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Samuel Scolnicov                   שמואל שקולניקוב

Department of Philosophy and School of Education

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

 

List of Publications

(updated 15.10.13)

 

1. Doctoral dissertation

 

            (1974) Plato’s Method of Hypothesis in the Middle Dialogues. Supervisor: Prof. Bernard Williams. University of Cambridge.

 

2. Books

 

1          (1981) A Short History of Greek Philosophy: The Pre-Socratic philosophers. 221 pp. Yahdav, Tel-Aviv. (Hebrew)

 

2          (1988) Heraclitus and Parmenides: Testimonia and fragments. Introductions, Hebrew translation and notes. 265 pp. Bialik Institute, Jerusalem.

 

3         (1988) Plato’s Metaphysics of Education. 157 pp. Routledge, London and New York.

 

4          (1994) Essência e Existência: Oito palestras sobre a filosofia grega e a filosofia medieval judaica88 pp. Perspectiva, São Paulo.

 

5          (2003)  Plato’s Parmenides. Introduction, English translation and commentary . x + 193 pp. University of California Press, Berkeley.

 

6          (2006) Platão e o Problema Educacional (Plato and the Problem of Education). Edições Loyola, S. Paulo.

 

7          (2008) Method and Idea: Twenty-eight studies in Plato  Magnes, Jerusalem. (Hebrew).

            (A collection of articles previously published in Hebrew and in other languages.)

 

8          (2013) Euthydemus: Ethics and language.. Lecturae Platonis 5 (2011). Academia Verlag, St. Augustin.

 

 

3. Books edited

 

1          (1963) C. Rabin, Biblical Hebrew Syntax. Mif’al Haschichpul, Jerusalem.123 pp.  (Hebrew)

 

2          (1964) P. Haezrahi, On the Perfect Being. Mif’al Haschichpul and the Faculty of Humanities of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. 399 pp. (Hebrew)

 

3          (1974) Iyyun 24In memoriam P. Haezrahi. (Hebrew)

 

4          (1975) S. Rivière, Studies in Greek Philosophy. Ed. by M. Brinker, S. Pines and S. Scolnicov. Magnes, Jerusalem. 125 pp. (Hebrew)

 

5          (1980) I. Scheffler, Conditions of Knowledge. Hebrew tr. by D. Heyd; philosophical revision by  S. Scolnicov. The School of Education of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. 172 pp.

 

6          (1987–8) The Israeli General Encyclopedia. Philosophy editor. Keter, Jerusalem. 4 vols. (Hebrew)

 

7          (1992) Aristotle, Metaphysics Book I. Tr. into Hebrew by Leon Roth, revised by S. Scolnicov. Magnes, Jerusalem. 98 pp.

 

8          (1996) Education for Critical Thinking. Ed. and tr. by Y. HarpazPE, Scientific advisor: S. Scolnicov. Magnes and Branco Weiss Institute, Jerusalem. 144 pp. (Hebrew)

           

9          (2001) Crossroads: Values and Education in Israeli Society. Ed. by Y. IramPES. Scolnicov, J. Cohen and E.P. Schachter. Ministry of Education, Jerusalem. 723 pp. (Hebrew)

 

10        (2001) Greek PhilosophyVol 4: A collection of essays. Ed. by S. ScolnicovPE and E. Weinryb. The Open University of Israel, Tel-Aviv. 247 pp. (Hebrew)

 

11        (2002) New Images of Plato: Dialogues on the Idea of the Good. Ed. by G. Reale and S. ScolnicovPE. Academia Verlag, St. Augustin. 444 pp.

 

12        (2003) Plato’s Laws: Political theory into practice. Ed. by S. Scolnicov and L. Brisson. International Plato Studies. Academia Verlag, St. Augustin. 365 pp.

 

 

4. Chapters in collections

 

1          (1977) The simile of the large and small letters. In: The Just and the Unjust, ed. by A. Kasher and M. Dascal, pp. 79–83. Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv. (Hebrew)

 

2          (1978) Truth, neutrality and the philosophy teacher. In: Growing Up with Philosophy, ed. by M. Lipman and A.M. Sharp, pp. 392–404. Temple University Press, Philadelphia.

 

3          (1981) The true political man: Socrates on knowledge and politics, in: The Humanist as Citizen: Essays in memory of Charles Frankel, ed. by J. Agresto and P. Riesenberg, pp. 26–34. University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill.

 

4          (1982) Socrate: La conoscenza e la politica. In: Atti dell’Istituto Universitario Orientale. Napoli. (Italian)

           

5          (1983) Eraclito e la preistoria del principio di non-contraddizione. In: Atti del Symposium Heracliteum 1981, ed. by L. Rossetti, pp. 97–110. Edizioni dell’ Ateneo, Roma.

