and the secrecy of Plato’s Theaetetus”, under review at Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy.

• Snyder, Charles. “Plato and the Freedom of the New Academy.” In Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Plato in Antiquity, edited by Harold Tarrant, Danielle A. Layne, Dirk Baltzly and François Renaud. Leiden: Brill, 2017.

• Snyder, Charles. “On the Teaching of Ethics from Polemo to Arcesilaus.” Études platoniciennes 14 (2018), 1-29.

• Snyder, Charles. “Renaissance Skepticism.” In Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy, edited by Marco Sgarbi. Springer, forthcoming.

Spinelli, Emidio (Senior Fellow)

• Spinelli, Emidio. “Some blunt instruments of dogmatic logic: Sextus Empiricus‘ sceptical attack.” In Yearbook of the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies 2017, edited by Bill Rebiger, 15–27. Berlin, Boston: Walter De Gruyter, 2017. [Link: Open Access]

• Spinelli, Emidio, Giuseppe Veltri, Racheli Haliva, and Stephan Schmid, eds. Sceptical Paths: Essays on Scepticisms from Antiquity until the Early Modern Period and Beyond. Berlin, Boston: Walter De Gruyter, forthcoming 2018.

Stern, Josef (Senior Fellow)

• Stern, Josef. Ha-homer veha-tsurah be-Moreh Nevukhim la-Rambam (Hebrew translation of: The Matter and form of Maimonides’ Guide). Bnei Brak: Ha-Kibbutz Ha-Meuhad Publishing, 2017.

• Stern, Josef. “Was jüdische Philosophie sein könnte (wenn es sie gäbe). Ein mediävistischer Blick.” Zeitschrift für Kulturphilosophie 2 (2017): 7–30.

• Stern, Josef. “What is Jewish Philosophy? A View from the Middle Ages.” In Yearbook of the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies 2017, edited by Bill Rebiger, 185–204. Berlin, Boston: Walter De Gruyter, 2017. [Link: Open Access]

• Stern, Josef. “What a Jewish Philosophy Might Be (If It Exists): A View from the Middle Ages.” Iyyun The Jerusalem Philosophical Quarterly 66 (2017): 227–257.

• Stern, Josef. “What is Maimonidean Scepticsm?.” In Sceptical Paths: Essays on Scepticisms from Antiquity until the Early Modern Period and Beyond, edited by Giuseppe Veltri, Racheli Haliva, Emidio Spinelli, and Stephan Schmid. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, forthcoming 2018. 

• Stern, Josef. The Unbinding of Isaac: Maimonides on the Parable of the Aqedah and Dying for God. (work in progress)

• Stern, Josef. The Epistemology of Prophecy: Maimonides on the False Prophet and the Maimonidean Circle. (work in progress)

• Stern, Josef and James T. Robinson and Yonatan Shemesh, eds. The Guide of the Perplexed in Translation: A history of the translations of Maimonides‘ Guide and their impact, from medieval times to the twentieth century. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, spring 2019.

Torbidoni, Michela (Associated Scholar)

• Torbidoni, Michaela. “Il metodo del dubbio nel Socrate.” In Filosofo e Rabbino nella Venezia del Seicento. Studi su Simone Luzzatto (1583 ca.-1663). Con un’appendice di documenti inediti dall’Archivio di Stato, edited by Giuseppe Veltri, 183–245 Rome: Aracne, 2015.

• Torbidoni, Michela. “The Italian Academies and Rabbi Simone Luzzatto’s Socrate: the Freedom of the Ingenium and the Soul.” In Yearbook of the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies 2017, edited by Bill Rebiger, 71–94. Berlin, Boston: Walter De Gruyter, 2017. [Link: Open Access]

• Torbidoni, Michela. “Il dubbio per la rivelazione. Tracce di scetticismo in Franz Rosenzweig” (Doubt and Revelation. Traces of scepticism in Franz Rosenzweig). In Archivio di Filosofia 1 (forthcoming 2018).

