Completed PhD Dissertations
PhD Dissertations:
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			 Advisor  | 
			
			 Name of work  | 
			
			 Name  | 
			
			 Year  | 
		
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			 Prof. Eva Jablonka Prof. Dan Zahavi 
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			 Attending to Others, Attending with Others: Phenomenological, Developmental and Evolutionary Investigation of Social Attention 
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			 Oren Bader  | 
			
			 2017  | 
		
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			 Prof. Leo Corry Prof. Thomas Ryckman, Stanford 
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			 The causal structure of spacetime in general relativity 
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			 Itzik Yosef  | 
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			 Prof. Jose Brunner  | 
			
			 Nationalbesitzstand and Wiedergutmachung: The Career of Two Combat Concepts of the German Bohemian/Sudeten German Discourse 
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			 Iris Nachum  | 
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			 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 
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			 Einat Klafter  | 
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			 Prof. Jose Brunner  | 
			
			 Weakness and Persistence: A History of the World Jewish Restitution Organization (WJRO) (1989–2010) 
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			 Aharon Mor  | 
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			 Prof. Adi Ophir  | 
			
			 The Concrete Thing in Hegel's Philosophy  | 
			
			 Shachar Kislev  | 
			
			 2016  | 
		
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			 Prof. Yossi Schwartz Prof. Daniel Dor  | 
			
			 Karl Kraus: Language, Society and the Rise of the Media- Technology". 
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			 Gal Hertz  | 
			
			 2015  | 
		
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			 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  | 
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			 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 
 
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			 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 
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			 Yekutiel Shuham 
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			 Prof. Eva Jablonka  | 
			
			 The Explanatory Power of the 'Beautiful' in Scientific Explanations 
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			 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 
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			 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 
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			 Yoav Kenny 
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			 Prof. Adi Ophir  | 
			
			 Subjectivity, Corporeality, Privacy, Dwelling- Being At Home with New Automated Technologies 
 
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			 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  | 
		
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			 Prof. Menachem Fisch  | 
			
			 The Conditions for Successful Critical Dialogue  | 
			
			 Assaf Heler  | 
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			 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  | 
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			 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  | 
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			 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  | 
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			 Prof. Moshe Zuckerman Dr. Orly Lubin  | 
			
			 The Concept of Self Multilation in Radical Body Art : A Phlisophical Analysis  | 
			
			 Hanna Freund Shartok  | 
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			 Prof. Yossef Schwartz  | 
			
			 The Discourse of Knowledge in the Faculty of Theology, Paris, 1220-1240  | 
			
			 Ayelet Even Ezra  | 
			
			 2012  | 
		
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			 Prof. Adi Ophir Prof. Yehuda Shenav  | 
			
			 Borders Beyond Territory: Population Management through Border-Making and the Borders of Israel  | 
			
			 Merav Amir  | 
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			 Prof. Eva Jablonka  | 
			
			 The First Evolutionary Synthesis: August Weismann and the Origins of Neo-Darwinism  | 
			
			 Charlote Weisman  | 
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			 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  | 
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			 Prof. Eva Jablonka  | 
			
			 The Evolution of Quantity Estimation in the Animal Kingdom  | 
			
			 Eran Shiferman  | 
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			 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  | 
		
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			 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  | 
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			 Prof. Yossef Schwartz Prof. Peter S. Hawkins  | 
			
			 Dante Alighieri the Secular Theologian: Reception, Authority and Subversion 1320-1483  | 
			
			 Leon Jacobowitz Efon  | 
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			 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  | 
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			 Prof. Moshe Zuckerman  | 
			
			 The Concept of the Social Unconscious in Adorno's Aesthetic Theory  | 
			
			 Nir Tidhar  | 
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			 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  | 
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			 Prof. Rivka Feldhay  | 
			