 

6          (1985) Learning rules and learning concepts. In: School and Education: Essays in honor of Seymour Fox, ed. by Z. Lamm, pp. 257–264. The School of Education of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. (Hebrew)

 

7          (1988) Maimonide et le Dieu des philosophes. In:  Individu et société: L’influence d’Aristote dans le monde méditerranéen, ed. by T. Zarcone, pp. 77–82. Editions Isis, Istanbul and Paris.

 

8a        (1991) ‘To me, Callicles, he seems exceedingly in earnest’: On taking Socratic irony seriously. In: The Philosophy of Socrates, ed. by C. Boudouris, pp. 324–332. International Center for Greek Philosophy, Athens.

           

8b        (1991) The seriousness of Socratic irony, Iyyun 40:137–149. (Hebrew)

 

9          (1992) What is Pythagoras doing in Plato’s Parmenides? In: Pythagorean Philosophy, ed. by C. Boudouris, pp. 195–204. International Center for Greek Philosophy, Athens.

           

10        (1993) What is education? In: In memoriam Zvi Adar, 5–12. The School of Education of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. (Hebrew)

 

11        (1994) Grace, justice and weakness of the will: Religion and philosophy in Maimonides. In: Between Religion and Ethics, ed. by D. Stetman and A. Sagi, pp. 157–170. Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan. (Hebrew)

 

12        (1994) Derrida’s drug and Plato’s antidote: Socratic dialogues as moral philosophy. In: Reflective Commitment: Essays in literature and moral philosophy, ed. by L. Toker, pp. 3–23.

 

13        (1995) Le parricide déguisé: Platon contre Parménide (The disguised parricide: Plato against Parmenides). In:Contre Platon II: Renverser le platonisme, ed. by M. Dixsaut, pp. 215–234. J. Vrin, Paris.

 

14a      (1995) On humanism. In: The Role and Place of the Humanities in Education, ed. by Y. Iram, pp. 599–606. Bar-Ilan University and the World Association for Educational Research, Ramat-Gan.

 

14b      (1996) On humanism. In: Moulding and Rehabilitation: Papers in memory of Prof. Akiva Ernst Simon and Prof. Carl Frankenstein (1996), ed. by Z. Lamm, pp. 303–318. The School of Education, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.(Hebrew)

 

15        (1996) Humanistic education as total education. In: Educational policy planning, ed. Y. Danilov, pp. 63–81. Ministry of Education and Culture, Jerusalem. (Hebrew)

 

16a      (1996) The private and public logos. In: The Philosophy of the Logos, ed. by C. Boudouris, pp.196–204. International Society for Greek Philosophy, Athens.

 

16b      (1996) The private logos and the public logos: Philosophy and the other in Greek thought until Socrates, Iyyun45:463–470. (Hebrew version)

 

16c      (2000) Si_ré de he gōnggòng de lúokési: qián sūx_là si_xiăng zhōng de zhésué xie* geti* (The private and public logos: Philosophy and the individual in Greek thought until Socrates). In: Xi_fāng zhéxué jiăngyănlù (Western Philosophy), ed. by Li Chaojie, pp. 1–11. Peking University, Beijing. (Chinese translation by Li Chaojie)

           

17        (1996) The ‘bookcase’ of the Jewish humanist. In: Judaism and Humanism, pp. 53–61. Ministry of Education and  School of Education, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. (Hebrew)

           

18        (1997)  S. ScolnicovPA, N. Gover and I. Soreq, Teacher education as total humanistic  education. In: Educational Policy Planning: Position papers 1995–1996, ed. Y. Danilov, vol. 2, pp. 125–136. Ministry of Education and Culture, Jerusalem. (Hebrew)

 

19        (1997) Freedom and education in Plato’s Timaeus. In: Interpreting the Timaeus/Critias, ed. by T. Calvo and L. Brisson, 363–374. International Plato Studies. Academia Verlag, S. Augustin.

 

20        (1997) ‘And if not — to be put over him from without’: The Socratic roots of Plato’s violence of reason. In: Plato’s Political Philosophy, ed. C. Boudouris, vol. 2, pp. 175–181. International Society for Greek Philosophy, Athens.

 

21        (1998) The contribution of the study of philosophy in high-schools to education for democracy. In: Philosophie et democratie en Europe, pp. 155–163. Commission nationale de la Bulgarie pour UNESCO, Sophia.

 

22        (1998) Plato: Diseases of the soul, diseases of the body. In: Philosophy and Medicine, ed. by C.  Boudouris, vol. 2, pp. 198–205. International Society for Greek Philosophy, Athens.

