Curriculum Vitae

Études

• Mathématiques et physique, Université hébraïque de Jérusalem, 1965–1968, B.Sc. (avec mention) en 1968.
• Mathématiques, physique, histoire et philosophie des sciences, Université hébraïque de Jérusalem, M.Sc. (avec mention) en 1971.
• Philosophie, Université libre de Berlin (Ouest), 1971-1974.
• Doctorat de troisième cycle en épistémologie (avec mention), Université de Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne, 1981.
• Habilitation à diriger des recherches, Université de Paris 7, 1996.

Fonction principale

• Professeur à l’Université de Genève, 2010 
• Directeur de recherche émérite, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Paris, 2009 

Autre fonction

• Directeur de la revue Aleph : Historical Studies in Science and Judaism.

Principales publications

Livres

1. Introduction to the Philosophy of Science (en hébreu) (Tel Aviv: The Israeli Open University, 1976).
2. (éd.) Hélène Metzger, La Méthode philosophique en histoire des sciences (Paris, Fayard,1987).
3. (éd.) Études sur / Studies on Hélène Metzger Corpus (Paris) no. 8/9, 1988. Réimprimé: Leyde, Brill,1990.
4. (éd.) Joseph Ben-David, Scientific Growth : Collected Essays on the Social Organization and Ethos of Science (Berkeley / Los Angeles / Oxford, University of California Press, 1991).
5. (éd.) Studies on Gersonides - A Fourteenth-Century Jewish Philosopher-Scientist (Leyde, Brill,1992).
6. Aristotle's Theory of Material Substance. Form and Soul, Heat and Pneuma (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1995).
7. (éd.) Joseph Ben-David, Éléments d'une sociologie historique des sciences. (Paris, Presses universitaires de France, 1997).
8. (éd.), AIDS in Jewish Thought and Law (Hoboken, New Jersey, Ktav Publishing Co., 1998).
9. (éd. avec Jean-Pierre Rothschild et Gilbert Dahan), Torah et Science: Perspectives historiques et théoriques. Mélanges Charles Touati (Louvain, Peeters, 2001).
10. (éd. avec S. Kottek), Mélanges d'histoire de la médecine hébraïque. Études choisies de la Revue de l'histoire de la médecine hébraïque (Leyde, Brill, 2003).
11. Science in the Medieval Hebrew and Arabic Traditions (Aldershot, Ashgate [Variorum Collected Studies Series], 2005).
12. (éd.), Science and Philosophy in Ashkenazi Culture: Rejection, Toleration, and Accommodation, in: Jahrbuch des Simon-Dubnow-Instituts; Simon Dubnow Institute Yearbook, vol. 8 (2009) (Leipzig: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2009), pp. 13-315.
13. (éd.) Science in Medieval Jewish Cultures (Boston/ Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011).
14. (éd. avec Reimund Leicht), Studies on Moritz Steinschneider (1816-1907) (Leiden: Brill, 2011).

