Tel Aviv University
The Multidisciplinary Program in the Humanities
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Idan Shimony (2011). “What is (the) Matter – Locke, Leibniz, and the Controversy that Could not Take Place.” In H. Breger, J. Herbst, and S. Erdner (eds.), Natur und Subjekt, IX. Internationaler Leibniz-Kongress, Hannover:... more
Idan Shimony. “Leibniz and the Vis Viva Controversy.” In Marcelo Dascal (ed.), The Practice of Reason: Leibniz and His Controversies, Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2010, pp. 51-73.
Idan Shimony (2016). "Leibniz, the Young Kant, and Boscovich on the Relationality of Space." In Wenchao Li et al. (eds), Für Unser Glück Oder Das Glück Anderer, X. Internationaler Leibniz-Kongress, Hildesheim: Georg Olms, vol. 2, pp.... more
Idan Shimony (2018). "Kant’s First Antinomy and Modern Cosmology." In Konstantinos Boudouris (ed.), Proceedings of the XXIII World Congress of Philosophy. Philosophy Documentation Center & the Greek Philosophical Society, vol. 60, pp.... more
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Idan Shimony (2017). "What Was Kant’s Contribution to the Understanding of Biology?" Kant Yearbook (9), pp. 159-178. Kant’s theory of biology in the Critique of the Power of Judgment may be rejected as obsolete and attacked from two... more
Idan Shimony (2018). "Kant on the Peculiarity of the Human Understanding and the Antinomy of the Teleological Power of Judgment." In Violetta L. Waibel, Margit Ruffing, David Wagner (Eds.), Natur und Freiheit: Akten des XII.... more
The following article deals with the story of two German Jewish brothers, Alfred Lemm and Siegfried Lehmann. The first—a forgotten journalist and writer, the second—a doctor and educator, the founder of the Ben Shemen Youth Village in... more
I was a secular therapist. My patient was a Hasidic Jew.
This paper presents a preliminary study of a little-known medieval Jewish philosopher, Joseph ben Moses Qilti 'the Greek'. In the first part of the paper, I present a synthesis of the fragments of information that we possess regarding... more
The intellectual affinity between Thomas Reid, on one hand, and American pragmatists such as Charles Sanders Peirce, William James, and John Dewey, on the other, has been noted by several scholars. Indeed, Peirce himself professed an... more
Born around 1280, the Provencal Jewish philosopher Joseph ibn Kaspi was a prolific writer whose works touched upon a wide range of subjects. I present here an English translation of the eighth chapter of his final work, The Silver is... more
Joseph Ibn Kaspi was among the most prolific philosophical writers in one of the most vibrant, productive, creative periods in the history of Jewish philosophy. Born around 1280 in Provence, Ibn Kaspi penned works engaging a broad range... more
Moses Mendelssohn, arguably the founding figure of modern Jewish philosophy, famously quipped that it was the hours of his youth spent studying the philosophical work of another Moses—Moses Maimonides—that left him with his famously... more