 

23        (1998) Plato and modern education. In: Plato’s Philosophy of Education and Its Relevance to Contemporary Society, ed. by J.D. Gericke and P.J. Maritz, pp. 457–465. The South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, Pretoria.

           

24a      (1998) Plato on education as the development of reason. In ΠΑΙΔΕΙΑ: 20th World Congress of Philosophy.http://www.bu.edu/wcp/Papers/Anci/AnciScol.htm

 

24b      (1999) Plato: Education as the development of reason. In: Education and History: Cultural and political contexts, ed. by R. Feldhai and I. Etkes, pp. 23–32. Zalman Shazar Centre for the History of Israel, Jerusalem. (Hebrew)

 

 

25       (1998) Plato against tragedy. In: Greek Philosophy and the Arts, ed. by C. Boudouris. International Society for Greek Philosophy, Athens.

           

26a      (1999) A anamnese e a estrutura das idéias: O Teeteto e o Parmênides. In: Anamnese e Saber, ed. by J.G. Trindade Santos, pp. 172–200. Imprensa Nacional — Casa da Moeda, Lisboa.

 

26b      (2005) Anamnèse et structure des idées dans le Théétète et dans le Parménide. In: La philosophie de Platon, vol. 2, ed. by Michel Fattal. L’Harmattan, Paris, 139-158.

 

27a      (2000). Rúhédú băilátú de dùihuà (How to read a platonic dialogue). In: Xi_fāng zhéxué jiăngyănlù (Western Philosophy), ed. by Li Chaojie, pp. 12–25. Peking University, Beijing. (Chinese tr. by Li Chaojie.)

 

27b      (2003) Como ler um diálogo platônico, Hypnos 11: Platão, Ética e Conhecimento II, pp. 49-59.

 

27c      (2010) Comment lire un dialogue de Platon. In: Aglaïa. Autour de Platon, Mélanges offerts à Monique Dixsaut, ed. A.Brancacci, D. El Murr et D.P. Taormina. Bibliothèque d’Histoire de la Philosophie. Vrin, Paris, pp. 83-91.

 

 

28        (2000) Direitos e o conceito de pessoa moral: As raízes judaicas. In: Direitos Humanos no Limiar do Século XXI: Os judeus, ed. by A. Novinsky. Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo.

 

29        (2000) Euthydemus’ philosophy of language. In: Plato’s Lysis, Charmides, Euthydemus, ed. by T.M. Robinson and L. Brisson, pp. 115–122. International Plato Studies. Academia Verlag, St. Augustin.

 

30        (2001) Samuel ScolnicovPE and I. Soreq, Values. In: [3.8] Crossroads: Values and Education in Israeli Society(2001), ed. by Y. IramPE, S. Scolnicov, J. Cohen and E.P. Schachter, pp. 9–38. Ministry of Education, Jerusalem. (Hebrew)

 

31        (2001) Truth and faith: Pluralistic value education. In: [3.8] Crossroads: Values and Education in Israeli Society(2001), ed. by Y. IramPES. Scolnicov, J. Cohen and E.P. Schachter, pp. 702–715. Ministry of Education, Jerusalem. (Hebrew)

 

32        (2003) New images of Plato. In: [3.11] New Images of Plato: Dialogues on the Idea of the Good, ed. by G. Reale and S. Scolnicov, pp. 15–25. Academia Verlag, St. Augustin.

 

33        (2003) Pleasure and responsibility in Plato’s Laws. In: [3.12] Plato’s Laws: Political Philosophy into Practice, ed. by S. Scolnicov and L. Brisson. International Plato Studies. Academia Verlag, St. Augustin.

           

34        (2004) Plato’s ethics of irony. In: Plato ethicus, ed. by M. Migliori. Academia Verlag, St. Augustin.

 

             

35        (2005) The conditions of knowledge.  in Plato’s Parmenides. In: Parmenides, ed. Aleš Havliček. Oikoumene, Prague.

 

36        (2007) Wyller's henological interpretation of the ParmenidesAfterword to the 2nd ed. of Egil A.Wyller, Platons Parmenides in seinem Zusammenhang Symposium und Politeia: Intrepretationen zur Platonischen Henologie. Königshausen & Neumann, Hamburg. 221-225. (Die Norwegische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Oslo, 1960.)

 

37        (2008) Autonomy and humanistic education (Response to Ilan Gur-Zeev). In Autonomy and education: Critical aspects, ed. Sheila Scheinberg. Resling, Tel-Aviv. (Hebrew).

