Silverman Professorship and Visiting Faculty
Visiting faculty, 2018:
- Dr. Margo Horn (Stanford University) teaching:
Visiting faculty, 2017:
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Prof. Maria Rentetzi (National Technical University of Athens, Greece) teaching: Gender and Science.
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Dr. Giulia Rispoli (Italy/ MPIWG Berlin) teaching: The Anthropocene Turn. Contexts and Narratives.
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Dr. Monica Colominas (Spain/ MPIWG Berlin) teaching: Convivencia and Religious Disputes in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Iberian.
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Dr. Fabien Grégis (France, Paris).
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Dr. Monika Wulz (Zurich/ Graz -ZGW).
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Prof. Elay Shech (Auburn University, Alabama).
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Dr. Martin Herrnstadt (Germany, Goethe University, Frankfurt).
The late Dr. Simon P. Silverman endowed a special Chair to enable the Institute to invite a well-known guest scholar every year. The Silverman Professor usually visits for a period of six weeks to teach and oversee research in areas not typically covered by our faculty.
The late Professor I. Bernard Cohen was the first Silverman Professor in 1984. Since then the Institute has benefited the visits of many distinguished guests, as indicated in the table below.
List of invited professors in the past for the Silverman Chair (ordered by year):
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Professor Ofer Gal (2015) Director of the Sydney Centre for the Foundations of Science, The University of Sidney |
Fear: From Epistemology to Ethics in the New Science |
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Prof. Matteo Valleriani (2014) Max Planck Institute, Berlin |
The Emergence of Science
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Prof. Istvan Bodnar (2013) Central European University and ELTE, Budapest |
Celestial movers and celestial motions in Aristotle and the ancient Aristotelian tradition |
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Prof. Jennifer Robertson (2013) University of Michigan |
Bio-Art International: Biotechnology, Genetic Engineering, and Contemporary Art |
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Prof. Tal Golan (2012) University of California San Diego |
Israeli Science in its political and cultural contexts |
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Prof. Wilhelm Schmidt-Bigemmann (2011) Free University, Berlin |
History of Philosophy and Humanities |
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Dr. Francois Charette (2006) Ludwig-Maximilian Universität, Munich |
Islamic Science |
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Prof. Staffan Müller-Wille (2004) Max Planck Institute, Berlin |
Classification in the Biological Sciences - 18th and 19th Century |
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Prof. Silvan Schweber (2003) Brandeis University |
History of 20th Century Physics |
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Prof. Salvatore Camporeale (2002) Harvard Renaissance Center, I Tatti |
Renaissance Studies |
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Prof. Michael Hagner (2001) Max Planck Institute, Berlin |
Cultural History of Medicine |
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Dr. Andrew Mendelsohn (2000) Max Planck Institute, Berlin |
History of 19th and 20th Century Medicine |
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Prof. Barbara Tuchanska (1996) University of Lodz |
Hermeneutical Ontology of Science |
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Prof. Henry Krips (1995) University of Pittsburgh |
Myth, Ideology and Science |
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Prof. Jürgen Renn (1993) Max Planck Institute, Berlin |
Galileo and Einstein |
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Prof. Simon Schaffer (1986) Cambridge University |
Sociology of Science |
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Prof. I. Bernard Cohen (1984) Harvard University |
Newton Studies |
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Prof. Sally Humphreys University of Michigan |
Historical Anthropology of Knowledge |
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Prof. Lorenz Kruger Free University of Berlin |
Philosophy of Science |
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Prof. David C. Lindberg University of Wisconsin |
Medieval Science |
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Prof. J.E. McGuire University of Pennsylvania |
Rhetorics and Science |
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Dr. Alexandre Metraux Max Planck Institute, Berlin |
History of Psychology |
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Dr. Enzo Neppi Yale University |
Philosophy of Literature and Language |
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Prof. Steven Shapin University of Edinburgh/ University of California, San Diego |
Sociology of Science |
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Prof. Thomas P. Hughes University of Pennsylvania |
History of Technology |
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Prof. Edith Sylla University of North Carolina |
Medieval Science and Theology |
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