Jewish Philosophy in an Analytic Age

Samuel Lebens is Research Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Haifa. He works in early analytic philosophy, philosophy of language, metaphysics, and the philosophy of religion. He is the author of Bertrand Russell and the Nature of Propositions (Routledge, 2017). Along with his two co-editors, Dani Rabinowitz and Aaron Segal, he co-founded the Association for the Philosophy of Judaism.Dani Rabinowitz earned his PhD in philosophy from the University of Oxford. He then held a Junior Research Fellowship at Somerville College, Oxford. He is currently a solicitor at Clifford Chance LLP. Together with Matthew Benton and John Hawthorne, he co-edited Knowledge, Belief, and God: New Insights in Religious Epistemology (OUP, 2018).Aaron Segal is Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research focuses on metaphysics, the afterlife, faith, and divine attributes. He is the co-editor of Jewish Philosophy Past and Present (with Daniel Frank; Routledge, 2016).

• List of IllustrationsList of Contributors1: Samuel Lebens Dani Rabinowitz, and Aaron Segal: IntroductionPART I: TALMUDIC AND RABBINIC PHILOSOPHY2: Eli Hirsch: Talmudic Destiny3: Aaron Segal: Metaphysics out of the Sources of the Halakha or a Halakhic Metaphysic?4: Jeffrey S. Helmreich: A Jurisprudential Puzzle as Old as the Talmud5: Samuel Lebens: A Commentary on a Midrash: Metaphors about Metaphor6: Dani Rabinowitz: Catharsis and the Epistemology of Repentance in the Talmud and Jewish LawPART II: MAIMONIDEAN PHILOSOPHY7: Mark Steiner: Hume and Maimonides on Imaginability and Possibility8: Daniel Frank: Dispassion, God, and Nature: Maimonides and Spinoza9: Josef Stern: Maimonides and his Predecessors on Dying for God as "Sanctification of the Name of God"PART III: PHILOSOPHICAL THEOLOGY10: Howard Wettstein: The Fabric of Faith11: David Shatz: Should Theists Eschew Theodicies?12: Tyron Goldschmidt: A Proof of Exodus: Yehuda HaLevy and Jonathan Edwards Walk into a Bar13: Joshua Golding: Atzmut and Sefirot: A New ApproachPART IV: ETHICS AND VALUE THEORY14: Shira Weiss: The Morality of Biblical Deception: Misleading Truths, Geneivat Daat, and Jacobs Deception of Isaac15: Yonatan Y. Brafman: Neither Authoritarian nor Superfluous: A Normative Account of Rabbinic Authority16: Melis Erdur: A Classical Jewish Approach to The "Normative Question"17: Saul Smilansky: The Good, the Bad, and the Nonidentity ProblemPART V: SYMPOSIUM18: Tzvi Novick, and Samuel Lebens, Dani Rabinowitz, and Aaron Segal: Jewish Studies and Analytic Philosophy of JudaismIndex