 

38        (2010) Plato’s use of irony. In: Philosophy and dialogue: Studies on Plato’s dialogues, vol. 2, ed. by Antoni Bosch-Veciana and Josep Monserrat-Molas. Barcelonesa d’Edicions – Societat Catlana de Filosofia.

 

39        Epicurus: The art of the good life. In Epicurus,  Hebrew tr. Nahar Books. (Hebrew)

 

40        The centre point. Mandel Institute. (Hebrew)

 

41        (2012) Time, man and God: Father Dubois’ Aristotle. In: Le chrétien poète de sion: In memoriam Marcel-Jacuqes Dubois, ed. A. Wohlman, Yossef Schwartz. The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute / Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House, Tel-Aviv, 71-76. (Hebrew)

 

42        (forthcoming)Atemporal teleology in Plato, Teleology, ed. Julius Rocca

 

 

5. Articles

 

1a        (1969) On the epistemological significance of Plato’s theory of ideal numbers, Iyyun 20:186–210. (Hebrew)

 

1b        (1971) On the epistemological significance of Plato’s theory of ideal numbers, Museum Helveticum 28:72–92.

 

2          (1971) Towards a new formulation of the problem of semantic fields and tropes, Lešonenu 35:254–271. (Hebrew)

 

3          (1971) On education and non-education, Megamot 17:311–320. (Hebrew)

 

4         (1973) Gorgias, or on the absolute scepticism of P. Haezrahi, Iyyun 24:1–9. (Hebrew)

 

5          (1973) Plato on A and not-A, Iyyun 24:217–226. (Hebrew)

 

6          (1974) Philosophy studies in high-school, Iyyunim be-Hinuch 5:119–24. (Hebrew)

 

7          (1975) Plato’s Phaedo as an example of the hypothetical method, Eshkolot 7:45–64. (Hebrew)

 

8          (1975) Philebus 15B1–8, Scripta Classica Israelica 1:3–13.

 

9a        (1975) Hypothetical method and rationality in Plato, Kant-Studien 66:157–162.

 

9b        (1975) Hypothetical method and rationality in Plato.  In: The Rational and the Irrational, ed. by M. Dascal and A. Parush, pp. 123–128. Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva. (Hebrew).

 

10        (1976) Three aspects of Plato’s philosophy of learning and instruction, Paideia 5:50–62. Plato issue.

 

11a      (1977) Razão e emoção na psicologia platônica, Revista latinoamericana de filosofia 3:145–158.

 

11b      (1978) Reason and passion in the platonic soul, Dionysus 2:35–48.

 

12        (1978) Changing the concept of conceptual change, Philosophy of Education 1978, pp. 259–266.

 

13a      (1981) Perfection and its image: Nature and reason in Plato’s TimaeusIyyun 30:227–260. (Hebrew)

 

13b      (1982) An image of perfection: The good and the rational in Plato’s material universe,  Revue de philosophie ancienne 9:35–67.

 

14        (1982) Plato’s Euthydemus: A study on the relations between logic and education, Scripta Classica Israelica 6:19–29.

 

15        (1983) Dilemas de la universidad moderna. CINTERPLAN, Caracas.

 

16        (1983) Knowledge and opinion in Plato’s RepublicIyyun 32:230–239. (Hebrew)

 

17a      (1984) Il Parmenide di Platone: Prolegomini ad una re-interpretazione, Symbolon 1Momenti e Problemi di Storia del Platonismo, ed. F. Romano, pp. 9–36.

 

17b      (1984) Plato’s Parmenides: Prolegomena to a new interpretation, Iyyun 33:459–479. (Hebrew)

 

18        (1986) I searched myself (Heraclitus 101 DK), Scripta Classica Israelica 7:1–12.

 

19        (1986) Socrates on the unity of the person, Scripta Classica Israelica 7:13–25.

 

20        (1986) ‘All is a name’: Parmenides on language and the world, Iyyun 35:90–100. (Hebrew)

 

21        (1988) The curriculum and the democratic idea, Iyyunim Behinuch 19. (Hebrew)

 

22        (1990) The logical and the psychological in Plato, Hermatena 149The Heritage of Platonism, pp. 7–17.

 

23        (1992) Love and the method of hypothesis, Méthexis 5:69–77.

 

24        (1993) Friends and friendship in Plato:Some remarks on the LysisScripta Classica Israelica 12:67–74.

 

25      (1994) Socrates, Plato and the development of reason: A rejoinder to Professor Sichel, Studies in Philosophy and Education 13:177–184.

 

26a      (1996) Is education for pluralism incompatible with real disagreement? In: Education and Change, eds. J.H. Coetzee and T.G. Smith, pp. 59–64. University of South Africa, Pretoria.

