Lecture on Skepticism in Islamic Thought

Tomorrow, 9 May 2023, at 18:00, at the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies (Hamburg Universität), Nadja Germann (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg) will talk about “Before al-Ghazālī: Scepticism and Doubt in Early Islamic Thought.” More information here.

Lecture on Skepticism and Postmodernism

On May 2nd, at 18:00, David Myers (UCLA) will talk about “Scepticism, Postmodernism, and Modern Jewish Historiography” at the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies (Hamburg Universität). More information can be found here.

Maimonides Lecture on Skepticism

The next Maimonides Lecture on Scepticism will take place on February 16th at 18:00 (Hamburg time). Ben Sommer (Jewish Theological Seminary, New York) will talk about “Intentional Ambiguity in the Pentateuch’s Revelation Narratives: Doubt as a Religious Value in the Lawgiving in Exodus.”  The lecture will be held online. You must register by sending an email to maimonides-centre@uni-hamburg.de.

Maimonides Lecture on Skepticism

The next Maimonides Lecture on Skepticism will take place online on 10 January 2022, at 18:00 (local time). Dana Lloyd (Villanova University) will talk about “Religious Freedom and Land Rights: On Legal Language and Ethical Scepticism.” Complete information can be found here. For registration, send an email to maimonides-centre@uni-hamburg.de.

MCAS's Annual Lecture

The Annual Lecture of the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies (Universität Hamburg) will take place on 26 October 2021, at 18:00 (local time). Vivian Liska (Universiteit Antwerpen) will present the paper “Holy Doubts: Language Scepticism in German-Jewish Modernism.” You'll find complete information here.

Lecture on Maimon

As part of the Maimonides Lectures on Scepticism, on July 5, 2021, at 18:00 CEST, Jelscha Schmid (Basel) will give the lecture “Beyond Scepticism—Maimon’s Rational Dogmatism and the Method of Fictions.” More information can be found here.

You can join the meeting via Zoom: here. Meeting-ID: 983 8297 8498. Passcode: 33776553.

Jewish Andalusian Freethinking

On December 1st, Sarah Stroumsa (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) will give the online lecture “The Voice of Written Texts and the Myth of Jewish Andalusian Freethinking” as part of the Maimonides Lectures on Scepticism. For more information, go here.

Annual Lecture at MCAS

On October 27th, Gianni Paganini (Università del Piemonte Orientale) will give, via zoom, the annual lecture at the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies (Universität Hamburg). He will talk about “Facts, Fictions, and Hypotheses: Hume’s Scepticism and Newton’s Method in the Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion”. For more information, go here.

Lecture at MCAS

On July 9, 2019, at the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies (Hamburg), Nadja El Kassar (ETH Zürich) will give the lecture “How to Deal with Ignorance? Some Historical Suggestions.” For more information, click here.

Lecture Series on Skepticism and Tolerance

The Institute for Jewish Philosophy and Religion at the University of Hamburg, in cooperation with the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies, organizes a lecture series on “Skepsis and Toleranz: Moses Mendelssohn, Salomon Maimon und die jüdische Aufklärungsphilosophie”. For the complete program, go here.

Annual Lecture at MCAS

The Annual Lecture at the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies (Hamburg University) will be given by Julie Klein (Villanova University) on October 30. The lecture's title is “Scepticism in Spinoza and the Project of Critique”. For more information, click here.

Three Lectures on Skepticism

Next May, there will be a series of three lectures on skepticism (“Conoscenza, Plausibilità, Scetticismo: Tre Lezione tra Ricostruzione Storica e Riflessione Teorica”) at the Sapienza Università di Roma, Villa Mirafiori, Via Carlo Fea 2, room XI “M. M. Olivetti”.

May 21, 12.30-14.30: Carlo Cellucci, “Vero e plausibile”.

May 23, 14.30-16.30: Anna Maria Ioppolo, “Arcesilao nella storia dell’Accademia di Cicerone”.

May 28, 12.30-14.30: Emidio Spinelli, “Scettici differenti: Pirroniani contro Accademici”.

Lecture on Jewish Skepticism

Giuseppe Veltri (Hamburg) will give the lecture “Negotiating the Principle of (Non)-Contradiction: Johann Frischmuth (1619-1687) on the Rabbinic Sceptic Dialectic” both at Johns Hopkins University (October 24th) and at Princeton University (October 25th). For more information, click here and here, respectively.

Lecture on Ancient Skepticism

On October 16th, Giuseppe Veltri (Hamburg) will give the lecture, “Ancient Skepticism: Strategies of a Philosophical Movement,” at the American University in Bulgaria. You can find more information here.

Lecture on Arcesilaus

Tomorrow evening, Casey Perin (UC Irvine) will give the lecture "Making Sense of Arcesilaus" at Berkeley. For more information, go here.

Lecture on Sextus

Next Wednesday, at 6 pm, Emidio Spinelli (University of Rome "La Sapienza") will give the lecture "Sextus' Discussion of the Notion of Place (PH III 119-35)" at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin/Topoi Netzwerk (Hannoversche Strasse 6).