			 Honre Fabri and the Concept of Impetus: A Bridge Between Paradigms  | 
			
			 Michael Elazar  | 
			
			 2010  | 
		
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			 Prof. Eva Jablonka  | 
			
			 Genes versus Genomes: The Role of Genome Organization in Evolution  | 
			
			 Ehud Lamm  | 
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			 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  | 
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			 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  | 
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			 Prof. Jose Brunner  | 
			
			 The Paradox of Psychoanalysis Madness in the USA, 1960-2000  | 
			
			 Orna Ophir Shacham  | 
			
			 2009  | 
		
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			 Prof. Adi Ophir  | 
			
			 Witnesses in Action: Ethics and Politics in Humanitarism without Borders  | 
			
			 Michal Givoni  | 
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			 Dr. Ido Yavetz  | 
			
			 Development and Production of Military Smokeless Gunpowder in France, 18841-1918  | 
			
			 Yoel Bergman  | 
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			 Prof. Menachem Fisch  | 
			
			 The Languages of Talmudic Discourse: A Philosophical Enquiry into the Amoraic Halacha  | 
			
			 Ariel Furstenberg  | 
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			 Prof. Rivka Feldhay Dr. Yuval Yonai  | 
			
			 Difference, Passions and Power: British Adventurers in Virginia, 1607-1622  | 
			
			 Yaron Pactor  | 
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			 Prof. Adi Ophir  | 
			
			 Marxist Discourse and the Question of its Addressees  | 
			
			 Anat Rimon Or  | 
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			 Prof. Adi Ophir Prof. Anat Biletzki  | 
			
			 The Political Body: The First Wave of Liberal Feminism  | 
			
			 Hagar Kotef  | 
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			 Prof. Yossi Schwartz  | 
			
			 The Nature of Reality in the Philosophy of Scotus Erigena and of Shlomo Ibn Gevirol  | 
			
			 Idit Shaked  | 
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			 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  | 
		
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			 Prof. Adi Ophir Prof. Anat Biletzki  | 
			
			 A Post-structural Reading of a Logico-Mathematical Text  | 
			
			 Roy Wagner  | 
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			 Prof. Jose Brunner  | 
			
			 Fantasmatic Fascination: Freud's Secret Committee from Bion's Group Relations Perspective  | 
			
			 Dorit Szykierski  | 
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			 Prof. Adi Ophir  | 
			
			 Language and Moral: Jean-Francois Lyotard's "Differend"  | 
			
			 Ronit Peleg  | 
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			 Prof. Menachem Fisch  | 
			
			 Thought Experiments in Science  | 
			
			 Arieh Wurm  | 
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			 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  | 
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			 Prof. Adi Ophir Dr. Orly Lubin  | 
			
			 Death In the Cinema  | 
			
			 Boaz Hagin  | 
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			 Prof. Rivka Feldhay Dr. Michael Mach  | 
			
			 Jacques Lacan and the Jewish-Christian Discourse  | 
			
			 Yizhak Benyamini  | 
			
			 2007  | 
		
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			 Prof. Moshe Zuckerman  | 
			
			 Freud: Origins and Development of his Ideas on Creative Thinking  | 
			
			 Yoav Ygael  | 
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			 Prof. Rivka Feldhay  | 
			
			 The Discourse of Love in Firenze: 1460-1500  | 
			
			 Amos Edelheit  | 
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			 Prof. Adi Ophir  | 
			
			 Nietsche and the Legitimizing of the Anti-Christ  | 
			
			 Abed Azzam  | 
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			 Prof. Rivka Feldhay Dr. Shimon Naveh  | 
			
			 The Development of the Idea of Military Intelligence in the American Domain  | 
			
			 Amos Granit  | 
			
			 2006  | 
		
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			 Prof. Eva Jablonka Prof. Moshe Zuckerman  | 
			
			 The Conceptualization of Scientific Medicine: Homeopathy in the USA, 1870-1930  | 
			
