Edelstein Center

For the History and Philosophy of Science, Technology and Medicine

Upcoming events at the Edelstein Center:

2016-2017 Bar-Hillel Colloquium 

2016-2017 Edelstein Colloquium-

28-30.6.201 Linguistic Perspectives on Causation

Please visit POND's Website- Philosophy Of Science Around the Mediterranean

Recent Events at the Edelstein Center

20-21.6.2017 Alternative Logics and Natural Languages

19-21.6.2017 International Workshop- Rational Animals?

14.6.2017 Keith Lehrer, the University of Arizona- Knowledge, Truth and Evidence

8.6.2017 HPS Students Conference

7.6.2017 Jennifer Corns, University of Glasgow- Pain is not a Natural Kind

10.5.2016 Ute Deichmann,Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Jacques Loeb Centre - Bacon, Popper or Polanyi? The philosophy of modern experimental biology and the impact of the big data revolution 

3.5.2016 Klodian Coko, The Edelstein Center for History and Philosophy of Science, Technology and Medicine- On the Multiple Determination of Experimental Results

26.4.2017 Fernando Vidal, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona- The History of the “Cerebral Subject” as History of the Present

20.4.2017 Phenomenology and Science

19.4.2017 2017 Annual Lecture in Memory of Prof. Itamar Pitowsky. Robert Spekkens, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics.

22.3.2017 The Descent of Man. Celebrating the Publication of the First Hebrew Translation.

22.3.2017 Snait Gissis, Tel Aviv University- Evolutionary-Biological Discourses and Emerging Social Sciences: Sociologies and Psychologies at the Turn of the 19th Century

15.3.2017 Igal Galili, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem- Newton’s First Law: Text, Translations, Lost meaning and Implications to Representation of Newton’s theory.

8.3.2017 Tal Golan, University of California, San Diege- Science, Water and Nation Building: The Birth of the National Water Carrier and the Battle Over the Identity of Israel.

1.3.2017 Dan Baras, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem- Do Extraordinary Types Cry for Explanation?

25.1.2107 Lecture in Memory of Professor Mara Beller. Ana Simoes, Centro Interuniversitario de Historia des Ciencias e da Tecnologia, Portugal- Shifting European Centers and Peripheries: The Case of Portugal and Naturalist Correia de Serra (1751-1823)

18.1.2017 John Bickle, Mississippi State University- Little-e Eliminativism in Recent Molecular and Cellular Cognition

4.1.2017 Sam Freed, University of Sussex- A Role for Introspection in AI Research- a Case of (Seriously) Interdisciplinary Research

21.12.2016 Pnina Geraldine Abir-Am, Brandeis University- The Discovery of RNA Splicing at 40: (2017, 1977) History, Memory, and Social Justice

14.12.2016 Varda Bar, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem- 100 Years of Electricity: 1730-1830

7.12.2016 Ofer Gal, University of Sidney- The Real Issue

16.11.2016 Alyssa Ney, University of California- Physics and Fundamentality

4-5.9.2016 Philosophy of Science and its Relevance to Science

29-30.8.2016 Logic, Meaning and Language.

9.6.2016 Annual Graduate Students Conference. The Department of History, Philosophy and Sociology of Science in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

21.6.2016 In the Footsteps of Paul Ehrlich (1854-1915): The Past, Present and Future of Targeted Drug Therapy. 

5.6.2016 "Observation and Knowledge in Early Modern Europe" A Symposium to celebrate the publication of Raz Chen-Morris' Measuring Shadows : Kepler's Optics of Invisibility.

30.5-2.6.2016 Information & Information ​Processing and their Role in Science: Physics, Biology and ​Cognitive ​& Brain Sciences​.

25.5.2016 Christian List, London School of Economics- Objective Chance as an Emergent Phenomenon

19-20.5.2016 Probabilities in Science and Philosophy- The First Jerusalem-MCMP Workshop in the Philosophy of Science

18.5.2016 Alan Nelson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill- Descartes' Anti-Mathematicism 

12.4.2016 Hilary Putnam Memorial

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4-7.4.2016 George Berkeley in Jerusalem

6.4.2016 Bar Hillel Colloquium: MiKlos Redei- Why Bertrand's Paradox is Not Paradoxical but it Felt So

30.3.2016 Edelstein Colloquium: Thomas Polzler- Can the Empirical Sciences Contribute to the Moral Realism\Anti-Realism Debate?

23.3.2016 Edelstein Colloquium: Efraim Wallach- What is Explained by the "Niche Construction Theory"?

16.3.2016 Edelstein Colloquium: Shaul Katzir- The Invention of the Quartz Clock: Measurements, Standards and Telecommunication. 

9.3.2016 Edelstein Colloquium: Yona Siderer- The Evolution of Chemistry Language in Mid-19th Century Japan

7.3.2016 The Tibbons- A Workshop

2.3.2016  The Annual Memorial Itamar Pitowsky Lecture. Hue Price- Time's Arrow and Eddington's Challenge.

24.2.2016 The Annual Memorial Mara Beller Lecture. Kostas Gavroglu- A Question in Need of an Answer: How Can the Phenomenal Publishing Success of Kuhn's Structure be Understood? 

27.1.2016  The Ada Lovelace Bicentenary Lectures on Computability

13.1.2016 Edelstein Colloquium: Marc Hight- Berkeley's Metaphysical Instrumentalism.

30.12.2015 Edelstein Colloquium: Jack Woods- Modest Inferentialism for Classic Logic.

16.12.2015 Edelstein Colloquium: Richard Bradley- Ellsberg's Paradox and the Value of Chances.

18.11.2015 Edelstein Colloquium: Laurie Paul- The Persisting Self in Time.

2.11.2015 Bar Hillel Colloquium: Noam Chomsky- Problems and Mysteries Revisited.

28.10.2015 Edelstein Colloquium: Edward Larson- Science, Religion and Eugenics in Historical Perspective.

21.10.2015 Edelstein Colloquium: Jill North- The Structure of Spacetime: a New Approach to the Spacetime Ontology Debate.

14-15.10.2105 Space, Time and Spacetime.

Last update: 28.6.2017

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