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Sunday, March 11, 2018
4:00 PM EDT - 5:30 PM EDT
Temple Shalom
8401 Grubb Road, Chevy Chase, MD 20815
Jews everywhere know Moses Maimonides (1138-1204) as one of the greatest rabbis and Jewish philosophers of the Middle Ages, but he also wrote treatises on logic, mathematics, and medicine, and he practiced medicine in the court of the Sultan of Egypt. Maimonides was both heir to and critic of the reigning Arabic Aristotelian tradition in which science and philosophy are hardly distinguishable.
Come learn about the milieu from which modern science eventually emerged, as well as the possible connections and distinctions between philosophy and science.
Dr. Josef Stern is William H. Colvin Professor of Philosophy Emeritus and the Inaugural Director of the Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Chicago. Dr. Stern's most recent book is The Matter and Form of Maimonides Guide (Harvard U. 2013). He is completing a monograph on Maimonides epistemology of prophecy.
Co-sponsored by the Institute for Science and Judaism.
Sunday, March 11, 2018
4:00 PM EDT - 5:30 PM EDT
Temple Shalom
8401 Grubb Road
Chevy Chase, MD 20815
Sunday, March 11, 2018
4:00 PM EDT - 5:30 PM EDT
Temple Shalom
8401 Grubb Road
Chevy Chase, MD 20815