			 Nadav Davidovitch  | 
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			 Prof. Eva Jablonka Prof. Moshe Zuckerman Prof. Eyal Naveh  | 
			
			 The Sociology of Sociobiology  | 
			
			 Batya Zelinger  | 
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			 Prof. Avner Ben Amos Prof. Moshe Zuckerman  | 
			
			 The School-Regiments: the Myth of the Homeland in The Franch Republican Left: 1879-1893  | 
			
			 Reuven Cohen  | 
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			 Prof. Adi Ophir Prof. Jean Francois Curtain  | 
			
			 Emanuel Levinas and the Phenomenology of Edmund Husserl  | 
			
			 Smadar Bustan  | 
			
			 2005  | 
		
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			 Prof. Eva Jablonka  | 
			
			 The Ontological and Epistemological Foundations of Developmental Biology  | 
			
			 Yifat Gal Arad  | 
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			 Prof. Menachem Fisch Prof. Yossef Agassi  | 
			
			 The Adequate Limits of Manipulation  | 
			
			 Sapir Hendleman  | 
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			 Prof. Moshe Zuckerman  | 
			
			 A critique of the concept of "West" in Israeli Art  | 
			
			 Sara Hinski  | 
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			 Prof. Adi Ophir Prof. Moshe Halbertal  | 
			
			 The "Sotah" in The Tanai Literature  | 
			
			 Ishay Rosen-Tzvi  | 
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			 Prof. Eva Jablonka Prof. Anita Shapira  | 
			
			 The Teaching and Research of Genetics at the Hebrew University (1935-1961)  | 
			
			 Nurit Kirsh  | 
			
			 2004  | 
		
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			 Prof. Gideon Freudenthal  | 
			
			 The Ethics of Bio-Medicine and the Market Ideology of Health  | 
			
			 Miran Epstein  | 
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			 Prof. Moshe Zuckerman  | 
			
			 Adorno: Negative Dialectics, Concept and Meaning  | 
			
			 Noa Gedi  | 
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			 Prof. Menachem Fisch  | 
			
			 Space Sailing: A Case Study in the Socio-Historical Discourse of Astronautics  | 
			
			 Gideon Tolkovsky  | 
			
			 2003  | 
		
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			 Prof. Rivka Feldhay  | 
			
			 Sammy Michael and the Problems of Constructing an "Oriental-Jew" Subject  | 
			
			 Dolly Habib  | 
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			 Dr. Ido Yavetz  | 
			
			 The History of Piezoelectricity  | 
			
			 Shaul Katzir  | 
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			 Prof. Jose Brunner  | 
			
			 The Subjective and the Objective: the Relationship Between Changes in Philosophical Thinking and the Development of Psychoanalytical Theory  | 
			
			 Aner Govrin  | 
			
			 2002  | 
		
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			 Prof. Ron Barkai  | 
			
			 Dreams, Medicine And Therapy In The Middle Ages – The Theory Of Dreams In Islamic And Jewish Culture  | 
			
			 Hagar Smilanski  | 
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			 Prof. Moshe Zuckerman  | 
			
			 Hegemony and Counter-Hegemony in the Israeli Medical System  | 
			
			 Daniel Filc  | 
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			 Prof. Sabetai Unguru  | 
			
			 The Concept of Knowledge and Syllogistic Logic: Aristotle's Posterior Analytics  | 
			
			 Orna Harari-Eshel  | 
			
			 2001  | 
		
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			 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  | 
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			 Prof. Yehuda Elkana  | 
			
			 The Origins Of Microscopical Biology  | 
			
			 Ohad Parnes  | 
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			 Prof. Sabetai Unguru  | 
			
			 A New Look at the Geometric Character of Hellenistic Mathematics: The Case of Apollonius  | 
			
			 Michael Fried  | 
			
			 1999  | 
		
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			 Dr. Ido Yavetz Prof. Aron Shai  | 
			
