Menachem Fisch
Menachem Fisch | |
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Queen's College, Oxford | |
Main interests | philosophy of science, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, rationality, normativity, and Jewish philosophy |
Menachem Fisch is an Israeli philosopher. He is the Joseph and Ceil Mazer Professor Emeritus of History and Philosophy of Science, and co-Director of the Frankfurt-Tel Aviv Center for the Study of Religious and Interreligious Dynamics at
Fisch has published widely on the history of 19th-century British science and mathematics, on confirmation theory, on rationality and agency, on the theology of the talmudic literature, and the philosophy of talmudic legal reasoning. In recent work he explores the limits of normative self-criticism, the Talmud's dialogism and dispute of religiosity, the historiography and narratology of scientific framework transitions, political emotions, and the possibility of articulating a pluralist and liberal political philosophy from within the assumptions of traditional Judaism. Fisch's current philosophical work focuses on reflexive emotions.
Fisch has been a member of the
Awards and honors
February 2004 The Crown-Minnow Lectures at the University of Notre Dame.
In 2016 A volume dedicated to his work, entitled Menachem Fisch: The Rationality of Religious Dispute, was published by Brill as Vol. 18 of The Library of Contemporary Jewish Philosophers, (eds. H. Samuelson-Tiroshi and A. W. Hughes).
2016 recipient of
2017 awarded an honorary doctorate in religious philosophy from the
January 2020 The Dagmar Westberg Lectures at the
In 2020, a collection of engagements with his work entitled: Changing One's Mind: Philosophy, Religion And Science, (edited by. Y. Schwartz, P. Franks and C. Wiese), was published as a special issue of Open Philosophy (3, 2020)
November 2023 The Liss Lecture at the University of Notre Dame.
February 2024 The Yerushah Lecture at Cambridge University.
July 2024 The Josef Horovitz Lecture,
Publications
Books
- William Whewell Philosopher of Science, Oxford University Press, 1991
- William Whewell: A Composite Portrait, Oxford University Press, 1991 (edited with S.J. Schaffer)
- To Know Wisdom - Science, Rationality and Torah-study, (Hebrew), Tel Aviv, 1994
- Rational Rabbis: Science and Talmudic Culture, Indiana University Press, 1997
- The View from Within: Normativity and the Limits of Self-Criticism, University of Notre Dame Press, 2011 (with Y. Benbaji)
- Creatively Undecided: Toward a History and Philosophy of Scientific Agency, The University of Chicago Press, 2017[6]
- Covenant of Confrontation: A Study of Non-Submissive Religiosity in Rabbinic Literature (Hebrew), Bar Ilan University Press, 2019.
- The Enemy Within: Political Zionism and its Faithful Adversaries (Hebrew), Tel Aviv University Press, 2021.
- Qohelet: Searching for a Life Worth Living, Baylor University Press, 2023 (with Debra Band)..
- Dialogues of Reason: Science, Politics, Religion (The Dagmar Westberg Lectures 2020, with Responses by Julie E. Cooper, Lorraine Daston, Suzanne Last Stone, Matthias Lutz-Bachmann, and Christian Wiese), Echter Verlag, (forthcoming) 2024
References
- ^ "Prof. Menachem Fisch". Retrieved 2 June 2018.
- ^ "Menachem Fisch - Tel Aviv University - Academia.edu". telaviv.academia.edu. Retrieved 2 June 2018.
- ^ "Menachem Fisch, Author at Tablet Magazine". Tablet Magazine. Retrieved 2 June 2018.
- ^ "News". www.forschungskolleg-humanwissenschaften.de. Retrieved 2018-06-07.
- ^ "News". www.humboldt-foundation.de. Retrieved 2018-06-07.
- ^ Creatively Undecided. University of Chicago Press. Retrieved 2 June 2018.