Completed PhD Dissertations
PhD Dissertations:
Advisor |
Name of work |
Name |
Year |
Prof. Eva Jablonka Prof. Dan Zahavi
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Attending to Others, Attending with Others: Phenomenological, Developmental and Evolutionary Investigation of Social Attention
|
Oren Bader |
2017 |
Prof. Leo Corry Prof. Thomas Ryckman, Stanford
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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
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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
|
|
Prof. Eva Jablonka |
The Religious Ape: Attachment, Fervor, and the Evolution of Religion
|
Yoval Laor
|
|
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
|
|
Prof. Eva Jablonka |
The Explanatory Power of the 'Beautiful' in Scientific Explanations
|
Shani Inbar
|
|
Prof. Moshe Zuckerman |
Adorno'S Theory of Experience. the Withering of Experience |
Ben Fullman
|
|
Prof. Moshe Zuckerman |
Body of Knowledge-Embodied Philosophy in Gaga, Ohad Naharin's Movement Research
|
Einav Katan
|
|
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
|
|
Prof. Adi Ophir |
Subjectivity, Corporeality, Privacy, Dwelling- Being At Home with New Automated Technologies
|
Michal Rappaport Rotem
|
|
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
|
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 |