משתמש:Zmirar/טיוטה

ימימה בן מנחם (נולדה בירושלים, ל' כסלו תש"ז, 23 בדצמבר 1946) היא פרופ' אמריטוס בחוג לפילוסופיה ובתכנית להיסטוריה ופילוסופיה של המדע, באוניברסיטה העברית בירושלים.

קורות חיים

1970: B.Sc. Physics and Mathematics (The Hebrew University)

1973: M.Sc. Philosophy of Science (The Hebrew University)

Thesis: The Statistical Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics

1080-81: Lady Davis Fellowship, Visiting Scholar Department of Philosophy, Harvard University

1983: Ph.D. (The Hebrew University) Dissertation: Paradoxes and Intuitions.

Supervisors: Hilary Putnam, Harvard University, Mark Steiner, The Hebrew University

1984-7: Alon Fellowship

1987-8: Sabbatical, Stanford University

1989: Senior Lecturer, Tenure, The Hebrew University

1997: Associate Professor

2000-2001: Senior Fellow, The Dibner Institute MIT, Cambridge MA.

2003-4: Sabbatical, Harvard University

2006: Professor of Philosophy

2013: Sabbatical, Sydney University

2005-2013: Director: The Edelstein Center for the History and Philosophy of Science, The Hebrew

University;

2014: retired

2004 -- - Board member: The Einstein Papers Project, Princeton University Press

2007: Curator (with M. Feingold and S. Snobelen) of the exhibition Newton’s Secrets at The National

Library Jerusalem

2010 -- -Member of the Editorial Board of HOPOS, The University of Chicago Press

2012 -- - Member of the Editorial Board of The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science

רשימת פרסומים

1. Ph.D. dissertation: Paradoxes and Intuitions

Supervisors: Hilary Putnam, Harvard University

Mark Steiner, The Hebrew University

Approved (1983), unpublished

Books

2. Conventionalism, Cambridge University Press (2006)

Conventionalism Cambridge University Press Paperback (2012)

Books edited

3. (With Meir Hemmo) Probability in Physics, Springer, Frontiers in Science Series (2011)

4. Contemporary Philosophy in Focus: Hilary Putnam, Cambridge University Press, (2005)

Contemporary Philosophy in Focus: Hilary Putnam Cambridge University Press Paperback

(2006).

5. Guest Editor (with Le Corry and Carl Posy) Mathematical Knowledge and its Applications,

Special Issue, Iyyun 61 (2012)

6. Guest Editor: Special Issue, Iyyun 56 (2007) (In memory of Mara Beller)

7. Guest Editor (with Itamar Pitowsky) The Conceptual Foundations of Statistical Physics,

Special Issue, Studies in the History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 32 (2001).

8. Guest Editor (with Adi. Ophir) Models of Critique in Science, Society and Art,

Special Issue, Science in Context 10, (1997).

Papers in books and collections.

9. “Borges on Replication and Concept Formation” forthcoming in: Stepping in the Same

River with Yale University Press (2016)

רשימת פרסומים בשנים האחרונות טקסט מחוק

59. “The Causal Family: Causal constraints in Physics” SSRN (2013)

60. (Hebrew) Selected Topics in the Philosophy of Science, Everyman's

University, Tel Aviv (1980), 150 pp.

61. Editor: Catalogue of Exhibition: Newton’s Secrets (Hebrew and English) The Jewish

National and University Library (2007)

62. Review of Quantum Theory and the Flight from Realism by Christopher Norris Routledge

(1999) in Studies in the History and Philosopy of Modern Physics 33 (2002) 587-591.

63. Review of Schrodinger's Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics by Michel Bitbol in: Isis 91

(2000) 187-188.

Founding the periodical Aleph: Historical Studies in Science and Judaism

Aleph 1 appeared in (2001) Aleph 15 is now in the press

Selected Conferences -- Organizer

Spacetime Theories: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives Jerusalem, January 5-8 (2015)

Between Physics and Biology: Reduction and Emergence (with Arnon Levy) Jerusalem and

Tel-Aviv, December (2012).

Mathematical Knowledge and its Application (with Leo Corry and Carl Posy) Jerusalem and

Tel-Aviv December (2011)

The Meaning and Role of Probability in Physics (with Meir Hemmo) Jerusalem December

(2008)

The Fact/Value Dichotomy, with Alfred Tauber and Juliet Floyd, TheBoston Colloquium for

the Philosophy of Science, Boston October (2003).

The Conceptual Foundations of Statistical Mechanics, with Itamar Pitowsky, Jerusalem, May

(2000).