Carlos Fraenkel

Carlos Fraenkel
Associate Professor, McGill University
Departments of Philosophy and Jewish Studies
855 Sherbrooke Street West, Leacock Building, Office 823
Montreal, Quebec, H3A 2T7, Canada
Tel: +1-514-398-6267, Fax: +1-514-398-5158
Email: carlos.fraenkel@mcgill.ca
PERSONAL
Date of birth: March 21, 1971
Citizenship: German, Brazilian, Permanent Resident of Canada
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
Associate Professor (tenured), 2007- present
Joint appointment in the Departments of Philosophy and Jewish Studies
McGill University (Montreal, Canada)
Chair, 2004–present
Interdisciplinary Program in Philosophy and Western Religions
McGill University (Montreal, Canada)
Assistant Professor, 2001–07
Joint appointment in the Departments of Philosophy and Jewish Studies
McGill University (Montreal, Canada)
EDUCATION
Academic Degrees
Doctor of Philosophy (Dr. phil.), summa cum laude, 2000
Freie Universität Berlin (Berlin, Germany) in collaboration with The Hebrew
University (Jerusalem, Israel). Title of dissertation: From Maimonides to Samuel ibn
Tibbon: The Transformation of the Dalâlat al-Hâ’irîn into the Moreh ha-Nevukhim
[in Hebrew]. Awarded the “Shlomo Pines Prize for Outstanding Young Scholars” by
the Faculty of Humanities of The Hebrew University.
M.A. in Philosophy and Jewish Studies, summa cum laude, 1999
Freie Universität Berlin (Berlin, Germany) in collaboration with The Hebrew
University (Jerusalem, Israel)
Additional diplomas, courses and educational experiences
Arabic language school (highest level of proficiency), 2005
Middlebury College (Middlebury, Vermont).
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Three months intensive study of Arabic and medieval Islamic philosophy, 2000
Private teacher from University of Cairo (Cairo, Egypt)
Graduate Studies and intensive Arabic language studies, 1995-97; 1999–2000
The Hebrew University (Jerusalem, Israel)
Intermediary Examinations in Philosophy and Jewish Studies, 1994-95
Freie Universität Berlin (Berlin, Germany)
Greek, Latin, Hebrew Diploma (Graecum / Latinum / Hebraicum), 1994-95
Freie Universität Berlin (Berlin, Germany)
Diplôme d’études françaises de l’université de Paris–Sorbonne, 2
e
degré, 1993
Université de Paris–Sorbonne (Paris, France)
Philosophy and French studies (Erasmus exchange program), 1992-93
Université de Paris–Sorbonne (Paris IV and Paris III), Ecole des hautes études en
sciences sociales, and Collège de France (Paris, France).
Spanish language and literature, 1991
University of Cochabamba (Cochabamba, Bolivia)
Brazilian history and literature, Spanish language and literature, 1991
Universidade de São Paulo (São Paulo, Brazil)
High school diploma (“Abitur”), 1990
Primary and secondary education in Germany and Brazil
VISITING POSITIONS
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (Munich, Germany), 2008
Visiting Professor (“Universitätsprofessor”), Departments of History and Philosophy
[in German]
Université de Genève, Département de Philosophie (Geneva, Switzerland) 2008
Associate Researcher
State Islamic University (Makassar, Indonesia), 2007
Visiting Professor as part of the CIDA-funded McGill-Indonesia Social Equity Project
[in Arabic]
Al-Quds University (East Jerusalem, Palestine), 2006
Visiting Professor, invited to teach joint seminar with Sari Nusseibeh [in Arabic]
The Hebrew University (Jerusalem, Israel), 2006
Associate Researcher
McGill University (Montreal, Canada), 2000–01
Visiting assistant professor in the Department of Jewish Studies
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AWARDS, DISTINCTIONS AND GRANTS
William Dawson Scholar (awarded to outstanding young professors), 2004–09
McGill University (Montreal, Canada)
FQRSC Team Grant for Interdisciplinary Research, 2008–12
“Translation, Transformation, and Transmission in Medieval Cultures”
Co-researchers: J. Fumo, F. Wallis, and R. Wisnovsky
Fonds Québécois de la Recherche sur la Société et la Culture (Quebec, Canada)
SSHRC Standard Research Grant, 2008–11
Project: “Religion as the Handmaid of Philosophy: The Impact of Plato’s Political
Thought on the Interpretation of Religion in Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the
Early Modern Period.”
