Internationale Einstein-Konferenz in Tel-Aviv
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Das Goethe Institut Tel-Aviv ehrt den hundertsten Geburtstag von Albert Einsteins Annus Mirabilis mit einem internationalen Symposium. Unter dem Titel „Albert Einstein - Kulturelle Relativität und Wissenschaft als Projekt: Soziale und politische Kontingenzen“ werden Experten aus Deutschland, Israel, Russland, Marokko und Indien referieren. Zu den weiteren Organisatoren gehören das Cohn Institute for History of Philosophy of Science and Ideas und die Tel Aviv University.
Symposium Program
Sunday, 6.March 2005
13:00 - 13:30
Greetings: Prof. Shimon Yankielowicz, Rector, Tel-Aviv University
Introductory Remarks: Leo Corry, Cohn Institute, Tel-Aviv University
13:30 - 15:15
Session 1: Science and the Religious Contexts
Chair: Leo Corry, Tel-Aviv University
Shlomo Sela, Bar-Ilan University: “The Rise of Jewish Medieval Science”
Rivka Feldhay, Tel-Aviv University: “Science and Religion: Conflict or Complementarity?”
15:15 - 15:45
Coffee Break
15:45 - 17:30
Session 2: Science in the Modern European Context
Chair: Gideon Freudenthal, Tel-Aviv University
Alexei Kojevnikov, University of Georgia, Atlanta: “The Phenomenon of Soviet Science”
Shaul Katzir, Bar Ilan University: “National Styles in Science: the Case of French and German Physics in late Nineteenth Century”
17:30 - 18:00
Coffee Break
18:00 - 19:00
Session 3: Science and Creativity
Chair: Moshe Zuckerman, Tel-Aviv University
Eike Gebhardt, Berlin: “The Myth of Creativity“
Monday, 7. March 2005
9:30 - 11:15
Session 4: Science and its Philosophical Contexts
Chair: Ohad Nachtomy, Bar-Ilan University
Orna Harari, Tel-Aviv University: “Two Conceptions of Mathematical Explanation in Greek Thought“
Andreas Blank, Humboldt University, Berlin, & Tel-Aviv University: “Ontological vs. Epistemological Reduction in 17th Century Science: The Case of Leibniz's Hypothesis Physica Nova”
11:15 - 11:45
Coffee Break
11:45 - 13:30
Session 6: The Challenge of Relativism
Chair: Anat Biletzky, Tel-Aviv University
Wolfgang Krohn, Universität Bielefeld: “Universal Objectivism as Cultural Relativism – Reflections on the Origins and Endings of Western Science”
Menachem Fisch, Tel-Aviv University: “Taking the Linguistic Turn Seriously: The Problem with Friedman's Einstein”
13:30 - 15:00
Lunch Break
15:00 - 16:45
Session 6: Science in Asian Contexts
Chair: Ehud Toledano, Tel-Aviv University
Sonja Brentjes, Aga Khan University, London: “Which kind of context are we looking for – the ideal or the real? Knowledge and its discipline(s) in Islamic societies in Western and Central Asia until 1700“
Dhruv Raina, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi: “Revisiting the Non-emergence of Modern Science in Early Modern South Asia”
16:45 - 17:15
Coffee Break
17:15 - 19:00
Session 7: Shaping the Future of Science: Current Issues in Science Policy
Dedicated to the memory of the late Professor Mara Beller
Chair: Sabetai Unguru, Tel-Aviv University
Helga Nowotny, The European Research Advisory Board (EURAB), and the Science Center, Vienna: “The Capacity to Aspire: Science, Innovation and The Fragile Future”
Yehuda Elkana, Central European University, Budapest: “Current Conceptions of the Doctoral Dissertation in Europe and in the USA”
Contact:
Goethe-Instituts Tel-Aviv
Asia House, 4, Weizmann St.
64239 Tel-Aviv
Israel
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