 

26b      (1999) Ist eine Erziehung zum Pluralismus unvereinbar mit realer Nichtübereinstimmung? Toleranz, Minderheiten, Dialog. Teil II. Mitteilungen des Instituts für Wissenschaft und Kunst 54.1:27–32. (German tr. by F. Wimmer.)

        

26c      (2000) How is an education for pluralism compatible with real disagreement? In: Education for culure ina multi-cultural society. Issues in teachers' continuing education IX, ed. Miraim Barlev, pp. 31-40. Jerusalem: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, School of Education.

 

27        (1997) Prophetic parables and philosophic falsehoods, Scripta Classica Israelica 16:227–238.

 

28        (1998) A opinião do outro: Os gregos e os judeus, Nova Renascença 18.69–71A Diáspora Judia, ed. by A. Novinsky, pp. 153–169.

 

29a      (1999) A problemática comunidade de investigação: Sócrates e Kant sobre Lipman e Dewey. In: Filosofia para Crianças em Debate, ed. by W.O. Kohan and B. Leal, pp. 89–96. Vozes, Petrópolis.

 

29b       (2000) The problematic community of inquiry: Socrates and Kant on Lipman and Dewey, Thinking 15:41-45.

 

30        (2003) ‘Things worth wondering at’:Sandra Peterson’s ParmenidesThe New Schoolman 30: 279–287.

 

31              (2004) The two faces of Platonic knowledge, Plato: The internet journal of the International Plato Society 4.www.nd.edu/~plato

 

32a      (2004) Platão contra o atomismo lógico, Veritas 49:641-652

 

32b      (2005) Plato against logical atomism, Iyyun 54: 363-374 (Hebrew).

 

32 c     (forthcoming) Plato against logical atomism. In: Festschrift Jan Wolenski, ed. Jan Hartmann. Krakow. (Tr. of  5.32)

 

33                    (2004) Review of G.J  Reydams-Schils, ed., Plato’s Timaeus as Cultural Icon (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press). The Classical Review, 54: 317-320.

 

34        (2005) Posmodernismo y responsabilidad, El Olivo 29:267-273.

 

35        (2005) Plato on language and doxa Ordia Prima 4:75-87.

 

36        (2006) Review of Christopher Bobonich, Plato’s utopia recast: His later ethics and politics  (Oxford: Clarendon Press).The European Legacy 11:557–598.

 

37                    (2006) Tempo e educação em Platão, (Time and education in Plato),  Hypnos 17O Tempo, 1-13.

 

38        (2011) You can because you ought, Hed Hahunuch 85 (Hebrew)

 

39        (2011) After irony: Reading Plato seriously, Arctos, Acta Philologica Fenica 45, 123-131

 

40        (2012) Review of Stephen G. Miller, The Berkeley Plato: From neglected relic to ancient treasure. An archaeological detective story. (Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 2009), The European Legacy17

 

41        (2012) Man creates worlds, Hed Hahincuh 86:100-96 (Hebrew)

 

42        (2012) On the rational and the not rational in education,  Hahinuch, ‘Great educationalists’, Plato, 40-43 (Hebrew).

 

43        (2013) Positive educational sins: Review of Israel Scheffler, The question of education A collecrion of articles, tr. A. Zuckerman, Y. Farkas, A. Katzman (Jerusalem: Mandel, 2011), Gilui Da’at 14: 153-153. (Hebrew)

 

44        Review of Holger Thesleff, Platonic patterns: A collection of studies (Las Vegas/Zurich/Athens: Parmenides Publishing, 2009. Paperback, xviii+623 pp. ISBN 978-1-930972-29-2.

 

45        Review of Ehrenberg From Solon to Socrates: Greek History and Civilization during the Sixth and Fifth Centuries B.C.  By Victor Ehrenberg (London: Routledge, 2011), xxviii + 401 pp. £14.99 paper.

 

46        (1998) Distortion and miscomprehension: On Dudi Mahlev, ‘A retardation-causing theory’ (Haaretz, 15.7.97), ‘Alalei hinuch 2.

 

47        (1998) Plato and modern education. In: Plato’s philosophy of education and its relevance to contemporary societyand Eduication in the ancient world . Proceedings of the First Internartional Conference of the South African Society of Greek Philosophy and the Humanities 29 April – 6 May 1997, ed. J.D. Gericke and P,J, Maritz.