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (Ottawa, Canada)
Friedrich Solmsen Fellowship, 2007–08
Institute for Research in the Humanities
University of Wisconsin (Madison, Wisconsin)
SSHRC Team Grant for Interdisciplinary Conference, 2006–07
“Vehicles of Transmission, Translation, and Transformation in Medieval Cultures”
Conference held in April 2007, co-organized by J. Fumo, F. Wallis, R. Wisnovsky
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (Ottawa, Canada)
FQRSC Team Grant for Interdisciplinary Research, 2006–08
“Translation, Transformation, and Transmission in Medieval Cultures”
Co-researchers: J. Fumo, F. Wallis, and R. Wisnovsky
Fonds Québécois de la Recherche sur la Société et la Culture (Quebec, Canada)
Lucius N. Littauer Foundation, Award for Book publication, 2005
Awarded for From Maimonides to Samuel ibn Tibbon: The Transformation of the
Dalâlat al-Hâ’irîn into the Moreh ha-Nevukhim
FQRSC New Researcher Grant, 2004–07
Project: “The Place of Themistius and Solomon Maimon in the History of the Deus
sive Natura Doctrine”
Fonds Québécois de la Recherche sur la Société et la Culture (Quebec, Canada)
McGill New Researcher Grant, 2003
Project: “Deus sive Natura in the History of Metaphysical Thought”
McGill University (Montreal, Canada)
C-4 Professorship (= full professorship), 2003 [declined]
Institute of Jewish Studies (Heidelberg, Germany)
Koret Foundation, Award for Book publication, 2003
Awarded for From Maimonides to Samuel ibn Tibbon: The Transformation of the
Dalâlat al-Hâ’irîn into the Moreh ha-Nevukhim
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McGill Internal SSHRC Grant, 2002
Project: Preparation of dissertation for publication.
McGill University (Montreal, Canada)
McGill Travel Grants for conferences in Washington and Los Angeles, 2001-02
McGill University (Montreal, Canada)
The Lady Davis Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2000 [declined]
The Hebrew University (Jerusalem, Israel).
DAAD [German Academic Exchange Agency] scholarship, 1999-2000
Awarded for conducting research at The Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Scholarship of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes, 1995-99
Awarded by national foundation to highly gifted students at German universities
DAAD [German Academic Exchange Agency] scholarship, 1995–96
Awarded for one academic year at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Erasmus scholarship of the European Community, 1992–93
Awarded to study one academic year at the Sorbonne, Paris.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Social and community service
Social volunteer, 1990
Six months volunteering in an impoverished quarter in North Brazil (Fortaleza),
including assisting a lawyer who defended the rights of the inhabitants of the quarter
and teaching in a local elementary school.
Languages
Mother tongues:
German, Portuguese
Fluent:
English, French, Hebrew, Arabic
Proficient:
Spanish
Good reading competence:
Ancient Greek, Latin, Italian
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PUBLICATIONS
A. BOOKS PUBLISHED OR ACCEPTED FOR PUBLICATION
(1) [In Hebrew] From Maimonides to Samuel ibn Tibbon: The Transformation of the Dalâlat
al-Hâ’irîn into the Moreh ha-Nevukhim. Jerusalem: The Hebrew University Magnes Press,
2007.
