Prof. Yossef Schwartz

6 Hagiborim St.

Ramat Gan, ISRAEL

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Tel: Home - 972-3-5231201

Office – 972-3-6409198

Graduate Studies:

1987 – 1989 Studies of Comparative Science of Religion, Philosophy and History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. 1989 - 1991 Studies of Theology and Philosophy at the University of Zürich. 1991 - 1993 Studies for the MA degree (“Lizentiat”) in Mediaeval Philosophy at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. Title of MA thesis: Das Absolute als Grundvoraussetzung; Erkenntnis, Theologie und Metaphysik bei Ulrich von Strassburg im Vergleich zu Albertus Magnus und Thomas von Aquin. 1994 - 1996 Ph.D. studies at the Hebrew University. Dissertation written under the supervision of Prof. Avital Wohlman and submitted in June 1996. It was accepted “Summa cum laude”. Title of the Dissertation: The Influence of ‘The Guide of the Perplexed’ on Meister Eckhart’s Later Writings.

University Teaching:

1994 - 1995 Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Dept. of Jewish Philosophy).

1997 - 1998 Bar Ilan University (Dept. of Philosophy)

1998 – 2000 Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Dept. of Philosophy) and the Open University (Medieval History).

1997 - 2000 Alma Hebrew College.

1999 – 2001 Gust Lecture at the Medieval Department, Central European University (Budapest).

2000 – 2002 Professor (C 4) at the Goethe University of Frankfurt (Fachbereich evangelische Theologie). Visiting Professor in the “Jüdische Hochschule” in Heidelberg.

2002 - 2011 Senior lecturer, The Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Tel Aviv University (2005 - tenure).

Since 2009 Head of the Cohn Institute.

Since 2011 Associated Professor

2010 – 2012 Visiting Professor. Medieval Department, Central European University, Budapest

MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

Year Society

Since 1997 Société internationale pour l’étude de la philosophie médiévale (SIEPM), Louvain-la-Neuve

Since 1998 The New Israel Philosophical Society

Since 2001 Institut für Religionsphilosophische Forschung (IRF), Wollfgang Goethe Universität, Frankfurt

Since 2006 Scientific Comitee: Philosophisches Jahrbuch

Since 2007 Bayrath: Knorr von Rosenroth Gesselscahft