Jewish Thought & Contemporary Philosophy

The project will develop active and purposeful dialogue with other theological and religious traditions as well as engage in contemporary questions emanating from political theory and governance, history and the humanities, science and technology, and art and aesthetics.

The project will co-ordinate an annual international conference at University College Dublin, as well as hold various workshops and ateliers on specific themes.

International cooperation will be actively sought with future partner institutions in Europe, North and South America, and the Middle and Far East, and funding for the project’s activities will be sought both from within UCD and from international funding sources.

The current Scientific Board for the project is:

• Prof. Andrew Benjamin (Monash University)
• Prof. Gérard Bensussan (University of Strasbourg)
• Prof. Agatha Bielik-Robson (University of Nottingham)
• Prof. Mylène Botbol-Baum (University of Louvain)
• Prof. Nicolas de Warren (Penn State University)
• Prof. Catherine Chalier (University of Paris Nanterre)
• Prof. Cedric Cohen Skalli (University of Haifa)
• Prof. Felix Heidenreich (University of Stuttgart)
• Prof. Paul Mendes-Flohr (University of Chicago)
• Prof. David Nirenberg (University of Chicago)
• Prof. Orietta Ombrosi (University of Rome Sapienza)
• Prof. Michael Walzer (Princeton University)
• Prof. Elliot Wolfson (University of California Santa Barbara)

Project research themes include: Judaism in Ireland; Anti-judaism and Antisemitism in the History of Philosophy; Jewish Philosophy and Humanism; Jewish Philosophy and Ethics; Jewish Philosophy and Politics; Jewish Philosophy and the Problem of History; Jewish Philosophy and the Environmental Crisis; Jewish Philosophy and the Question of Technology; and Reason and Revelation – Autonomy and Heteronomy.

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