Research Group
Practical and Theoretical Rationality: A Comparative Study (Research Group Conference)
Research Groups:Galicia: Literary and Historical Approaches to the Construction of a Jewish Place
[RG # 142] Galicia: Literary and Historical Approaches to the Construction of a Jewish Place
March 1, 2014 - July 31, 2015
Organizers:
Ariel Hirschfeld (The Hebrew University)
Alan Mintz (Jewish Theological Seminary)
Galicia, the subject of our Research Group, was an invented land, an artificial entity that acquired meaning over the course of its historical experience. Rather than being a land with a longstanding identity of its own, Galicia was created as a province of the Habsburg Monarchy as a product of the negotiations with Russia and Poland that led to the partition of Poland in 1772, and it ceased to exist as a political entity in 1918 with the defeat and dissolution of the Dual Monarchy of Austria-Hungary and its incorporation into the new Poland.
The creation of Galicia and the incorporation of the Jewish communities of the Polish kresy (borderlands) into the new Austrian province meant enormous changes. Social and educational reforms issued from Vienna transformed aspects of Jewish life. Our research group aims not only to study the phenomenon of Galicia, but also to bring the disciplines of history and literature into dialogue.
Yohanan Friedmann
Jonatan Meir
Jonatan Meir is Associate Professor in the Department of Jewish Thought at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. His research interests include the History of the Jews in Eastern Europe, Jewish Polemics, Jewish Mysticism, The Haskalah Movement, Hasidism, and Contemporary Kabbalah.
Yagnik Achyut
Ruth M. Karras
David J. Luban
Practical and Theoretical Rationality: A Comparative Study
[RG # 128] Practical and Theoretical Rationality: A Comparative Study
Organizer:
Ruth Weintraub (Tel-Aviv University)
The reasons which practical rationality invokes are considerations that speak in favour of performing particular actions or adopting particular intentions and ends. And the internal relationships it appeals to are thos between means and ends on the one hand, and intentions and actions on the other.
Philosophers have always studied theoretical and practical rationality, and both topics continue to present vexing and philosophically significant questions. Many suggestive comparisons and distinctions between the two can be found in the philosophical literature. However, these insights are usually random and piecemeal; a sustained study of the relationships and differences between the two kinds of rationality is rarely conducted. Our aim is to study the similarities and differences between the two areas in a systematic way, so as to apply insights gleaned from one realm to the other, and gain a better understanding of the relationship between them and of the nature of reason in general.
Alon Confino
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