Junior Fellowships 2023–24: Call for Applications
The Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies (MCAS) at Universität Hamburg would like to invite researchers to apply for its junior fellowship programme for the academic year 1 October 2023 to 30 September 2024.
Call for Applications
Doctoral Fellowships
Postdoctoral Fellowships
1 October 2023 to 30 September 2024
Application Deadline: 31 January 2023
The Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies (MCAS) at Universität Hamburg would like to invite researchers to apply for its junior fellowship programme for the academic year 1 October 2023 to 30 September 2024.
The Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies at Universität Hamburg
The Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies is a Humanities Research Institute at Universität Hamburg led by Prof. Dr Giuseppe Veltri and funded by the German Research Foundation. MCAS’s central aim is to explore and research scepticism in Judaism in its dual manifestation as both a purely philosophical tradition and a more general expression of sceptical strategies, concepts, and attitudes in the cultural field.
Topic: (Jewish) Scepticism as a Strategy and Challenge in Past and Present
Though scepticism is often discussed as the philosophical doctrine that we cannot have knowledge about a specific domain, it can also be taken in a much broader sense. According to this broader conception, scepticism is a general attitude to life and enquiry that comes with a range of different tactics and strategies. A sceptic in this broader sense questions and attacks all dogmatic convictions by pointing out their dependence on dubious assumptions or their reliance on fragile and vulnerable methods of argumentation.