Articles récents

1. “Aaron Salomon Gumpertz, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, and the First Call for an Improvement of the Civil Rights of Jews in Germany (1753)”, AJS Review 29 (2005), p. 299-353.
2. “Ein symbolischer Anfang der Berliner Aufklärung: Veitel Ephraim, David Fränckel, Aaron Gumpertz und die patriotische Feier in der Synagoge am 28. Dezember 1745”, Judaica. Beiträge zum Verstehen des Judentums 61 (2005), p. 193-251.
3. “Hélène Metzger (1888-1944),” in: Jean Gayon and Michel Bitbol (éd.) L'Épistémologie française, 1850-1950 (Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 2006), p. 113-156.
4. “L’Introduction arithmétique de Nicomaque de Gérase dans les traditions syriaque, arabe et hébraïque” in R. Goulet (éd.), Dictionnaire des philosophes antiques, vol. 4 (Paris, CNRS Édition, 2005), p. 690-694.
5. “A Twelfth-Century Provençal Amateur of Neoplatonic Philosophy in Hebrew: R. Asher b. Meshullam of Lunel”, Chora 3-4 (2005-2006), p. 155-182.
6. (avec Shlomo Sela), “Abraham Ibn Ezra’s Scholarly Writings: A Chronological Listing”, Aleph: Historical Studies in Science & Judaism 6 (2006), p. 13-55.
7. “The Medieval Astrologization of The Aristotelian Cosmos: From Alexander of Aphrodisias to Averroes,” Mélanges de l’Université Saint-Joseph 59 (2006), 29-68.
8. “Hebrew Medieval Science in Zamosc ca. 1730. The Early Years of Rabbi Israel ben Moses Halevy of Zamosc,” in Resianne Fontaine, Andrea Schatz, Irene E. Zwiep (éd.), Sepharad in Ashkenaz. Medieval Learning and Eighteenth-Century Enlightened Jewish Discourse (Amsterdam, Edita KNAW, 2007), p. 25-67.
9. “Ne<.>sa<.>h Yisrael or Re<.>sa<.>h Yisrael? The Place of Science in R. Israel of Zamosc's Talmudic Novellae" (Héb.), in : Haim (Howard) Kreisel, éd., Study and Knowledge in Jewish Thought. vol. 2 (Heb.) (The Goldstein-Goren Library of Jewish Thought. Publication no. 5). Beer Sheva: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Press, 2006, p. 223-235.
10. “Maimonides on the Scope of Metaphysics alias Ma'aseh Merkavah: the Evolution of his Views," in Carlos del Valle, Santiago García-Jalón and Juan Pedro Monferrer (eds.), Maimónides y su época (Madrid, Sociedad Estatal de Conmemoraciones Culturales, 2007), p. 221-230.
11. “Jewish Traditionalism and Early Modern Science: Rabbi Israel Zamosc’s Dialectic of the Enlightenment (Berlin, 1744),” in Thinking Impossibilities: The Legacy of Amos Funkenstein , éd. par Robert S. Westman et David Biale (Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2008), p. 63-96.
12. “Samuel Ibn Tibbon’s Avicennian Theory of an Eternal World,” Aleph: Historical Studies in Science and Judaism 8 (2008), 41-129.
13. “Four Observations on Maimonides’ Four Celestial Globes (Guide 2:9-10),” in A. Ravitzky (éd.), Maimonides: Conservatism, Originality and Revolution [héb.] (Jérusalem: Merkaz Zalman Shazar, 2008), p. 499-527.
14. (Avec Mauro Zonta) “Remnants of <.>Habib Ibn Bahrîz’s Arabic Translation of Nicomachus of Gerasa’s Introduction to Arithmetic,” in Y.T. Langermann et al. (éd.), Adaptations and Innovations: Studies on the Interaction between Jewish and Islamic Thought and Literature from the Early Middle Ages to the Late Twentieth Century, dedicated to Professor Joel L. Kraemer (Louvain: Éditions Peeters, 2007), p. 67-82.
15. “The Biological Foundations of Intellectual Elitism: Maimonides vs. Al-Fârâbî,” Maimonidean Studies 5 (2008), p. 293-323.
16. “Transfert culturel à Lunel au milieu du douzième siècle: Qu’est-ce qui a motivé les premières traductions provençales de l’arabe en hébreu?” in: Danielle Iancou-Agou and Élie Nicolas (éd.), Des Tibbonides à Maïmonide: Rayonnement des Juifs andalous en Pays d'Oc médiéval (Paris : Editions du Cerf, 2009), p. 95-108.
17. “Cosmology: The Heavenly Bodies,” in Steven Nadler and Tamar Rudavsky (eds.), The Cambridge History of Jewish Philosophy: From Antiquity through the Seventeenth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009), p. 302-361.
18. (avec Mauro Zonta), “Nicomachus of Gerasa in Spain Circa 1100: Abraham bar Hiyya’s Testimony ,” Aleph 9 (2009), p. 189-224.