 

48        (2007) How do we know a good deed? Einaim 85:15-17. (Hebrew)

 

49        (forthcoming) Maimônides e o Deus dos Filósofos, filosofia medieval, ed. Rosalie Pereira

 

50        (forthcoming) Man asks questions

 

51        Review of Moore (K.R.) Plato, Politics and a Practical Utopia. Social Constructivism and Civic Planning in the Laws. Pp. x + 133. London and New York: Continuum, 2012. Cased, ₤60. ISBN: 978-1-4411-5317-3.

 

52.       (2013) As grandes revoluções no judaísmo, WebMosaica 5:10-14. www.seer.ufrgs.br/webmosaica.

 

 

 

6. Text-books

 

1-4       Samuel ScolnicovPA and Elazar Weinryb, Greek Philosophy. The Open University of Israel, Tel-Aviv. (Hebrew)

                      Vol 1: (1997) Before Socrates. 134 pp.

                      Vol 2: (1997) Socrates and Plato. 367 pp.

                      Vol 3: (1998) Aristotle. 301 pp.

                      Vol 4: (2001) A Collection of essays

 

 

7. Edited text-books

 

1-6               Sources for the Study of Philosophy in High School. Texts, notes and questions. The School of Education, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and the Ministry of Education and Culture. (Hebrew):

 

                       (1977) What Is Philosophy. Ed. by Y. Ben-ShlomoPE, D. Heyd and S. Scolnicov. 53 pp.

 

                       (1978). Ethics. Ed. by Y. Ben-ShlomoD. Heyd, Y. Ofrat and S. ScolnicovPE. 99 pp.

 

                      (1979) Theory of Knowledge. Ed. by Y. Ben-Shlomo, M. Binnenstock, D. Heyd, S. ScolnicovPE and E. Yakira. 136 pp.

 

                       (1984) Political Philosophy. Ed. by M. Binnenstock, D. Heyd, S. ScolnicovPE and E. Yakira.145 pp.

 

                      (1986) Aesthetics. Ed. by D. Heyd, Y. Mathias, R. Shusterman and S. ScolnicovPE. 88 pp.

 

                      (1995) Philosophy of Religion. Ed. by D. Heyd, Y. Mathias, S. ScolnicovPE and E. Yakira. 124 pp.

 

                      (1996) Philosophy for the Upper Grades of State High School:Teacher’s Guide.  Ed. by M. Binnenstock, D. Heyd, Y. Mathias, S. ScolnicovPE and O. Schwarz. The School of Education, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and the Ministry of Education and Culture. 130 pp.

 

 

 

8. Entries in Encyclopedias

 

1                    Hebrew Encyclopedia. Entries: Catharsis, Celsus, Clemens of Alexandria, Cosmology and cosmogony in Greek philosophy, Critias, Cynics, Cyrenaic school,  Parmenides, Plotinus, Prodicus, Pythagoras of Samos and Pythagoreans, Thales, Themistius, Theophrastus, Therapeuts, Zeller (Eduard). (Hebrew)

 

2                    (1996) Plato. In: Philosophy of Education: An Encyclopedia, ed. by J.J. Chambliss, pp. 483–489. Garland, New York.

 

3                    (1998) Education. In: Lexicon of Education and Teaching, ed. by Y. Kashti, M. Arieli and S. Shleski. Ramot, Tel-Aviv. (Hebrew)

 

4                    (2004) Plato. In: Encyclopedia of children and childhood in history and society, ed. in chief Paula S. Fass. Macmillan, New York . 2: 681-682.

 

                      (forthcoming) Plato. In: Encyclpedia of Theory and Philosophy of Education

 

 

9. Papers in conferences and invited lectures

 

            The First Israel Philosophical Conference. Beer-Sheva, 1973

                    Rationality and irrationality in Plato (Hebrew)

 

            The Annual Conference of the Association for the Promotion of Classical Studies in  Israel. Tel-Aviv, 1974

                      Reason and emotion in the platonic soul (Hebrew)

 

            The Second Israel Philosophical Conference. Tel-Aviv, 1975

                      The simile of the large and small letters (Hebrew)

 

            Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, 1975

                      Razão e emoção na psicologia platônica

 

            National Endowment for the Humanities Seminar for School Administrators. Harvard University, 1975

                      Kant’s Two Worlds

 

            The Annual Conference of the Association for the Promotion of Classical Studies in  Israel. Jerusalem, 1977

                      Heraclitus and Parmenides: The pre-history of the Principle of Non-contradiction (Hebrew)

 

            Centenary Symposium on Martin Buber. Harvard and MIT Hillels and Harvard Center for the Study of World Religions, 1978

                      Buber on education

 

             The Philip W. Lown Lecture Series in Jewish Education. Hebrew College, Brookline, Mass., 1978

                      Moral autonomy and Jewishness

 

