Completed PhD Dissertations
PhD Dissertations:
| Advisor | Name of work | Name | Year | 
| Prof. Eva Jablonka Prof. Dan Zahavi 
 | Attending to Others, Attending with Others: Phenomenological, Developmental and Evolutionary Investigation of Social Attention 
 | Oren Bader | 2017 | 
| Prof. Leo Corry Prof. Thomas Ryckman, Stanford 
 | The causal structure of spacetime in general relativity 
 | Itzik Yosef | |
| Prof. Jose Brunner | Nationalbesitzstand and Wiedergutmachung: The Career of Two Combat Concepts of the German Bohemian/Sudeten German Discourse 
 | Iris Nachum | |
| Prof. Yossi Schwartz 
 | A Critical View of Popular Image-Aided Devotional Practices: The Book of Margery Kempe in Its Local Historical and Cultural Context 
 | Einat Klafter | |
| Prof. Jose Brunner | Weakness and Persistence: A History of the World Jewish Restitution Organization (WJRO) (1989–2010) 
 | Aharon Mor | |
| Prof. Adi Ophir | The Concrete Thing in Hegel's Philosophy | Shachar Kislev | 2016 | 
| Prof. Yossi Schwartz Prof. Daniel Dor | Karl Kraus: Language, Society and the Rise of the Media- Technology". 
 | Gal Hertz | 2015 | 
| Prof. Benjamin Arbel | A Tale of Three Thirsty Cities The Innovative Water Supply Systems of Toledo, London and Paris in the Second Half of the Sixteenth Century | Chaim Shulman | |
| Prof. Leo Corry | "One State, One Computer Building the WEIZAC Computer at the Weizmann Institute in the Mid-Fifties, the Decision and its Effects | Raya Leviathan 
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| Prof. Eva Jablonka | The Religious Ape: Attachment, Fervor, and the Evolution of Religion 
 
 | Yoval Laor 
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| Prof. Zeev Bechler | John Locke's Polemic with Jonas Proast Concerning Religious Toleration and the Roots of his Polemics with JjOHN Edwards and Edward Stillingfleet 
 | Yekutiel Shuham 
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| Prof. Eva Jablonka | The Explanatory Power of the 'Beautiful' in Scientific Explanations 
 | Shani Inbar 
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| Prof. Moshe Zuckerman | Adorno'S Theory of Experience. the Withering of Experience | Ben Fullman 
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| Prof. Moshe Zuckerman | Body of Knowledge-Embodied Philosophy in Gaga, Ohad Naharin's Movement Research 
 | Einav Katan 
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| Prof. Adi Ophir Prof. Anat Matar | The Animalization of the Political- the Lives, Deaths And Meat of Nonhuman Animals in Post-Heideggerian Political Thought 
 | Yoav Kenny 
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| Prof. Adi Ophir | Subjectivity, Corporeality, Privacy, Dwelling- Being At Home with New Automated Technologies 
 
 | Michal Rappaport Rotem 
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| Prof. Eva Jablonka Prof. James Lennox Prof. Allan Gotthelf | Concepts and Definitions in Science: Epistemic Roles and Referential Stability | Corinne Bloch | 2014 | 
| Prof. Menachem Fisch | The Conditions for Successful Critical Dialogue | Assaf Heler | |
| Prof. Shulamit Volkov Prof. Eva Jablonka | ‘Social-Mendelism’: The Effects of Mendel’s Theorems on the Formation of Human Sciences in Germany, 1900-1936 | Amir Teicher | |
| Prof. Gideon Freudenthal | The Status of Empirical Knowledge in Interspecific Ethics | Ariel Tsovel | 2013 
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| Prof. Eva Jablonka Dr. Ariel Knafo | Heritability, Variation and Classification: Towards a New Formalization of Biological Concepts | Omri Tal | |