19. “The Astrologization of the Aristotelian Cosmos: Celestial Influences on the Sublunary World in Aristotle, Alexander of Aphrodisias, and Averroes,” in: Alan C. Bowen and Christian Wildberg. (eds.), A Companion to Aristotle's Cosmology: Collected Papers on De Caelo (Leiden, Brill, 2009), p. 239-281.
20. “ ‘Instrumentalism’ and ‘Realism’ as Categories in the History of Astronomy: Duhem vs. Popper, Maimonides vs. Gersonides,” in: Michael Heidelberger and Gregor Schiemann, eds., The Significance of the Hypothetical in the Natural Sciences (Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2009), pp. 269-294. (Revised version of no. 68).
21. “Hermann Zotenberg (1834-1909): Le savant qui a réussi à se faire oublier,” Revue des etudes juives 169 (2010), pp. 487-514.
22. “Georg (Jiří) Alter (1891-1972): Astronomer, Historian of Astronomy, and Musician,” Aleph 11 (2011), pp. 115-156.
23. “Goremim u-meni‘im be-hiwwa<.>serut tenu‘at ha-targumim be-Lunel ba-me’ah ha-y”b. Yehudah b. Sha’ul Ibn Tibbon u-patronaw R. Meshullam b”R. Ya‘aqov we-R. Asher b”R Meshullam,” (= Causes and reasons for the emergence of the 12^th-century translation movement in Lunel. Judah Ibn Tibbon and his patrons R. Meshullam b. Jacob and R. Asher b. Meshullam). In: R. Reiner et al (eds.) Ta-Shma: Studies in Judaica in Memory of Israel M. Ta-Shma (Alon-Shevut: Tevunot Publishing,, 2011), pp. 651-72.
24. “Averroes' Changing Mind on the Role of the Active Intellect in the Generation of Animate Beings," in : in: Ahmed Hasnawi (ed.), La lumière de l’intellect. La pensée scientifique et philosophique d'Averroès dans son temps (Louvain-Paris: Éditions Peeters, 2011), pp.319-328.
25. “The Aim and Structure of Steinschneider’s Die Hebraeischen Übersetzungen des Mittelalters. The Historiographic Underpinnings of a Masterpiece and Their Untoward Consequences,” in Reimund Leicht and Gad Freudenthal, eds., Studies on Moritz Steinschneider. Moritz Steinschneider and the Emergence of the Science of Judaism in Nineteenth-Century Germany (Boston and Leiden: Brill, 2011), pp. 191-211.
26. “Introduction: The History of Science in Medieval Jewish Cultures. Toward a Definition of the Agenda”, in G. Freudenthal (ed.), Science in Medieval Jewish Cultures (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011), pp. 1-10.
27. “Arabic and Latin Cultures as Resources for the Hebrew Translation Movement: Comparative Considerations, Both Quantitative and Qualitative,” in G. Freudenthal (ed.), Science in Medieval Jewish Cultures (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011), pp. 74-105.
28. “Medieval Alchemy in Hebrew: A Noted Absence,” in G. Freudenthal (ed.), Science in Medieval Jewish Cultures (New York: Cambridge University Press, in 2011), pp. 343-58.
29. “The Aim and Structure of Steinschneider’s Die Hebraeischen Übersetzungen des Mittelalters. The Historiographic Underpinnings of a Masterpiece and Their Untoward Consequences,” in Reimund Leicht and Gad Freudenthal, eds., Studies on Moritz Steinschneider. Moritz Steinschneider and the Emergence of the Science of Judaism in Nineteenth-Century Germany (Boston and Leiden: Brill, 2011), pp. 191-211.
30. "Averroes' Changing Mind on the Role of the Active Intellect in the Generation of Animate Beings," in: Ahmed Hasnawi (ed.), La lumière de l’intellect. La pensée scientifique et philosophique d'Averroès dans son temps (Louvain-Paris: Éditions Peeters, 2011), pp.319-328.
31. “Arabic into Hebrew. The Emergence of the Translation Movement in Twelfth-Century Provence and Jewish-Christian Polemic,” in: Border Crossings: Interreligious Interaction and the Exchange of Ideas in the Islamic Middle Ages, David Freidenreich and Miriam Goldstein, eds., (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011), pp. 124-143.
32. “Professor Joseph Ben-David (1920-1986): The Man and the Sociologist – A Personal Memoir,” Iggeret (Israel Academy of Sciences) no. 33 (December 2011), pp. 48-52 (in Hebrew).
33. “Moritz Steinschneider and the Medieval Hebrew Translations: His Historiographical Views and Their Impact on Intellectual History,” Pe‘amim 129 (2012), pp. 191-211 (Heb.).
34. (With Mauro Zonta), “Avicenna amongst Medieval Jews. The Reception of Avicenna’s Philosophical, Scientific and Medical Writings in Jewish Cultures, East and West,” Arabic Sciences and Philosophy 22 (2012), pp. 217-287.