            34th Annual Meeting of the Philosophy of Education Society, Indianapolis, 1978

                      Changing the concept of conceptual change

 

            National Humanities Center, North Carolina, 1979

                      An image of perfection: the good and the rational in Plato’s material universe

 

            Annual Meeting, North Carolina Philosophical Society, 1979

                      Heraclitus and Parmenides: Notes to a pre-history of the Principle of Non-contradiction

 

            The Sixth Israel Philosophical Conference. Beer-Sheva, 1979

                      The ungrudging god: Reason and necessity in Plato’s Timaeus (Hebrew)

 

            The Annual Conference of the Association for the Promotion of Classical Studies in  Israel. Jerusalem, 1979

                      Plato’s Euthydemus: A study on the relation of logic and education (Hebrew)

 

            Symposium Heracliteum. Università di Chieti, 1981

                      Eraclito e il Principio di non-contraddizione

 

            The Annual Conference of the Association for the Promotion of Classical Studies in  Israel. Tel-Aviv, 1981

                      I searched myself (Heraclitus 101 DK)

 

            Istituto Universitario Orientale. Napoli, 1982

                      Socrate: La conoscenza e la politica

 

.           Seminario sobre Educación y Futuro. CINTERPLAN, Santiago de Chile

                      Dilemas de la universidad moderna

 

            The Annual Conference of the Association for the Promotion of Classical Studies in  Israel. Tel-Aviv, 1983

                      Socrates on the unity of the person

 

            The Annual Conference of the Israeli Association for Education Research. Jerusalem, 1983

                      Learning rules and learning concepts (Hebrew)

 

            Università di Catania, Sicily, 1984

                      Introduzione alla storia della filosofia ebraica nel medioevo

 

            The Annual Conference of the Association for the Promotion of Classical Studies in  Israel. Tel-Aviv, 1985

                      Friends and friendship in Plato’s Lysis (Hebrew)

 

            The Eleventh Israel Philosophical Conference, Haifa, 1985

                      Education and knowledge in Plato’s Protagoras (Hebrew)

 

            Conférence Permanente Méditerranéenne pour la Coopération Internationale:

                      Individu et société: L’influence d’Aristote dans le monde méditerranéen. Istanbul, 1986

                      Maimonide et le Dieu des philosophes: Observations sur l’aristotélisation de la morale biblique

 

            Università degli studi di Genova, 1987

                      Un’imagine della perfezione: Il bene e il razionale nel Timeo di Platone

 

            Università degli studi di Padova, 1987

                      Il parricidio nascosto: Parmenide 137–147

 

            The Annual Conference of the Association for the Promotion of Classical Studies in  Israel. Jerusalem, 1987

                      Love and the perfection of the individual in Plato (Hebrew)

           

            The Thirteenth Israel Philosophical Conference. Tel-Aviv, 1987

                      Theaetetus, or On recollection (Hebrew)

 

            Universidade de São Paulo, 1988

                      Essência e existência: Oito palestras sobre a filosofia grega e a filosofia medieval do judaismo

 

            Halbert Lecture, University of Toronto, 1989

                      Maimonides and the God of the philosophers: Some further reflections on the aristotelization of Biblical morality

 

            The B Club, University of Cambridge, 1989

                      Parmenides and Plato’s Parmenides

 

            II Symposium Platonicum. Perugia, 1989

                      Love and the method of hypothesis

 

            The Israel Philosophy Conference, Bar-Ilan University, 1990

                      Grace, justice and weakness of the will: Religion and philosophy in Maimonides (Hebrew)

           

            The Center for Literary Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1990: Literature and Moral Philosophy

                      Derrida’s drug and Plato’s antidote: Socratic dialogue as moral philosophy (Invited paper)

 

            Second International Conference on Greek Philosophy. Samos, 1990: The Philosophy of Socrates

                      ‘To me, Callicles, he seems exceedingly in earnest’: On taking Socratic irony seriously

 

            Université Paris-XII: Pour et contre Platon, 1990

                      Le parricide déguisé: Platon contre Parménide

 

            Conférence Permanente Méditerranéenne pour la Coopération Internationale: Platone e le Società del Mondo Mediterraneo: Lo Stato di Diritto e lo Diritto dello StatoTrieste, 1991

                      The ideal state — philosophical or prophetic?

