Researchers

Conventionalism, Cambridge University Press 2006

Causation in Science, Princeton University Press 2018

Rethinking the Concept of Law of Nature ( Editor) Springer 2022

David Head is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Philosophy at the Hebrew University.

His areas of specialization are ethics, political philosophy, applied ethics, and bioethics.

From his books:

Genetics (California, 1992), Toleration (editor, Princeton, 1996), Supererogation (Cambridge, 1982)

Winner of the 2017 A.M.T Prize in Philosophy.

Dr. Daniel A. Di Liscia

– History of Renaissance and Early Modern Science: Emphasis on Cosmology (esp. Johannes Kepler).

– Late Medieval History of Science and Philosophy: Emphasis on Aristotelian Physics and the calculators tradition.

• Eine Wiener Expositiozum Tractatus de latitudinibus formarum. Edition und Kommentar.  Wien: Böhlau Verlag, 2022. [Quelleneditionen des Österreichischen Instituts für Geschichtsforschung. Bd. 20.]
• Daniel A. Di Liscia & Edith D. Sylla (eds.), Quantifying Aristotle. The Impact, Spread and Decline of the CalculatoresLeiden: Brill, 2022. [Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy and Science 34], in collaboration with P. J.J.M. Bakker.
• Daniel A. Di Liscia (ed.), The concept of Motion in Late Medieval Philosophy. Revista Española de Filosofiía, Special Issue N^o29/1. 2022 (including: “The Concept of Motion in Jacques Legrand’s Philosophical Compendium”,  199-233).
• “Johannes Kepler”, in: The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Edward N. Zalta (ed.), first publ. 2011 (substantive correction 2015; minor corrections 2016, 2017, 2019, 2021). https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/kepler/
• “Johannes Kepler, Manuscripta Pneumatica (Edition und Kommentar)”, Johannes Kepler. Gesammelte Werke, vol. XXI.2.1, München: Beck Verlag, 2009, pp. 512-47; pp. 667-691.

Currently Preparing for Publication: Critical edition of Jacobus of Naples’ De Perfectione Specierum and of Jacques Legrand’s Compendium Utriusque Philosophie.

For further information, see: https://www.mcmp.philosophie.uni-muenchen.de/people/faculty/di_liscia_daniel/index.html

Digital culture and multi sensory experience

Interdisciplinary collaboration and cross-cultural contexts in design

Scientists and designers collaboration on visual material

Design and visualisation’s  opportunities for public engagement with scientific ideas and phenomena

Digital environment as the testing ground both for science and art, where evolution of a human and society takes place:

• sensory sensations transformation,
• learning to navigate in virtual environments
• social and ethical challenges emerging from digital spaces,
• agency within digital landscape,
• the ability to effect positive change in the individuals and infrastructures.
• digital environments in education and research as tools for academic purposes,  social interaction, creative practices.

My work focuses on decision theory, epistemology and normative reasons. My dissertation explores issues in moral uncertainty and the theory of reasons.

My current research project is about the prevalence of Bullshit (in the technical, Frankfurtian, sense) in social media. It aims to explain the emergence of this phenomenon and explore its ethical implications.

I specialise in normative and applied ethics, and I’m currently conducting research on the “LLMs and a Well-Rounded Approach to Human Flourishing” project.

Before this, I was a postdoctoral fellow at University College London (UCL), where I also completed a PhD in philosophy. My doctoral research was primarily on what is known as “the numbers problem”, defending a pro tanto rational requirement to save the greater number.

I’m currently interested in a range of ethical issues, including the ethics of AI, moral aggregation, moral uncertainty, the demands of beneficence, the ethics of procreation, and the philosophical foundations of effective altruism.

I specialise in Early Modern philosophy and have research interests in Feminist philosophy.

I was awarded a PhD in philosophy in October 2023 for my thesis Between Leibniz and Spinoza: Individuals, Naturalism and Ethics.

I am currently continuing my research on Leibniz’s philosophy of nature.

Mt study aims to explore the experiences and challenges faced by female professors in West Africa and the Middle East, shedding light on the unique gender-related issues within academia in these regions.

By investigating the influence of gender on academic writing, particularly in the context of West Africa and the Middle East, this research seeks to uncover how gender dynamics shape scholarly communication.

Through examining strategies employed by female academics, this study aims to reveal effective approaches for overcoming gender-based barriers, contributing to a better understanding of how women navigate their academic careers in these regions.