• Torbidoni, Michela and Veltri Giuseppe. “Alcune considerazioni sulla sospensione del giudizio e il silenzio nella tradizione ebraica scettica [together with Michela Torbidoni]. In Seconda navigazione, Omaggio a Giovanni Reale, edited by Roberto Radice and Glauco Tiengo, 745–757. Milan: Bompiani, 2015.

• Luzzatto, Simone. Socrates or on Human knowledge. The Serious-Playful Exercise of Simone Luzzatto, Venetian Jews (1651). Bilingual Edition, edited, translated, and commented by Giuseppe Veltri and Michela Torbidoni. Berlin, Boston: Walter De Gruyter, forthcoming 2018.

Veltri, Giuseppe (Director)

• Veltri, Giuseppe. “Linguistic Scepticism.” In Yearbook of the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies 2016, edited by Giuseppe Veltri and Bill Rebiger, 23–38. Berlin, Boston: Walter De Gruyter, 2016. [Link: Open Access]

• Veltri, Giuseppe. “The limits of scepticism and tolerance.” Bollettino della Società Filosofica Italiana 221 (2017): 37–55.

• Veltri, Giuseppe. “Exchanging cultural space: The Jewish Ghetto and the Italian Academies.” Rivista di Storia del Cristianesimo 14 (2017): 15–30.

• Veltri, Giuseppe. Sapienza Alienata. La Filosofia ebraica tra mito, storia e scetticismo. Rome: Aracne, 2017.

• Veltri, Giuseppe. “Scepticism in Jewish Philosophy and Thought: A Status Quaestionis.” In Judaistik im Wandel. Ein halbes Jahrhundert Forschung und Lehre über das Judentum in Deutschland, edited by Andreas Lehnhardt, 211–222. Berlin, Boston: Walter De Gruyter, 2017.

• Veltri, Giuseppe. Negotiating the Principle of (Non)-Contradiction: Johann Frischmuth on the Rabbinic Dialectic Discussion. In Yearbook of the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies 2017, edited by Bill Rebiger, 107–119. Berlin, Boston: Walter De Gruyter, 2017. [Link: Open Access]

• Veltri, Giuseppe. Alienated Wisdom: Enquiry into Jewish Philosophy and Scepticism. Berlin, Boston: Walter De Gruyter, 2018.

• Veltri, Giuseppe. “Religious unexclusiveness: the Strategic Relativism of Yehoshua ha-Lorki.” In A Mi Derecha Michael : Limini Mikha’el : Jubilee Volume in Sephardic History Honoring Michael Studemund-Halévy, eds. Harm den Boer, Carsten Wilke, and Anna Menny. Barcelona, Tirocinio, 2018. (Vol.1 of Festschrift).

• Veltri, Giuseppe. Between Reason and Faith: Sa‘adya Ga’on and Jewish and Arabic Medieval Scepticism. Berlin, Boston: Walter De Gruyter, forthcoming 2019.

• Veltri, Giuseppe. Aristotle and the Sceptical Rabbi. The Principles of Contradiction and Experience in Rabbinic Dialectic. Berlin, Boston: Walter forthcoming 2019.

• Bartolucci, Guido and Giuseppe Veltri. “Appendix II: Edition of a Latin text by Johannes Frischmuth & Johann Leonhard Will, De loco Deut. XVII v. 8 et seqq. et quae ad illum moveri solet, quaestione: an Ebraei statuant, idem simul posse esse et non esse, exercitium academicum, Jena, Krebsius, 1658. In Alienated Wisdom, by Giuseppe Veltri. Berlin, Boston: Walter De Gruyter, 2018.

• Veltri, Giuseppe and Evelien Chayes. Oltre le mura del ghetto: Accademie, scetticismo e tolleranza nella Venezia barocca. Studi e documenti d’archivio. Palermo: New Digital Frontiers, 2016. 

• Veltri, Giuseppe and Anna Lissa. “Come attraversar il canale restando fermi: un responso famoso di Simone Luzzatto nell’enciclopedia di Isacco Lampronti.” In Nuovi studi su Isacco Lampronti. Storia, poesia, scienza e halakah, edited by Mauro Perani, 259–269. Firenze: Giuntina, 2017.   