(2) The Rationalists: Traditions and Contexts, eds. Carlos Fraenkel, Dario Perinetti and Justin
Smith. The New Synthese Historical Library, Springer Academic Publishers [under contract]
(3) Maimonides: the Man and the Image, eds. Carlos Fraenkel and Samuel Kottek, Leiden:
Brill, 2008 [in press].
B. BOOKS UNDER REVIEW
(1) Reason, Religion, and Autonomy—On the Concept and History of Philosophical Religions
from Plato to Spinoza [under review for Cambridge UP]
C. BOOK PROJECTS IN PROGRESS
(1) Themistius, Paraphrase of Metaphysics, Book Lambda, Introduction and Eng. trans.
Carlos Fraenkel and Yoav Meyrav [to be submitted to the Ancient Commentaries on Aristotle
Series, ed. Richard Sorabji, Cornell UP and Duckworth]
D. PAPERS PUBLISHED OR ACCECEPTED FOR PUBLICATION
(1) “The Problem of Anthropomorphism in a Hitherto Unknown Passage from Samuel ibn
Tibbon’s Ma’amar Yiqqawu ha-Mayim and in a Newly-Discovered Letter by David ben
Saul,” Jewish Studies Quarterly, 2004, pp. 83–126.
(2) “Maimonides’ God and Spinoza’s Deus sive Natura,” Journal of the History of
Philosophy 44, No. 2 (2006), 169–215.
(3) [In Hebrew] “Beyond the Faithful Disciple: Samuel ibn Tibbon’s Criticism of
Maimonides,” Daat. A Journal of Jewish Philosophy and Kabbalah 56 – 58 (2006), 61–82.
(3a) Expanded English translation of (3), in Maimonides after 800 Years: Essays on
Maimonides and His Influence, ed. J. Harris, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press,
2007, 33–63.
(4) [In Hebrew] “From Maimonides to Samuel ibn Tibbon: Interpreting Judaism as a
Philosophical Religion,” in Maimonides: Between Tradition and Revolution, ed. A. Ravitzky,
Jerusalem: Zalman Shazar, 2007, 19–46.
(4a) English translation of (4) in Maimonides: the Man and the Image, eds. Carlos Fraenkel
and S. Kottek, Leiden: Brill, 2008 [in press].
(5) “Maimonides, Spinoza, Solomon Maimon and the Completion of the Copernican
Revolution in Philosophy,” in Sepharad in Ashkenaz: Medieval Knowledge and Eighteenth-
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Century Enlightened Jewish Discourse, eds. R. Fontaine, A. Schatz & I. Zwiep, Royal
Netherlands Academy of Art and Sciences, Amsterdam, 2007, 193–220.
(5a) Expanded version of (5): “Maimonides and Spinoza as Sources for Maimon’s Solution
of the ‘problem quid juris’ in Kant’s Theory of Knowledge,” Kant-Studien [forthcoming].
(6) “Teaching Plato in Palestine,” Dissent, Spring 2007, 32–39.
(6a) German translation of (6) in Lettre International: Europas Kulturzeitung 74 (2006), 25–
30.
(6b) Italian translation of (6) in Reset – Un Mese di Idee 103 (2007), 48–54.
(6c) Hebrew translation of (6) in Alpayim – An Interdisciplinary Journal of Contemporary
Thought and Literature [forthcoming].
(7) “Some Reflections on Philosophy, Democracy, and Religion,” in Refleksi – Jurnal Kajian
Agama dan Filsafat 38 (2007), 27–40 (Journal of the Faculty of Islamic Theology and
Philosophy of the State Islamic University in Jakarta).
(8) “Maimonides, Averroes, and Samuel ibn Tibbon on a ‘Skandalon’ of Medieval Science,”
in Aleph: Historical Studies in Science and Judaism 8 (2008), 283–300.
(9) [In Hebrew] “A New Examination of the Attribution to Samuel ibn Tibbon of two
Collections of Glosses on The Guide of the Perplexed and of a Commentary on the Account
of the Beginning with an Appendix Containing a Partial Edition of the Commentary,” Alei
Sefer – A Journal of Bibliography and Booklore 20 (2008), 45–68.
