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David Shatz: Torah, Philosophy, and Culture
Series: - Library of Contemporary Jewish Philosophers, Volume: 19
David Shatz is the Ronald P. Stanton University Professor of Philosophy, Ethics, and Religious Thought at Yeshiva University. With rabbinic ordination earned at Yeshiva University and a Ph.D. with distinction in philosophy from Columbia University, Shatz is committed to integrating Judaism and secular wisdom. An analytic philosopher as well as a Jewish philosopher, he has written extensively on free will, ethics, epistemology, medieval and modern Jewish philosophy, and philosophy of religion. His writings cover such topics as autonomy, altruism, philosophical skepticism, science and Judaism, peer review, theodicy, biblical interpretation, Maimonides, modern rabbinic figures, messianism, fanaticism, religious diversity, and theology. Shatz is also editor of the MeOtzar HoRav series, which publishes manuscripts of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, and is editor of the Torah u-Madda Journal.
Hava Tirosh-Samuelson is Professor of History, Irving and Miriam Lowe Professor of Modern Judaism, and Director of the Center for Jewish Studies at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona.
Aaron W. Hughes holds the Philip S. Bernstein Chair of Jewish Studies in the Department of Religion and Classics at the University of Rochester.
Aaron W. Hughes holds the Philip S. Bernstein Chair of Jewish Studies in the Department of Religion and Classics at the University of Rochester.
The Contributors
Editors' Introduction to the Series
David Shatz: An Intellectual Portrait, Alex Sztuden
Irresistible Goodness and Alternative Possibilities, David Shatz
"As Thyself”: The Limits of Altruism in Jewish Ethics, David Shatz
Theism and Epistemic Recalcitrance, David Shatz
Science and Religious Consciousness in the Thought of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, David Shatz
Interview with David Shatz, Hava Tirosh-Samuelson
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Editors' Introduction to the Series
David Shatz: An Intellectual Portrait, Alex Sztuden
Irresistible Goodness and Alternative Possibilities, David Shatz
"As Thyself”: The Limits of Altruism in Jewish Ethics, David Shatz
Theism and Epistemic Recalcitrance, David Shatz
Science and Religious Consciousness in the Thought of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, David Shatz
Interview with David Shatz, Hava Tirosh-Samuelson
Select Bibliography
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