• Veltri, Giuseppe and Anna Lissa. “La Prudence de Simone Luzzatto dans le Grand Théâtre du Monde.” In La Vertu des Païens, edited by Silvie Taussi. Paris: Éditions Kimé, 2018.

• Luzzatto, Simone. Discourse on the State of the Jews and in particular those dwelling in the illustrious city of Venice (1638). Bilingual Edition, edited, translated, and commented by Giuseppe Veltri and Anna Lissa. Berlin, Boston: Walter De Gruyter, forthcoming 2018.

• Veltri, Giuseppe and Bill Rebiger, eds. Yearbook of the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies 2016. Berlin, Boston: Walter De Gruyter, 2016. [Link: Open Access]

• Veltri, Giuseppe and Michela Torbidoni. “Alcune considerazioni sulla sospensione del giudizio e il silenzio nella tradizione ebraica scettica [together with Michela Torbidoni]. In Seconda navigazione, Omaggio a Giovanni Reale, edited by Roberto Radice and Glauco Tiengo, 745– 757. Milan: Bompiani, 2015.

• Luzzatto, Simone. Socrates or on Human knowledge. The Serious-Playful Exercise of Simone Luzzatto, Venetian Jews (1651). Bilingual Edition, edited, translated, and commented by Giuseppe Veltri and Michela Torbidoni. Berlin, Boston: Walter De Gruyter, forthcoming 2018.

• Veltri, Giuseppe, Racheli Haliva, Emidio Spinelli, and Stephan Schmid, eds. Sceptical Paths: Essays on Scepticisms from Antiquity until the Early Modern Period and Beyond. Berlin, Boston: Walter De Gruyter, forthcoming 2018.

Veres, Máté (Junior Fellow)

• Veres, Máté, Review of: Scepticisme et Religion: Constantes et Évolutions, de la Philosophie Hellénistique à la Philosophie Médiévale. Monothéismes et Philosophie, edited by Anne- Isabelle Bouton-Touboulic and Carlos Lévy. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2016. In Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2017.07.32, 4 p.

• Veres, Máté. “How to resist musical dogmatism: The aim and methods of Pyrrhonean inquiry in Sextus Empiricus' Against the Musicologists." In The Harmony of Reason: Music and Philosophy from the Early Imperial Age to Late Antiquity, edited by Francesco. Pelosi and Frederico .M. Petrucci. Under review at Cambridge University Press. Expected publication: end of 2018

• Veres, Máté. “Theology, Innatism, and the Epicurean Self”. In Ancient Philosophy 37 (2017), 129–159.

• Veres, Máté. “Sextus Empiricus on religious dogmatism.” (under review)

• Veres, Máté. “Keep calm and carry on: Sextus Empiricus on the origins of Pyrrhonism” (work in progress).

• Veres, Máté. Review of: V. Politis and G. Karamanolis (eds.), The Aporetic Tradition in Ancient Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Commissioned by Bryn Mawr Classics Review. To be published in August 2018.

• Veres, Máté. Review of: Richard Bett (ed. and tr.), Sextus Empiricus, Against Those in the Disciplines. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Commissioned by the International Journal for the Study of Skepticism. To be published in December 2018.

Westerkamp, Dirk (Senior Fellow)

• Westerkamp, Dirk. “Quaestio sceptica disputata de philosophia judaeorum: Is there a Jewish Philosophy?” In Yearbook of the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies 2018, edited by Bill Rebiger. Berlin, Boston: Walter De Gruyter, forthcoming 2018.

Wilke, Carsten (Senior Fellow)

• Wilke, Carsten. “Clandestine Classics: Isaac Orobio’s Polemical Works and the Generic Traditions of Sephardi Anti-Christian Literature. In The Jewish Argument with Dogma and Doubt, edited by Carsten Wilke. Berlin, Boston: Walter De Gruyter, 2018. [Link: Open Access]

• Wilke, Carsten, ed. Isaac Orobio: The Jewish Argument with Dogma and Doubt. Berlin, Boston: Walter De Gruyter, 2018. [Link: Open Access]