| Prof. Jose Brunner Prof. Yair Auron | The Intellectual and Political Origins of the United Nation Convention for the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide 1933-1948 | Yehonatan Alsheh | |
| Prof. Moshe Zuckerman Dr. Orly Lubin | The Concept of Self Multilation in Radical Body Art : A Phlisophical Analysis | Hanna Freund Shartok | |
| Prof. Yossef Schwartz | The Discourse of Knowledge in the Faculty of Theology, Paris, 1220-1240 | Ayelet Even Ezra | 2012 | 
| Prof. Adi Ophir Prof. Yehuda Shenav | Borders Beyond Territory: Population Management through Border-Making and the Borders of Israel | Merav Amir | |
| Prof. Eva Jablonka | The First Evolutionary Synthesis: August Weismann and the Origins of Neo-Darwinism | Charlote Weisman | |
| Prof. Moshe Zuckerman | Suicide in Cultural Discourse: An Analysis of the Perception of Responsibility for the Act of Suicide in the Culture Texts | Vered Nadav | |
| Prof. Eva Jablonka | The Evolution of Quantity Estimation in the Animal Kingdom | Eran Shiferman | |
| Prof. Adi Ophir Prof. Tovi Fenster | The Movement Regime in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip: Historical, Technological and Sociologcal Aspects | Ariel Handel | 2011 | 
| Prof. Yossef Schwartz | Between Spinozism and Atheism The Impact of Spinoza's Philosopy on the German Fruhaufklarung: Johann Georg Wachter and Der Spinozismus im Judenthumb | Haim Mahlev | |
| Prof. Yossef Schwartz Prof. Peter S. Hawkins | Dante Alighieri the Secular Theologian: Reception, Authority and Subversion 1320-1483 | Leon Jacobowitz Efon | |
| Prof. Leo Corry Prof. Amiram Yehudai | The "bazaar model": The Evolution of the Linux Kernel-from Pure Volunteer Spirit to the Involvement of Large Corporations (1983-2001) | Oded Koren | |
| Prof. Moshe Zuckerman | The Concept of the Social Unconscious in Adorno's Aesthetic Theory | Nir Tidhar | |
| Prof. Jose Brunner | National Conflict and Mental Trauma: The Construction of National Traumatic Narratives by Israeli Mental Health Practitioners from Different Epistemic Cultures | Galia Plotkin Amrami | |
| Prof. Rivka Feldhay | Honre Fabri and the Concept of Impetus: A Bridge Between Paradigms | Michael Elazar | 2010 | 
| Prof. Eva Jablonka | Genes versus Genomes: The Role of Genome Organization in Evolution | Ehud Lamm | |
| Prof. Jose Brunner | From Shell Shock to Combat Reaction: The History of Paradigms, Transition in the Yom Kippur and Lebanon Wars as Expressed in the Therapists and the Mental Health System's Narrative | Zohar Rubinshtein | |
| Prof. Jose Brunner Prof. Eva Golander | Practicing Nursing in Israel, 1960-1995 - The Rationales That Create the professional Awareness of Nurses: On Cognitive Dissonance and its Applications | Sara Shachaf | |
| Prof. Jose Brunner | The Paradox of Psychoanalysis Madness in the USA, 1960-2000 | Orna Ophir Shacham | 2009 | 
| Prof. Adi Ophir | Witnesses in Action: Ethics and Politics in Humanitarism without Borders | Michal Givoni | |
| Dr. Ido Yavetz | Development and Production of Military Smokeless Gunpowder in France, 18841-1918 | Yoel Bergman | |
| Prof. Menachem Fisch | The Languages of Talmudic Discourse: A Philosophical Enquiry into the Amoraic Halacha | Ariel Furstenberg | |
| Prof. Rivka Feldhay Dr. Yuval Yonai | Difference, Passions and Power: British Adventurers in Virginia, 1607-1622 | Yaron Pactor | |
| Prof. Adi Ophir | Marxist Discourse and the Question of its Addressees | Anat Rimon Or | |
| Prof. Adi Ophir Prof. Anat Biletzki | The Political Body: The First Wave of Liberal Feminism | Hagar Kotef | |