 

             World Association for Educational Research: 11th International Congress. Jerusalem, 1993): The Role and Place of the Humanities in Education for the World of the 21st Century

                      On humanism

 

             Universidade de São Paulo

                      O  Menon como introdução à filosofia de Platão

 

             The Eighteenth Conference of the Israel Historical Society: Education and History. Jerusalem, 1994

                      Plato: Education as the development of reason

 

             Seventh International Conference on Greek Philosophy:  The Theory and Philosophy of Logos. Samos, 1995

                      The private and public logos

 

             IV Symposium Platonicum: The Timaeus. Granada, 1995

                      Freedom and education in the Timaeus (Plenary lecture)

 

             International Conference on Education and Change. Pretoria, 1995

                      Is education for pluralism compatible with real disagreement?

 

             XXVIa Semana Brasileira de Filosofia: Platão e o problema educacional. Universidade de Brasília, 1996

                      I. Do psicológico ao lógico

                      II. Ironia e maiêutica

                      III. A virtude popular

 

             UNESCO: Philosophie et democracie en EuropeUniversity of Sophia, 1996

                      The contribution of the study of philosophy in high-schools to education for democracy (Invited lecture)

 

             Eighth International Conference on Greek Philosophy: Plato’s Political Philosophy. Samos, 1996

                      Plato on the violence of reason

 

             The Annual Conference of the Association for the Promotion of Classical Studies in  Israel. Jerusalem, 1997

                      Plato against tragedy

 

             First International Conference of the South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities: Plato’s Philosophy of Education and Its Relevance to Contemporary Society. Pretoria, 1997

                      Plato and modern education

 

             Ninth International Conference on Greek Philosophy: Philosophy and Medicine. Samos, 1997

                      Plato: Diseases of the soul, disease of the body

 

             Universidad de Buenos Aires. Cátedra Martin Buber. 1997

                      Filósofos y profetas

 

             Direitos Humanos no Limiar do Século XXI: Os judeus. Universidade de São Paulo, 1997

                      Direitos e o conceito de pessoa moral: As raízes judias

 

             Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy: Paideia: Philosophy Educating Humanity. Boston, 1998

                      Plato on education as the development of reason

 

             V Symposium Platonicum. Toronto, 1998

                      Euthydemus’ philosophy of language

 

             Education and History. Jerusalem, 1999

                      Plato: Education as the development of reason (Hebrew)

 

             Boston University, 1999

                      Maimonides on grace and justice (Invited lecture)

 

             International Congress on Philosophy in Schools. Brasília, 1999

                      A problemática comunidade de investigação: Sócrates e Kant contra Lipman e Dewey

 

             XI International Conference on Greek Philosophy: Greek Philosophy and the Arts. Samos, 1999

                      Plato against tragedy

 

             Peking University, 1999

                      How to read a platonic dialogue (Invited lecture)

 

             Nanjing University, 1999

                      How to read a platonic dialogue (Invited lecture)

 

            Internationale Akademie für Philosophie, Liechtenstein, 2000: New images of Plato

                      New images of Plato

           

             VI Symposium Platonicum. Jerusalem, 2001

                      Pleasure and responsibility in Plato’s Laws

 

             Original Cultures, Peking University. Lanzhou, 2001

                      The Greek and Hebrew views

 

             The Metaphysics of Plato and Aristotle. St. Louis, 2002

                    ‘Things worth wondering at’: On Sandra Peterson’s Parmenides (Invited paper)

 

            Universidade de Porto Alegre, Brazil, 2003: As interfaces de Platão na história  

                      Platão contra o atomismo lógico

 

            The XXI World Congress of Philosophy, Instanbul, 2003

                      The two faces of Platonic knowledge

 

            The Czech International Plato Society, Prague, 2003: Parmenides

                      The conditions of knowledge in Plato’s Parmenides

 

            XIII International Council of Philosophical Inquiry with Children

                      Jerusalem, 2007

                      Some philosophical implications of Philosophy for Children

 

            Universidade de São Paulo, 2007

                      Filósofos e profetas

 

            Universidade da Paraíba, João Pessoa, Brasil, 2007

                      Como ler um diálogo platônico

 

            Universidade do Rio Grande do Norte,  Natal, Brasil, 2007

                      Parmênides de Platão

 

            Tokyo University, Tokyo, 2010

                      How to read a platonic dialogue

                      The structure of Plato’s Parmenides

 

            University of Coimbra, Coimbra 2012

                      The ethical dimension of Plato’s Parmenides

 

          First Latin American Area Conference of the International Plato Society

X International Archai Seminar: Plato´s styles and characters: between literature and philosophyBrasília 2012

                    Beyond language and literature

 

          X Symposium platonicum, Pisa 2013

          What Socrates learned from Aristophanes (and what he left behind)

 

 

8. Conference organization

 

            (2000) New Images of Plato, Internationale Akademie für Philosophie, Lichtenstein

 

            (2001) VI Symposium Platonicum, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem