Menachem Fisch


Menachem Fisch is an Israeli philosopher. He is the Joseph and Ceil Mazer Professor Emeritus of History and Philosophy of Science, and Director of the Center for Religious and Interreligious Studies at Tel Aviv University. He is also Senior Fellow of the Goethe University's Forschungskolleg Humanwisseschaften, Bad Homburg.
Fisch has published widely on the history of 19th century British science and mathematics, on confirmation theory and rationality, on the theology of the talmudic literature, and the philosophy of talmudic legal reasoning. In recent work he explores the limits of normative self-criticism, the Talmud's dispute of religiosity, the historiography and narratology of scientific framework transitions, political emotions, and the possibility of articulating a pluralist political philosophy from within the assumptions of halakhic Judaism.
Fisch has been a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, Fellow of the Wissenshaftskolleg, the Berlin Institute for Advanced Study and the Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology, MIT, Senior Visiting Fellow at Collegium Budapest, Visiting Scholar at Trinity College, Cambridge, and was a long term Senior Research Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute, Jerusalem.

Awards and Honors

In 2016 Fisch was the recipient of The Humboldt Prize.
In 2017 he was awarded an honorary doctorate in religious philosophy from the Goethe University, Frankfurt.
In 2004 he delivered The Crown-Minnow Lectures, at the University of Notre Dame, and in January 2020 the Dagmar Westberg Lectures at the Goethe University, Frankfurt.
In 2016 A volume dedicated to his work, entitled Menachem Fisch: The Rationality of Religious Dispute, was published by Brill as Vol. 18 of the Library of Contemporary Jewish Philosophers,.

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