			 The Development of Military Technology in Palestine/Israel (1933-1967)  | 
			
			 Alexander Bloch  | 
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			 Prof. Zeev Bechler Dr. Eli Rozik-Rozen  | 
			
			 Theatrical Possible Worlds  | 
			
			 Irit Dgani-Raz  | 
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			 Prof. Rivka Feldhay  | 
			
			 Erasmus and More betwen the Republic of Letters and the Political World  | 
			
			 Hanan Yoran  | 
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			 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  | 
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			 Prof. Yossi Mali  | 
			
			 Johan Huizinga: His Life and Work - A Critical and Historical Study  | 
			
			 Dror Levy  | 
			
			 1998  | 
		
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			 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  | 
		
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			 Prof. Moshe Zuckerman Dr. Gila Blas  | 
			
			 On the Possibility of Critical Art in Israel (1970s & 1980s)  | 
			
			 Ariela Azoulay  | 
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			 Prof. Menachem Fisch  | 
			
			 R. David Ben Solomon Gans And The Controversy Over Natural Science In Jewish Prague  | 
			
			 Noah Efron  | 
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			 Prof. Amos Funkenstein  | 
			
			 The Representations of the "Middle Ages" in the National Jewish Historiography  | 
			
			 Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin  | 
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			 Prof. Zeev Bechler  | 
			
			 A Novel Concept of Evolutionary Adaptation  | 
			
			 Zippora Burstein  | 
			
			 1996  | 
		
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			 Prof. Yehuda Elkana  | 
			
			 History of Arts and Learning in the 16th and 17th Centuries: From Vives to Wilkins and Back  | 
			
			 Saggiue Cohen  | 
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			 Prof. David Fishelson Prof. David Weissaert  | 
			
			 The Roman Agricultural Economy according to Vergilius' Georgica  | 
			
			 David Jacobi  | 
			
			 1995  | 
		
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			 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  | 
		
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			 Prof. Zeev Bechler  | 
			
			 A Defense of Rationalistic Ontology  | 
			
			 Yuval Steinitz  | 
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			 Prof. Amos Funkenstein  | 
			
			 Pessimism and Utopia in the Thought of Max Horkheimer and Herbert Marcuse  | 
			
			 Ilan Gur-Zeev  | 
			
			 1993  | 
		
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			 Prof. Zev Bechler Prof. Emmanuel Berman  | 
			
			 Prolegomena to Psychoanalysis: Freud Researches 1892-1896  | 
			
			 Shaul Haymovitz  | 
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			 Prof. Yehuda Elkana  | 
			
			 Teleology And the Question Of Knowledge: L.J.Henderson – A Case Study  | 
			
			 Iris Fry  | 
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			 Prof. Yehuda Elkana  | 
			
			 The Historical Evolution And Present Status Of The Realist World-View In 20th Century Phisical Science  | 
			
			 Zvi Solow  | 
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			 Prof. Sabetai Unguru Prof. Shmuel Rosset  | 
			
			 The Origins of Category Theory as a Mathematical Discipline  | 
			
			 Leo Corry  | 
			
			 1990  | 
		
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			 Prof. Yehuda Elkana  | 
			
			 From Obscurity to Enigma: The Work of Oliver Heaviside.  | 
			
			 Ido Yavetz  | 
			
			 1989  | 
		
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			 Prof. Amos Funkenstein Prof. Joseph Agassi  | 
			
			 History of the Digital Computer, 1935 -1945  | 
			
			 Alex Arbel  | 
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			 Prof. Shaul Friedlander  | 
			
			 The Jews Of Zglambia During The Holocaust - 1944-1939  | 
			
			 Avihu Ronen  | 
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			 Prof. Joseph Agassi Prof. L. J. Cohen  | 
			
			 Antithetical Knowledge: William Whewell's Theory of Science, its Formation and Historiographical Implications  | 
			
			 Menachem Fisch  | 
		
              


