ד"ר גדי צ'רלס וובר:
Medieval Jewish Philosophy; History of Science; Hebrew Philosophical Terminology; Christian Hebraism; Maimonides; Jacob Anatoli; Joseph Ibn Kaspi; Leibniz; Saadia Gaon.
פילוסופיה יהודית של ימי הביניים; תולדות המדעים; מינוח פילוסופי עברי; הבראיזם נוצרי; רמב''ם; יעקב אנטולי; יוסף אבן כספי; לייבניץ; סעדיה גאון.
קורות חיים
Post-doctoral Fellow, 2019 – Present
Department of Jewish Philosophy
Bar-Ilan University
Ramat Gan, Israel
Research Associate, 2014-2016
PESHAT in Context
Hebrew University (in cooperation with the University of Hamburg)
Jerusalem, Israel
Education:
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
PhD in Jewish Philosophy, 2019
Dissertation: "Studies on R. Yaaqov Anatoli's Malmad Ha-Talmidim"
Supervisor: Caterina Rigo
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
MA in Jewish Philosophy (magna cum laude), 2009
Thesis: "The Book of Job and the Typology of Opinions on Providence in the Guide of the Perplexed"
Supervisor: Caterina Rigo
St. John's College, Annapolis, Maryland
BA in Liberal Arts (Honors for Public Defense of Senior Paper), 1995
Topic: "Altruism and the Dream of the Great Man in War and Peace"
Supervisors: Leo Raditsa and William Pastille
Honors/Awards:
Aharoni Abba and Rachel Prize for Academic Excellence; 2011 and 2014
Joseph C. Shenker Scholarship; 2012-2015
Arieh Lubin Prize; 2012
מחקר
Projects:
2023-present: Hebrew edition and English translation of Jacob Anatoli's Goad of the Disciples (Malmad ha-Talmidim) for Gross Family Library and Oxford University Press
2019-2022: "Hebrew Traditions of Aristotelian Dialectics" Israel Science Foundation Project #2181/19
2014-2016: PESHAT in Context (Philosophic and Scientific Hebrew Terminology)
קורסים
"The Philosophy of Joseph Ibn Kaspi," [English]. Bar-Ilan University, The Department of Jewish Philosophy, Spring Semester 2025.
"Jacob Anatoli's Malmad ha-Talmidim," [Hebrew]. Bar-Ilan University, The Department of Jewish Philosophy, Fall Semester 2024.
"Advanced Readings in the Guide of the Perplexed," [Hebrew]. Bar-Ilan University, The Department of Jewish Philosophy, Spring Semester 2024.
"Advanced Readings in the Guide of the Perplexed," [English]. Bar-Ilan University, The Department of Jewish Philosophy, Fall Semester 2023.
"Two Christian Hebraist Philosophers: John Locke and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz," [English]. Bar-Ilan University, The Department of Jewish Philosophy (International MA program), Spring Semester 2023.
"The Jewish Scientific Revolution," [Hebrew]. Bar-Ilan University, The Department of Jewish Philosophy, Fall Semester 2022.
"Critique and Defense: Philosophical Approaches to Rationality," [English]. Co-taught with Prof. Steven Harvey at Bar-Ilan University, The Department of Jewish Philosophy (International MA program), Spring Semester 2022.
"The Philosophy of Moses Narboni," [Hebrew]. Bar-Ilan University, The Department of Jewish Philosophy, Spring Semester 2022.
"Muhammad al-Tabrīzī's Commentary on Maimonides's 25 Premises," [Hebrew]. Bar-Ilan University, The Department of Jewish Philosophy, Fall Semester 2021.
"From Euclid to Gersonides," [Hebrew]. Bar-Ilan University, The Department of Jewish Philosophy, Spring Semester 2021.
"The Thought and Commentary of Joseph Ibn Kaspi," [Hebrew]. Bar-Ilan University, The Department of Jewish Philosophy, Fall Semester 2020.
"Leibniz's Commentary on the Guide of the Perplexed," [Hebrew]. Bar-Ilan University, The Department of Jewish Philosophy, Spring Semester 2020.
פירסומים
Articles:
"The City as a Metaphor in Jacob Anatoli's Malmad ha-Talmidim," [forthcoming].
"Scepticism in the Thought of Jacob Anatoli," in Giuseppe Veltri (ed.), Encyclopedia of Scepticism and Jewish Tradition [to be published with Brill].
"The Manuscript Tradition of ʾŌmanūt ha-Nīṣūaḥ, the Medieval Hebrew Translation of the Beginning of Al-Fārābī's Kitāb al-Jadal ("Book of Dialectic"), mahadurot.com (Sept. 2022).
"Remarks on an Ambiguous Geometric Term in Saadya Gaon's Book of Beliefs and Opinions: šakl ṣanawbari / ṣūrah iṣṭrūbōlit," in Reimund Leicht and Giuseppe Veltri (eds.), Studies in the Formation of Medieval Hebrew Philosophical Terminology (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2020), pp. 222-250.
"Maimonides and the Epicurean Position on Providence," Review of Metaphysics 68:3 (March 2015): 545-572.
"The Esoteric Character of Jacob Anatoli's Malmad ha-Talmidim," in Alessandro Musco, et al. (eds.), Universality of Reason, Plurality of Philosophies, proceedings of the 12th SIEPM International Congress (Palermo: Officina di Studi Medievali, 2012), pp. 269-280.
Critical editions:
Al-Fārābī, The Art of Dialectic; anonymous Hebrew translation (Hebrew Traditions of Aristotelian Dialectics; co-edited with Yehuda Halper), mahadurot.com 2021.
Translations:
Jacob Anatoli, Malmad ha-Talmidim (Goad of the Disciples), translation with Hebrew edition [in progress; to be published with Oxford University Press].
Ruth Gavison, “Reflections on the Meaning and Justification of ‘Jewish’ in the Expression ‘a Jewish and Democratic State,’” in Fania Oz-Salzberger (ed.), The Israeli Nation State: Political, Constitutional and Cultural Aspects and Challenges (Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2014).
Ruth Gavison (ed.), The Two-State Solution: The UN Partition Resolution of Palestine: Analysis and Sources (New York: Bloomsbury, 2013).
Ruth Gavison, 60 Years of the Law of Return: History, Ideology, Justification (Jerusalem: Metzilah Center, 2010).
תאריך עדכון אחרון : 12/12/2024
