| Cognitive Scientist and Linguist Steven Pinker to Headline at Shalem Psycho-Ontology Conference |
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Harvard professor and best-selling author Steven Pinker, whose best-selling book, The Language Instinct,” has recently been translated into Hebrew for the first time by Shalem Press, will headline at the Shalem Center’s Psycho-Ontology Conference from December 11-15, 2011. The 2010 Foreign Policy nominee for Top Global Thinker will also discuss his new book, The Better Angels of our Nature: Why Violence has Declined, as well as The Language Instinct, at separate events hosted by The Shalem Center on December 11 in Jerusalem and on December 13 in Tel Aviv.
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Merely “To Be or Not to Be” Is No Longer the Question
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As disciplines, cognitive science and metaphysics are generally conducted without reference to one another, though philosophers from Hume to Kant, and James, Bergson, Husserl, Kuhn, and Goodman have, in different ways, seemed to indicate a relationship. At Shalem’s upcoming Psycho-Ontology Conference on December 11-15, 2011, participants will raise questions that can be of interest to current philosophy and cognitive science: What role do perception, thought, and emotion play in helping to constitute the world we inhabit? And conversely, what can studying the fundamental features of reality reveal about the way human cognitive processes work?
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Azure Essay Sets New Course for Israeli High Schools
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Following the publication in Azure investigative journalist Adi Schwartz’s article “A Tragedy Shrouded in Silence: The Destruction of the Arab World’s Jewry,” Israel’s Ministry of Education has announced that it will include Schwartz’s essay on its list of required reading for public high school students. Schwartz will also be invited to lead study sessions for high-school history teachers on the subject of the history of Jews from Arab lands.
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Scholar Spotlight: Meet Rabbi Joseph Isaac Lifshitz
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Rabbi Joseph Isaac Lifshitz, author of the upcoming Rabbi Meir of Rothenburg and the Foundations of Jewish Political Thought and senior fellow in Shalem’s Department of Philosophy, Political Theory and Religion, was recently appointed to the board of directors of the Jerusalem College of Technology. Rabbi Lifshitz is the Rabbi of a congregation in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Pisgat Ze’ev, where he resides with his wife and seven children. We recently sat down with Rabbi Lifshitz to learn more about him.
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30 Nov 2011 | 4 Kislev 5772
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