(10) “Could Spinoza Have Presented the Ethics as the True Content of the Bible?” Oxford
Studies in Early Modern Philosophy 4 (2008), eds. D. Garber & Steven Nadler, 1–50.
(11) “Teaching Aristotle in Indonesia,” Dissent, Summer 2008, 5–13.
(11a) “Mit Maimonides in Makassar,” shorter German version of (11) in Neue Zürcher
Zeitung [forthcoming]
(12) “From the Pythagorean Void to Crescas’ God as the Place of the World,” Zutot:
Perspectives on Jewish Culture 5 (2008) [in press].
(13) “The Divine Attributes,” in The Cambridge History of Medieval Jewish Philosophy, eds.
by S. Nadler & T. Rudavsky, Cambridge University Press, 2008 [in press].
(14) “Hasdai Crescas on God as the Place of the World and Spinoza’s Notion of God as Res
Extensa,” Aleph: Historical Studies in Science and Judaism [forthcoming].
(15) “The Status of Theology in the Renaissance Averroist Elijah Delmedigo and in Spinoza:
From the Handmaid of Philosophy to an Independent Discipline,” The Rationalists:
Traditions and Contexts, eds. Carlos Fraenkel, Dario Perinetti and Justin Smith. The New
Synthese Historical Library of Springer Academic Publishers [forthcoming].
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(15a) Shorter German version of [14] in Aufbruch ins moderne Europa – Philosophie
zwischen 1400 und 1700, Proceedings of the first international congress of the ESEMP,
Meiner Verlag [forthcoming].
(16) “On the Concept and History of Philosophical Religions.” Invited chapter for
Interpreting Nature and Scripture in the Abrahamic Religions – History of a Dialogue, Scott
Mandelbrote and Jitse van der Meer (eds.), Leiden: Brill [forthcoming].
(17) “Philosophy and Exegesis in Al-Fârâbî, Averroes, and Maimonides.” Invited
contribution for a special issue of Laval Théologique et Philosophique on “The Philosophical
Commentary in Antiquity and Beyond” [forthcoming].
(18) Review of D. J. O’Meara, Platonopolis – Platonic Political Philosophy in Late
Antiquity, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. For Hebraic Political Studies
[forthcoming].
(19) “Divine Law in the Platonic Tradition – One or Many?” in Universality of Reason –
Plurality of Philosophies in the Middle Ages: Proceedings of the 12
th
International Congress
of the SIEPM in Palermo 2007 [forthcoming].
E. PAPERS COMPLETED AND UNDER REVIEW
(1) “Making the Citizens Better: From Socratic Politics to Plato’s Political
Philosophy in the Middle and Late Dialogues.”
F. ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES
[In German] The following appeared in A. Kilcher & O. Fraisse (Hrsg.), Lexikon jüdischer
Philosophen, Stuttgart-Weimar: J. B. Metzler, 2003:
(1) Crescas, Hasdai
(2) Ibn Daud, Abraham
(3) Ibn Tibbon, Jehuda / Samuel
(4) Levi ben Gershon
(5) Pines, Shlomo
(6) Spinoza, Baruch de
(7) Wolfson, Harry A.
(8) [In German] Willensfreiheit: VII. Judentum, Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart, 4.
Auflage, vol. 8, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2005, 1578-1579
(8a) English translation of [8], Religion Past and Present, Leiden: Brill [forthcoming]
(9) Spinoza, Baruch de, Encyclopedia Judaica (Revised Edition), 2007
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PRESENTATIONS
• “Mehr Theokratie wagen! Was al-Fârâbî und Maimonides Ayaan Hirsi Ali antworten
würden,“ Simon-Dubnow-Institut, Universität Leipzig, 17 July, 2008 [invited].
