July 21
Workshop: Gersonides and Spinoza
“Gersonides and Spinoza on Love and Joy,” Warren Zev Harvey
“Where there is no Sensible, there is no Intelligible: Gersonides’s Materialist Epistemology,” Idit Dobbs-Weinstein
“Spinoza’s Critique of Gersonides’s View on Divine Omniscience,” Yitzhak Y. Melamed
“Gersonides and Spinoza on Philosophical Transformation,” Jason M. Yonover
Please note: this session will exceptionally begin at 8:30am Eastern time (and continue until 12:15pm Eastern). Sessions will last 50 minutes and we will have a brief break at 10:15am Eastern.
Warren Zev Harvey is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Jewish Thought at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he has taught since 1977. He holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Columbia University (1973) and is the author of countless studies on medieval and modern philosophy, including Physics and Metaphysics in Hasdai Crescas (1998).
Idit Dobbs-Weinstein is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University. Her research areas include Aristotle, Medieval Jewish, Arabic and Christian Philosophy, Spinoza, Political Philosophy, Philosophy of History, and Critical Theory (especially Adorno and Benjamin). Her current project involves the critical examination of dominant modes of interpreting Aristotle's De Anima and Metaphysics and the recovery of an alternate materialist Aristotelian tradition occluded by them.
Yitzhak Y. Melamed is Charlotte Bloomberg Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University. He holds an MA in philosophy and the history of science and logic from Tel Aviv University, and a PhD in philosophy from Yale University (2005). He works at the intersection of philosophy (primarily metaphysics), Jewish and religious studies, the history of science, and the humanities in general.
Jason Maurice Yonover is the incoming Desai Postdoctoral Fellow at Princeton University. He works primarily in the history of philosophy and German studies, with a focus on German philosophy and political thought in particular. He is co-editor of Spinoza in Germany: Political and Religious Thought across the Long Nineteenth Century (forthcoming with OUP) and the author of articles or chapters in the European Journal of Philosophy, the Oxford Handbook of 19th-Century Women Philosophers in the German Tradition, and the Blackwell Companion to Spinoza.
A recording of the session will be made available on the “Downloads” page for some time following the event.
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