Menachem Fisch: The Rationality of Religious Dispute: 18 (Library of Contemporary Jewish Philosophers, 18) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004323562 ISBN 13: 9789004323568

Publisher: Brill, 2016

Synopsis

Menachem Fisch is the Joseph and Ceil Mazer Professor of History and Philosophy of Science, Director of the Center for Religious and Interreligious Studies, and former Chair of the Graduate School of Philosophy at Tel Aviv University. He is also the Senior Fellow of the Kogod Center for the Renewal of Jewish Thought at the Shalom Hartman Institute, Jerusalem. Trained in physics, philosophy, and the history and philosophy of science, Fisch has confronted epistemological questions and applied his answers to Jewish philosophy, integrating it into the larger discourse of rationality, normativity, religion, politics, and science. His work brings a creative combination of historical, philosophical, and critical insights to an analysis of Talmudic texts, thereby establishing a new and original understanding of rabbinic legal reasoning and religious commitment.

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Hava Tirosh-Samuelson is Professor of History, Irving and Miriam Lowe Professor of Modern Judaism, and Director of the Center for Jewish Studies at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona.

Aaron W. Hughes holds the Philip S. Bernstein Chair of Jewish Studies in the Department of Religion and Classics at the University of Rochester.

Edition details

• Publisher: Brill
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004323562
• ISBN 13: 9789004323568
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 248
• Editor: Tirosh-Samuelson Hava, Hughes Aaron W.