• “The Averroistic Legacy in Spinoza and Pierre Bayle,” Conference Renaissance
Averroism and its Aftermath: Arabic Philosophy in Early Modern Europe, The Warburg
Institute, London, 20–21 June, 2008 [invited].
• “Critical Self-Examination, Socratic Education, and Democracy,” New Policy School,
Belgrade, 23 May, 2008.
• “From God as the Place of the World in Philo of Alexandria and Hasdai Crescas to
Spinoza's God as Res Extensa,” Conference on Nature et surnaturel. Philosophies de la
nature et métaphysique aux XVIIe-XVIIIe siècles, Luxemburg, 23-24 February 2008
• “Religion as the Handmaid of Philosophy: The Impact of Plato’s Political Philosophy on
the Philosophical Interpretation of Religion in Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Early
Modern Period,” Werkstattgespräch,” Institut für Philosophie, Universität Würzburg, 31.
January, 2008.
• “On the Relationship Between Philosophy and Religion in Averroes, Elijah Delmedigo,
and Spinoza,” Early Modern Philosophy Workshop, The University of Chicago, 16.
November 2007.
• “Religion as the Handmaid of Philosophy: On the Philosophical Interpretation of Religion
from Antiquity to the Enlightenment,” Institute for Research in the Humanities,
University of Madison-Wisconsin, 20 November 2007.
• “Philosophy and Exegesis in al-Fârâbî, Averroes, and Maimonides,” Midwest Seminar in
Ancient and Medieval Philosophy, Marquette University, 2 November 2007.
• Commentator on paper by Alfred Ivry at the 2007 Toronto Colloquium in Medieval
Philosophy, 28–29 September, 2007.
• “Divine Law in the Platonic Tradition – One or Many?” Universality of Reason,
Plurality of Philosophies in the Middle Ages, 12
th
International Congress of Medieval
Philosophy, Palermo, 16–22 September 2007.
• “Teaching Maimonides in Makassar and Plato in Palestine.” International Conference
“Islam through Jewish Eyes – Judaism through Muslim Eyes,” Schloß Elmau, Germany,
25–26 June, 2007.
• “Some Reflections on Philosophy, Religion, and Democracy.” Public Lecture at the State
Islamic University, Jakarta, Indonesia, 31 May, 2007.
• “Some Reflections on Philosophy, Religion, and Democracy.” Public Lecture at the State
Islamic University, Makassar, Indonesia, 24 May, 2007.
• “From Philo of Alexandria to Eusebius of Caesarea: The Platonic Transformation of
Judaism and Christianity in Late Antiquity and the Transmission of Greek Philosophy.”
Vehicles of Translation, Transmission, and Transformation in Medieval Cultures,
International Conference, McGill University, Montreal, 26–28 April.
• “The Status of Theology: From Philosophy’s Handmaid to an Independent Discipline in
Renaissance Averroism and Spinoza.” Aufbruch ins Moderne Europa – Philosophie
zwischen 1400 und 1700, First International Congress of the European Society for Early
Modern Philosophy, Essen, March 2007.
• “Poverty and Human Dignity in the Jewish and Muslim intellectual traditions.”
International Conference “The Dignity of the Poor: Concepts, Practices,
Representations,” 7–9 December 2006, German Historical Institute, London.
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• “Rational Dogmatism and Empirical Skepticism in Solomon Maimon’s Commentary on
Maimonides’ Presentation of the Doctrines of Kalam,” International Conference on
Solomon Maimon, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam, 30.
October – 2. November 2006.
• [In Hebrew] “Religion as the Handmaid of Philosophy in Plato, Philo, and al-Fârâbî.”
The Hebrew University Jerusalem. 7. June 2006.
• “Platonic Interpretations of Revealed Religion: from Ancient Alexandria to Baghdad.”
International Society for Neoplatonic Studies, APA, Eastern Division, 29. December
2005.
• “Plato’s Political Phliosophy and the Interpretation of Judaisim, Christianity, and Islam as
Philosophical Religions.” McGill Medievalists Works in Progress Series, 29. September
2005.
