International Workshop
The International Workshop is held annually in cooperation with the Edelstein Center of the Hebrew University and the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute.
During the workshop, international and Israeli scholars meet for four days (two in Tel Aviv and two in Jerusalem) to deliver papers and discuss ideas related to a selected central topic. The dynamic and prolific interaction that is created has made the international workshop a very successful venue. Junior scholars at the beginning of their careers are also invited to lecture and are given the opportunity to rub shoulders with some of the leading names in the field. Students from all universities and departments are welcomed.
Past workshops were devoted to several topics that reflect the broad spectrum of intellectual fields of interest pursued at the Institute (as the following list illustrates). In various cases, some of the most salient talks given at the workshops were further elaborated and collected into topical issues of Science in Context, as can be seen in the following list:
Published Proceedings |
Workshop Name |
Year |
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2016 |
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Landscapes of Collectivity in the Life Sciences - (forthcoming from MIT Press) Edited by Snait Gissis, Ehud Lamm, and Ayelet Shavit. |
2015 |
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The Aims of Brain Research: Scientific and Philosophical Perspectives |
2014 |
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Intuition and Reason: On the Work of Charles Parsons
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2013 |
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Between Biology and Physics: Reduction, Emergence and Complexity |
2012 |
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Mathematical Knowledge and its Applications |
2011 |
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History and Philosophy of Economics |
2010 |
From Subtle Fluids to Molecular Biology Edited by Snait B. Gissis and Eva Jablonka |
Transformations of Lamarckism: 200 Years to the Philosophie Zoologique |
2009 |
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The Probable and the Improbable: The Meaning and Role of Probability in Physics |
2008 |
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The Origins and Nature of Computation |
2006 |
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Leibniz: What Kind of Rationalist? |
2005 |
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Picture and Text. Visualization and Knowledge in the Evolution of Culture |
2004 |
SiC Vol. 16 (3), 2003, Vol. 17 (1), 2004 |
History of Mathematics in the Last 25 Years - New Departures, New Questions, New Ideas |
2001 |
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The Conceptual Foundations of Statistical Mechanics |
2000 |
SiC Vol. 15 (1), 2002 |
Science and Secularization |
1999 |
SiC Vol. 12 (4), 1999 |
Ernst Cassirer - Symbol, Science and Culture |
1998 |
SiC Vol. 11 (3-4), 1998 |
Eugenic Thought and Practice - A Reappraisal Towards the 21st Century |
1997 |
SiC Vol. 10 (1), 1997 |
Models of Critique in the Sciences, Society and the Arts |
1996 |
SiC Vol. 10 (4), 1997 |
Jewish Responses to Early Modern Science |
1995 |
SiC Vol. 9 (2), 1996 |
Images of Knowledge - Two Tier Thinking and Higher Education |
1994 |
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Medicine as a Cultural System |
1993 |
SiC Vol. 7 (1), 1994 |
Narrative Patterns in Scientific Disciplines |
1992 |
SiC Vol. 8 (2), 1995
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Technological Pessimism, Modern Societies and their Environments |
1991 |
SiC Vol. 6 (1), 1993 |
Einstein in Context |
1990 |
SiC Vol. 4 (1), 1991 |
The Place of Knowledge - The Spatial Settings |
1989 |
SiC Vol. 3 (1), 1989 |
Fifty Years of the Merton Thesis |
1988 |
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300 Years of the Principia - Realism Then and Now |
1987 |
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The Quantification of Scientific Concepts in its Social Context |
1986 |
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Menasseh Ben Israel and his World |
1985 |