| Prof. Yossi Schwartz | The Nature of Reality in the Philosophy of Scotus Erigena and of Shlomo Ibn Gevirol | Idit Shaked | |
| Prof. Rivka Feldhay Dr. Yuval Yonay | Mass Immigration, Economic Independence and Central Banking: David Horowitz and the Developmental Discourse in Israel, 1934-1966 | Arieh Krampf | 2008 | 
| Prof. Adi Ophir Prof. Anat Biletzki | A Post-structural Reading of a Logico-Mathematical Text | Roy Wagner | |
| Prof. Jose Brunner | Fantasmatic Fascination: Freud's Secret Committee from Bion's Group Relations Perspective | Dorit Szykierski | |
| Prof. Adi Ophir | Language and Moral: Jean-Francois Lyotard's "Differend" | Ronit Peleg | |
| Prof. Menachem Fisch | Thought Experiments in Science | Arieh Wurm | |
| Prof. Leo Corry Prof. Tony Levy | "The Epistle of the Number" by Isaac ben Solomon ben al-Ahdab (Sicily, 14th century). An Episode of Hebrew Algebra | Ilana Wartenberg | |
| Prof. Adi Ophir Dr. Orly Lubin | Death In the Cinema | Boaz Hagin | |
| Prof. Rivka Feldhay Dr. Michael Mach | Jacques Lacan and the Jewish-Christian Discourse | Yizhak Benyamini | 2007 | 
| Prof. Moshe Zuckerman | Freud: Origins and Development of his Ideas on Creative Thinking | Yoav Ygael | |
| Prof. Rivka Feldhay | The Discourse of Love in Firenze: 1460-1500 | Amos Edelheit | |
| Prof. Adi Ophir | Nietsche and the Legitimizing of the Anti-Christ | Abed Azzam | |
| Prof. Rivka Feldhay Dr. Shimon Naveh | The Development of the Idea of Military Intelligence in the American Domain | Amos Granit | 2006 | 
| Prof. Eva Jablonka Prof. Moshe Zuckerman | The Conceptualization of Scientific Medicine: Homeopathy in the USA, 1870-1930 | Nadav Davidovitch | |
| Prof. Eva Jablonka Prof. Moshe Zuckerman Prof. Eyal Naveh | The Sociology of Sociobiology | Batya Zelinger | |
| Prof. Avner Ben Amos Prof. Moshe Zuckerman | The School-Regiments: the Myth of the Homeland in The Franch Republican Left: 1879-1893 | Reuven Cohen | |
| Prof. Adi Ophir Prof. Jean Francois Curtain | Emanuel Levinas and the Phenomenology of Edmund Husserl | Smadar Bustan | 2005 | 
| Prof. Eva Jablonka | The Ontological and Epistemological Foundations of Developmental Biology | Yifat Gal Arad | |
| Prof. Menachem Fisch Prof. Yossef Agassi | The Adequate Limits of Manipulation | Sapir Hendleman | |
| Prof. Moshe Zuckerman | A critique of the concept of "West" in Israeli Art | Sara Hinski | |
| Prof. Adi Ophir Prof. Moshe Halbertal | The "Sotah" in The Tanai Literature | Ishay Rosen-Tzvi | |
| Prof. Eva Jablonka Prof. Anita Shapira | The Teaching and Research of Genetics at the Hebrew University (1935-1961) | Nurit Kirsh | 2004 | 
| Prof. Gideon Freudenthal | The Ethics of Bio-Medicine and the Market Ideology of Health | Miran Epstein | |
| Prof. Moshe Zuckerman | Adorno: Negative Dialectics, Concept and Meaning | Noa Gedi | |
| Prof. Menachem Fisch | Space Sailing: A Case Study in the Socio-Historical Discourse of Astronautics | Gideon Tolkovsky | 2003 | 
| Prof. Rivka Feldhay | Sammy Michael and the Problems of Constructing an "Oriental-Jew" Subject | Dolly Habib | |
| Dr. Ido Yavetz | The History of Piezoelectricity | Shaul Katzir | |
| Prof. Jose Brunner | The Subjective and the Objective: the Relationship Between Changes in Philosophical Thinking and the Development of Psychoanalytical Theory | Aner Govrin | 2002 | 
| Prof. Ron Barkai | Dreams, Medicine And Therapy In The Middle Ages – The Theory Of Dreams In Islamic And Jewish Culture | Hagar Smilanski | |
| Prof. Moshe Zuckerman | Hegemony and Counter-Hegemony in the Israeli Medical System | Daniel Filc | |