• “Could Spinoza Have Written the Ethics as a Commentary on the Bible?” 22. April 2005,
Montreal Interuniversity Workshop in the History of Philosophy.
• “Philosophy and Revelation in al-Fârâbî and Maimonides” Meeting sponsored by the
American Society for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy at the APA, Eastern
Division, Boston, 27 – 30 December 2004.
• “Philosophy and Revelation in al-Fârâbî and Maimonides.” The Boston University Center
of Philosophy and History of Science, November 2004.
• “From Maimonides to Samuel ibn Tibbon: Interpreting Judaism as a Philosophical
Religion.” Maimonides Conference at Harvard University, October 2004.
• “From Maimonides to Samuel ibn Tibbon: Interpreting Judaism as a Philosophical
Religion.” International Conference “Maimonides, the Man and his Image”, University
College London, 15 – 17 June 2004.
• “Some Remarks on the Role of Human Rights and Human Dignity in Greek Philosophy
and the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Intellectual Traditions,” Workshop Human
Dignity, Human Rights and Duties, Historical, Cultural, and Social Aspects sponsored by
the International Union of Academies, Barcelona, 26 – 27 May, 2004.
• [In Hebrew] “Between Dogmatic Aristotelianism and Scientific Progress: Averroes’ and
Maimonides’ Reaction to the Crisis of Aristotelian Cosmology in the 12
th
Century.”
International Conference: Maimonides: Between Tradition and Revolution, Jerusalem,
May 2004.
• “Hasdai Crescas and Spinoza on God’s Infinite Extension.” Invited lecture to the Spinoza
Study Group at the Dept. of Philosophy at Yale University. November 2003.
• “Moses and Christ as Authors of Philosophical Fiction: the Platonic Sources of Philo’s
Theory of Scripture and its Influence on Origen of Alexandria.” International Conference:
The Changing Face of Judaism, Christianity and Other Greco-Roman Religions in
Antiquity, Faculty of Religious Studies at McGill University, Montreal, 15 – 19
September 2003.
• “The Metaphysical Foundation of the Study of Nature in Medieval Philosophy.”
International Conference: Medieval Jews and the Sciences – A Synoptic View. Institute
of Jewish Studies, London, 16 – 19 June 2003.
• “Maimonides, Lodewijk Meyer, and Spinoza on the Interpretation of Scripture.” 16
December 2002. 34
th
Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies.
• “Vom Monotheismus Jüdischer Aristoteliker im Mittelalter zu Spinozas Monismus.”
Invited Lecture. July 2002. Philosophisches Institut der Freien Universität Berlin.
• “Maimonides, Spinoza, Solomon Maimon and the Completion of the Copernican
Revolution in Philosophy.” International conference: Sepharad in Ashkenaz – Medieval
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knowledge and eighteenth-century enlightened Jewish discourse. Royal Netherlands
Academy of Arts and Sciences, 18 – 21 February 2002.
• “From Monotheism to Monism – The Relationship of the Divine Intellect in Jewish
Aristotelianism to Spinoza’s Deus sive Natura”. 17 December 2001. Association for
Jewish Studies - 33
rd
Conference.
• “Metaphysics in an Oriental Garb, or how the God of Aristotle became the God of the
Hebrews in Spinoza and Hegel.” 21. September 2001. Dept. of Philosophy, McGill
University.
• “Hätte Spinoza die Ethik als einen Kommentar zur Bibel schreiben können?” Invited
Lecture. Philosophisches Seminar der Universität Hamburg, June 2001.
• [In Hebrew] “What is in God’s Mind in the Metaphysical Tradition from Aristotle to
Hegel”. Lecture on occasion of the award of the prize in memory of Prof. Shlomo Pines at
The Hebrew University. Jerusalem, May 2001.
• “Measuring God’s Body: From Medieval Jewish Aristotelianism to Spinoza”. McGill
University, Dept. of Jewish Studies. 16. January 2001.
