Special Symposium issue on Judaism and Science that includes essays on "Searching for the Quantum God: On Judaism and Modern Science," "Jewish Philosophy, Science, and the Humanities," "Revisiting Creation, Natural Events and Their Emergent Patterns," "Science and Judaism: Methodological Considerations A Jewish View of the Evolution of Religion," poetry, book reviews, and responses to the Spring 2011 and Summer 2011 issues.
Special Symposium issue on Judaism and Science that includes essays on "Searching for the Quantum God: On Judaism and Modern Science," "Jewish Philoso...
It is not common to think that Jews were interested in happiness or that Judaism has anything to say about happiness. On the contrary, the concept of happiness was a central concern of Jewish thinkers. Hava Tirosh-Samuelson shows that rabbinic Judaism regarded itself primarily as a prescription for the attainment of happiness, and that the discourse on happiness captures the evolution of Jewish intellectual history from antiquity to the seventeenth century. These claims make sense if one understands happiness as human flourishing on the basis of Aristotle's thought in the "Nichomachean...
It is not common to think that Jews were interested in happiness or that Judaism has anything to say about happiness. On the contrary, the concept of ...
Humans have always imagined better futures. From the desire to overcome death to the aspiration to dominion over the world, imaginations of the technological future reveal the commitments, values, and norms of those who construct them. Today, the human future is throwninto question by emerging technologies that promise radical control over human life and elicit corollary imaginations of human perfectibility. This interdisciplinary volumeassemblesscholars of science and technology studies, sociology, philosophy, theology, ethics, and history toexamine imaginations of technological progress...
Humans have always imagined better futures. From the desire to overcome death to the aspiration to dominion over the world, imaginations of the techno...