| Prof. Sabetai Unguru | The Concept of Knowledge and Syllogistic Logic: Aristotle's Posterior Analytics | Orna Harari-Eshel | 2001 | 
| Prof. Sabetai Unguru Prof. Rivka Feldhay | Subduing the Hostile Fortress of Doubts - The Renaissance Discourse of Vision and Kepler's New Science | Raz Dov Hen | |
| Prof. Yehuda Elkana | The Origins Of Microscopical Biology | Ohad Parnes | |
| Prof. Sabetai Unguru | A New Look at the Geometric Character of Hellenistic Mathematics: The Case of Apollonius | Michael Fried | 1999 | 
| Dr. Ido Yavetz Prof. Aron Shai | The Development of Military Technology in Palestine/Israel (1933-1967) | Alexander Bloch | |
| Prof. Zeev Bechler Dr. Eli Rozik-Rozen | Theatrical Possible Worlds | Irit Dgani-Raz | |
| Prof. Rivka Feldhay | Erasmus and More betwen the Republic of Letters and the Political World | Hanan Yoran | |
| Prof. Gideon Freudenthal Prof. Alexandre Mtraux | Images Of Knowledge In Developmental Psychology During The Period Of Institutionalisation In The United States,1920-1940 | Renana Lukas | |
| Prof. Yossi Mali | Johan Huizinga: His Life and Work - A Critical and Historical Study | Dror Levy | 1998 | 
| Prof. Amos Funkenstein Prof. Yehuda Elkana Prof. Gideon Freudenthal | Emile Durkheim as Founder of a Discipline: On an Image of Science at the Beginnings of Sociology in France | Snait Gissis | 1997 | 
| Prof. Moshe Zuckerman Dr. Gila Blas | On the Possibility of Critical Art in Israel (1970s & 1980s) | Ariela Azoulay | |
| Prof. Menachem Fisch | R. David Ben Solomon Gans And The Controversy Over Natural Science In Jewish Prague | Noah Efron | |
| Prof. Amos Funkenstein | The Representations of the "Middle Ages" in the National Jewish Historiography | Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin | |
| Prof. Zeev Bechler | A Novel Concept of Evolutionary Adaptation | Zippora Burstein | 1996 | 
| Prof. Yehuda Elkana | History of Arts and Learning in the 16th and 17th Centuries: From Vives to Wilkins and Back | Saggiue Cohen | |
| Prof. David Fishelson Prof. David Weissaert | The Roman Agricultural Economy according to Vergilius' Georgica | David Jacobi | 1995 | 
| Prof. Yehuda Elkana Prof. Gideon Freudenthal | Dualism Versus Materialism - Philosophical Solutions To The Mind-Brain Problem and the Scientific Research Program of the Human Brain | Gavriela Eilam | 1994 | 
| Prof. Zeev Bechler | A Defense of Rationalistic Ontology | Yuval Steinitz | |
| Prof. Amos Funkenstein | Pessimism and Utopia in the Thought of Max Horkheimer and Herbert Marcuse | Ilan Gur-Zeev | 1993 | 
| Prof. Zev Bechler Prof. Emmanuel Berman | Prolegomena to Psychoanalysis: Freud Researches 1892-1896 | Shaul Haymovitz | |
| Prof. Yehuda Elkana | Teleology And the Question Of Knowledge: L.J.Henderson – A Case Study | Iris Fry | |
| Prof. Yehuda Elkana | The Historical Evolution And Present Status Of The Realist World-View In 20th Century Phisical Science | Zvi Solow | |
| Prof. Sabetai Unguru Prof. Shmuel Rosset | The Origins of Category Theory as a Mathematical Discipline | Leo Corry | 1990 | 
| Prof. Yehuda Elkana | From Obscurity to Enigma: The Work of Oliver Heaviside. | Ido Yavetz | 1989 | 
| Prof. Amos Funkenstein Prof. Joseph Agassi | History of the Digital Computer, 1935 -1945 | Alex Arbel | |
| Prof. Shaul Friedlander | The Jews Of Zglambia During The Holocaust - 1944-1939 | Avihu Ronen | |
| Prof. Joseph Agassi Prof. L. J. Cohen | Antithetical Knowledge: William Whewell's Theory of Science, its Formation and Historiographical Implications | Menachem Fisch | 
 
               
    