• [In Hebrew] “Different Aspects of Samuel ibn Tibbon’s Relationship to the Guide of the
Perplexed.” Colloquium of the Faculty of Philosophy at Bar Ilan University. 29. February
2000.
CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS ORGANIZED
2004–Present: Co-Organizer [with Dario Perinetti and Justin E. H. Smith] of the Montreal
Interuniversity Workshop in the History of Philosophy / Séminaire interuniversitaire
montréalais en histoire de la philosophie (www.er.uqam.ca/nobel/r26172/SIMHP/simhp-
miwhp.html)
Vehicles of Translation, Transmission, and Transformation in Medieval Cultures,
International Conference, McGill University, Montreal, 26–28 April [Co-organized with
Jamie Fumo, Faith Wallis, and Robert Wisnovsky]
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
McGill University
A. Introductory Undergraduate
• History of Jewish Philosophy and Thought: From the Bible to the 17
th
Century
• Philosophy and Western Religions: Greek Philosophy and the Jewish, Christian and
Islamic Religious Traditions from Antiquity to the Middle Ages
• Introduction to Plato
• Greek Political Theory
B. Advanced Undergraduate
• Philosophy and Exegesis in Maimonides and Muslim Aristotelianism
• Platonism, Philo, and the Philosophical Interpretation of Religion in Alexandria [jointly
taught with Justin Smith, Dept. of Philosophy, Concordia University]
• The Philosophy of Love: Leone Ebreo’s Dialoghi d’amore and the Philosophical Concept
of Love from Plato to the Renaissance
• From Spinoza to Mendelssohn
• Spinoza and the Jewish Philosophical Tradition
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• Moses Maimonides and Thomas Aquinas [jointly taught with Torrance Kirby,
Faculty of Religious Studies]
• Philosophy and Exegesis in Medieval Jewish Thought
• Ethics, Politics, and Religion in Maimonides and in some of his Greek and Muslim
Predecessors
C. Graduate
• The Taste of God: Ghazali and Judah Halevi [jointly taught with Eric Ormsby,
Institute of Islamic Studies]
• Rationalism in Islam and Judaism: al-Fârâbî and Maimonides [jointly taught with
Lawrence Kaplan, Dept. of Jewish Studies]
• Medieval Jewish Mysticism [jointly taught with Lawrence Kaplan, Dept. of Jewish
Studies]
Al-Quds University (East Jerusalem, Palestine)
Seminar (2006)
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,
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,
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ﺚﻳﺪﺤﻟا يدﻮﻬﻴﻟاو
•
Philosophy, Politics, and Religion in Plato, Medieval Islamic and Jewish Philosophy, and
some Modern Muslim and Jewish Thinkers [Seminar in philosophy jointly taught with
Sari Nusseibeh, President of al-Quds University].
State Islamic University (Makassar, Indonesia)
Seminar (May 2007)
•
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,
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,
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,
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,
ﺔﻳدﻮﻬﻴﻟاو ﺔﻴﻣﻼﺳﻻا
Translation, Integration, Transformation: Ethics, Politics, and Religion in Greek, Muslim,
and Jewish Philosophy
Ludwig-Maximillians Universität (München, Germany)
Summer Term 2008
• Die Religion als Dienstmagd der Philosophie: von der Antike bis zur Aufklärung
[Vorlesung]
• Maimonides und Averroes [Seminar]
• Spinozas Ethik [Oberseminar; to be co-taught with Professor Remi Brague].
REFEREE
Journal of the History of Philosophy
Jewish Studies Quarterly
Political Theory
Alef—Studies in Science and Judaism
Princeton University Press
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ACADEMIC ASSOCIATIONS
American Philosophical Association (APA)
Association of Jewish Studies (AJS)
European Society for Early Modern Philosophy (ESEMP)
Société Internationale pour l’Étude de la Philosophie Médiévale (SIEPM)