Edelstein Center

For the History and Philosophy of Science, Technology and Medicine

2017-2018 at the Edelstein Center:

25.4.2018 Bar-Hillel Colloquium. Vololona Rabeharisoa- Making Rareness Count. Patient Activism and Politics of Knowledge in the War on Rare Genetic Diseases.

1.5.2018 Annual Lecture in Honors of Itamar Pitowski. Mauro Dorato- The meaning and status of contextuality and relationality in quantum mechanics.

7-8.5.2018 Historical and Philosophical Perspectives on the Continuum.

23.5.2018 Bar-Hillel Colloquium. Hanoch Gutfreund- Albert Einstein, Philosopher - Scientist.

8-13.7.2018 New Agents and Agencies: Science, Technology, and Subjectivity

And more to come!

Past Events of 2017-2018

5-8.11.2017 Visualizing the Soul

15.11.2017 Edelstein Colloquium. Marco Giovanelli- Physics is a Kind of Metaphysics. On Émile Meyerson's Influence on Einstein's Rationalistic Realism .

29.11.20117 Edelstein Colloquium. Gila Sher- Invariance as a Basis for Necessity and Laws.

13.12.2017 Bar-Hillel Colloquium. Giora Hon- James Clerk Maxwell’s Methodological Odyssey in Electromagnetism: A Philosophical Perspective.

17-19.12.2017 Final symposium of the GIF funded research project on “Causation and Computation in Neuroscience".

27.12.2017 Understanding,Causation,and Representation: A Workshop in Philosophy of Science.

27.12.2017 Edelstein Colloquium. Manfred Posani Löwenstein- Making Sense of “Fake News”: Burckhardt’s Method and the Burning of the Louvre.

10.1.2018 Bar-Hillel Colloquium. Annual Lecture in Honors of Mara Beller. Christoph Lehner- The Rationality of Science. What Have we Learned from History of Science?

7.2.2018 Edelstein Colloquium. Mantas Radzvilas- Behavioural Economics and the Problem of Inner Rational Self.

8-10.2.2018 Explanation and Reduction in the Sciences (The Third Jerusalem-MCMP Workshop in the Philosophy of Science)

21.3.2018 Bar-Hillel Colloquium. Efthymios Nicolaidis- Science and Orthodox Christianity: A Complicated Historical Relationship?

22.3.2018 Workshop- The Temporal Dimension of Action.

26-27.3.2018 Mini-Workshop on Attitudes to Risk

10.4.2018 Sam Schweber Memorial Workshop

Last Year's Events

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