Menachem Fisch

Menachem Fisch
Fisch at Notre Dame, April 2017
Born (1948-07-30) July 30, 1948
Leeds, ENgland
Alma mater Tel Aviv University
Queen's College, Oxford
Main interests
 philosophy of science, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, rationality, normativity, and Jewish philosophy

Menachem Fisch is an Israeli philosopher, and the Joseph and Ceil Mazer Professor Emeritus of History and Philosophy of Science, and Director of the Center for Religious and Interreligious Studies at Tel Aviv University, and Senior Fellow of the Goethe University Frankfurt's Forschungskolleg Humanwisseschaften.[1][2][3]

He was awarded the Humboldt Research Prize by the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung in October 2016,[4] and in February 2017 an honorary doctorate in religious philosophy by the Goethe University, Frankfurt in July 2017.[5]

He has published widely on the history of 19th century British science and mathematics, on confirmation theory and rationality, on the theology of the talmudic literature, and the philosophy of talmudic legal reasoning. His current work explores the limits of normative self-criticism, the Talmud's dispute of religiosity, the possibilities of articulating a pluralist political philosophy from within the assumptions of halakhic Judaism, and the historiography of scientific framework transitions.

A volume dedicated to his work, entitled Menachem Fisch: The Rationality of Religious Dispute, was as Vol. 18 of the Library of Contemporary Jewish Philosophers, (eds. H. Samuelson-Tiroshi and A. W. Hughes), (Brill, 2016).

Publications

Books

  • William Whewell Philosopher of Science, Oxford, 1991
  • William Whewell: A Composite Portrait, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1991 (edited with S.J. Schaffer)
  • To Know Wisdom - Science, Rationality and Torah-study, (Hebrew), Tel Aviv, Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 1994
  • Rational Rabbis: Science and Talmudic Culture, Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1997
  • The View from Within: Normativity and the Limits of Self-Criticism, University of Notre Dame Press, 2011 (with Y. Benbaji)
  • Creatively Undecided: Toward a History and Philosophy of Scientific Agency, The University of Chicago Press, 2017[6]
  • The Rabbis’ Dispute of Religiosity: A Study of Talmudic Confrontational Theology (Hebrew), Ramat Gan, Bar Ilan University Press, forthcoming 2019.

References

  1. ↑ "Prof. Menachem Fisch". Retrieved 2 June 2018.
  2. ↑ "Menachem Fisch - Tel Aviv University - Academia.edu". telaviv.academia.edu. Retrieved 2 June 2018.
  3. ↑ "Menachem Fisch, Author at Tablet Magazine". Tablet Magazine. Retrieved 2 June 2018.
  4. ↑ "News". www.forschungskolleg-humanwissenschaften.de. Retrieved 2018-06-07.
  5. ↑ "News". www.humboldt-foundation.de. Retrieved 2018-06-07.
  6. ↑ "Creatively Undecided". Retrieved 2 June 2018.
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